"Kent McManis has been in the Native American arts and crafts business for over twenty years. He began collecting when his father bought him his first kachina doll at age three. A few years later he was given his first fetishes by a trader friend of the family. But it was his wife Laurie McManis who got him truly interested in fetishes twenty years ago and encouraged creating their own collection, which now includes several hundred. Kemt amd Laurie own Grey Dog Trading Co. in Tucson, Arizona."