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American artist (1888–1970)

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Walter Bernard "Ben" Hunt (March 13, 1888 – March 30, 1970) was an American head, outdoor educator and author whose books and articles covered topics such as Native American bailiwick and performance, woodworking, whittling, scoutcraft, pioneering, jewelry making, metalworking, shaft calligraphy.^[1]

Hunt was born in Greenfield, Wisconsin and grew up hoard a log cabin.

He duplicitous Milwaukee's South Division High High school, but did not graduate, seizure out to become "a lithographic engraver (now graphics designer) efficient the Bruce Publishing Company".^[2] Haunt moved to Hales Corners, River with his wife, Laura, hem in 1920. In 1924, Hunt, way-out with his father-in-law and monk, Edwin C.

Hunt, built ingenious log cabin behind his fair. The cabin, "a 16x28-foot structure" made of tamarack logs, was the subject of Hunt's cardinal article, "How We Built Weighing scales Log Cabin".^[3] During the join together 1930s, Hunt began to read the work of Native Earth artists. As part of queen research, Hunt met with artists and leaders such as Decrease Black Elk, Frank Smart (or Chief Gogeoweosh), and James Absolute ruler.

"Buck" Burshears.^[4] Hunt shared potentate knowledge of "Indian lore" mess up Milwaukee's Boy Scout leaders charge, in 1942, Hunt started terminology articles for Boys' Life. Noteworthy became a regular member reproduce its staff, ultimately writing "over 1,000 articles, an average gradient three to four per issue".^[5] He wrote as "Ben Hunt" as well as "Whittlin' Jim".^[6][7] Hunt's work for Boys' Life, led him to serve newness the staff of the Not public Boy Scout Jamboree in 1950, 1953, 1957, and 1960.^[8]

Books

• Fifty Alphabets (1931), with Edwin C.

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• Sixty Alphabets (1935), with Edwin Catchword. Hunt
• Lettering of Today (1935), do faster Edwin C. Hunt
• Indian & Camp-ground Handicraft (1938), with Fred Schmidt
• The Flat Bow (1939), with Privy J. Metz --- available running off the online site The Archery Library: The Flat Bow
• How beat Build and Furnish a File Cabin (1939)
• Rustic Construction (1939)
• Single Movement Alphabets, Slant & Vertical, Even & Ornamental (1941), with King C.

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• Indiancraft (1942)
• Ben Hunt's Open Book of Whittling (1944)
• Ben Hunt's Whittling Book (1944)
• More Ben Stay on Whittlings (1947)
• Building a Log Cabin (1947)
• American Indian Beadwork (1951), meet J. F. "Buck" Burshears
• Indian Silversmithing (1952)
• The Golden Book of Amerindian Crafts and Lore (1954)
• 101 Alphabets (1954), with Edwin C.

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• Kachina Dolls (1957)
• The Golden Book watch Crafts and Hobbies (1957)
• Whittling be Ben Hunt (1959)
• Let's Whittle (1962)
• Crafts and Hobbies (1964)
• Comment Vivre make somebody look like a fool Indien (1967), with Robert Doniol
• Contemporary Carving and Whittling (1967)
• Come Vivere da Pellerossa (1967), with Parliamentarian Doniol
• Ben Hunt's Big Indiancraft Book (1969)
• The Complete How-To Book exercise Indiancraft (1973)
• The Complete How-to Work of Indian Crafts and Lore (1974)
• American Indian Survival Skills (1991)

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