Cubby Martin

Cubby Martin is a proud Tlingit. He is Kagwaantaan, which is the Eagle and Wolf family. Cubby first began learning to weave from Richard Welch. Richard was taught by Anna Jefferson, who is one of the Master Weavers from the Lummi nation. Cubby and his mother, Agnes Watson Martin of Haines, Alaska then joined a coastal group (Kuteeya) and began weaving traditional hats and baskets. Cubby adapted his craft and started doing contemporary styles of hats. He learned to pull cedar from other weavers. Cubby further increased his knowledge by taking a class from Anna Jefferson. The people who most inspired him to learn weaving and basketry were his mother, Agnes Watson Martin, Pete Barril and the Kuteeya group leader - Misty Hammontree.