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Hart lives in both
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to do much of his own carving. He began his work with Reid by putting the finishing details on
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and inaugurated in 2018. Another of Hart's works, a totem pole called the
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Thom gives a birthdate of 1954, while the
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A 1995 wood sculpture that Hart considers to be his equivalent of a
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Past
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247:Bill Reid
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