Northwest Coast Indigenous Artist

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Kwakwaka’wakw
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Mark Henderson ©1999 Mark Henderson ©1996 Mark Henderson ©1995 Mark Henderson ©1995
Mark Henderson ©1999 Mark Henderson ©2000 Mark Henderson ©2008 Mark Henderson ©2008
Mark Henderson is from the Wewaikum Band of the Kwakwaka'wakw people at Campbell River, B.C. He was born in 1953 and is deeply involved in the art and culture of his community. At the age of eleven the artist began painting and was taught by his father Sam Henderson, who was originally from Blunden Harbour. In the summer Henderson works as a commercial fisherman off the West Coast of Vancouver Island, and in the winter he paints. He has a unique style related to the old art of the Kwakwaka'wakw people, noticeably seen in the carvings of Mungo Martin, Henry Speck, Willie Seaweed, and in the numerous carvings in and around Alert Bay, B.C.

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