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Rena Point Bolton is a hereditary carrier for the Wolf people. Her mother was Sto:lo and her father Nlaka'pamux from the Lytton area. At the time that Rena Point Bolton was born, the potlatch was outlawed. Beginning at the age of three, her grandmother taught her much of the traditional Salish arts and crafts, including Salish weaving, blanket weaving and basket weaving. She currently resides in Terrace BC with her husband, Tsimshian artist, Clifford Bolton. She has lived in Terrace since 1970, and it was there that she taught herself to weave baskets with cedar in the Tsimshian tradition. She has been featured in the video "Hands of History" and her baskets and weavings are in the permanent collections of the Canadian National Museum of Man, the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Honolulu Museum of Fine Arts.

Born: 1927