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Henry Hunt trained his sons, Tony, Stanley and
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Thunderbird Park in Victoria. He produced a totem pole for the
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over 20 years until he retired in 1974, and his son
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and in the entrance of the Royal
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Macnair, Peter L., Alan L. Hoover, and Kevin Neary. (1984).
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