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Ammonite Fossil
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact112.03.1016
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- mineral
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1016
- Description
- An ammonite that is in quite good shape except that the tail is missing. There is no parts of the rock attached to it.
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- Title
- Ammonite Fossil
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- mineral
- Dimensions
- 4.5 cm
- Description
- An ammonite that is in quite good shape except that the tail is missing. There is no parts of the rock attached to it.
- Subject
- prehistory
- paleontology
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1978
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1016
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Bludgeon Hammerhead
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.06.1012
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- mineral
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.1012
- Description
- An oval shaped rock with an indentation around middle to secure a band.
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- Title
- Bludgeon Hammerhead
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- mineral
- Dimensions
- 11.1 cm
- Description
- An oval shaped rock with an indentation around middle to secure a band.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- warfare
- Credit
- Gift of Joe A. Brewster, Banff, 1980
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.1012
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- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- mineral
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.1009
- Description
- a large stone with an indentation around it to attach thong.
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- Title
- Clubhead
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- mineral
- Dimensions
- 10.5 x 15.0 cm
- Description
- a large stone with an indentation around it to attach thong.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- warfare
- Credit
- Gift of Unknown, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.1009
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Collection Sherd
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact111.01.0002%20a-g
- Date
- 1700 – 1900
- Material
- clay; glaze
- Catalogue Number
- 111.01.0002 a-g
- Description
- Collection of pottery sherds.a) bright blue/cobalt glaze (7.9 cm x 7.5 cm x 4.5 cm) - remnant from the base and side of a very thick pot; base has trimmed wide foot and shows moulded relief rising from crackled glaze; outside of shard fully glazed with triangular shape showing clay inside where gla…
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- Title
- Collection Sherd
- Date
- 1700 – 1900
- Material
- clay; glaze
- Description
- Collection of pottery sherds.a) bright blue/cobalt glaze (7.9 cm x 7.5 cm x 4.5 cm) - remnant from the base and side of a very thick pot; base has trimmed wide foot and shows moulded relief rising from crackled glaze; outside of shard fully glazed with triangular shape showing clay inside where glaze was not applied; one edge of side is smooth and glazed forming a finished edge; other edges rough where broken. b) bright blue cobalt glaze (6.5 cm x 4.0 cm x 2.0 cm) - almost rectangular thick sherd; slightly curved and unglazed on inside.c) same as b, possible same vessel (5.5 cm x 5.0 cm x 2.0 cm) - one edge glazed (possibly rim) and bleeding slightly to inside.d) bright green (lead?) glaze (4.0 cm x 3.0 cm x 1.5 cm) - rhombus shape; broken obliquely through thickness to be very thick at one end and thin at the other e) bright aqua glaze (3.5 cm x 2.0 cm x 1.5 cm) - small triangular sherd, slightly curved and glazed on inside with outside rough and unglazed. f) dull turquoise glaze (5.0 cm x 2.0 cm x 1.7 cm) - small triangular shape with moulded relief-glaze covered surface on one face, smooth glazed surface on opposite face.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 111.01.0002 a-g
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Descriptions des Alpes Pennines et Rhetiennes
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue466
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1781
- Author
- Bourrit, Marc Theodore
- Publisher
- Geneve : Bonnant
- Call Number
- DQ823 B69 I
- Author
- Bourrit, Marc Theodore
- Publisher
- Geneve : Bonnant
- Published Date
- 1781
- Physical Description
- 247 pages
- Series
- Volume 1 of 2
- Call Number
- DQ823 B69 I
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Descriptions des Alpes Pennines et Rhetiennes
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14957
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1781
- Author
- Bourrit, Marc Theodore
- Publisher
- Geneve : Bonnant
- Call Number
- DQ823 B69 II
- Author
- Bourrit, Marc Theodore
- Publisher
- Geneve : Bonnant
- Published Date
- 1781
- Physical Description
- 285 pages
- Series
- Volume 2 of 2
- Call Number
- DQ823 B69 II
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Dissertationis physicae de itineribus per Helvetiam
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue2290
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1781-84
- Author
- Schinz, Salomone
- Publisher
- Turici : Ex Officina Gessnerina
- Call Number
- DQ22 S33 (3 parts)
- Author
- Schinz, Salomone
- Publisher
- Turici : Ex Officina Gessnerina
- Published Date
- 1781-84
- Call Number
- DQ22 S33 (3 parts)
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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- Date
- 1700 – 1875
- Material
- wood; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 108.05.0005
- Description
- Carved wooden peg doll with clothes pin-like very simple head and body. Arms and legs simply carved and hinged at elbows, knees, shoulders and hips, painted facial features, black hair and black shoes. Wearing ornately styled handmade clothes (Queen Anne period ?) of silk brocade, metallic lace and…
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- Title
- Doll
- Date
- 1700 – 1875
- Material
- wood; fibre
- Dimensions
- 70.5 x 10.0 cm
- Description
- Carved wooden peg doll with clothes pin-like very simple head and body. Arms and legs simply carved and hinged at elbows, knees, shoulders and hips, painted facial features, black hair and black shoes. Wearing ornately styled handmade clothes (Queen Anne period ?) of silk brocade, metallic lace and heavily embroidered silk which are tacked directly to body.
- Subject
- households
- toys
- children
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 108.05.0005
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Essai sur l'hygrometrie
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue2263
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1783
- Author
- Saussure, Horace Benedict de
- Publisher
- Neuchatel : Samuel Fauche
- Call Number
- QC915 S3
- Author
- Saussure, Horace Benedict de
- Publisher
- Neuchatel : Samuel Fauche
- Published Date
- 1783
- Call Number
- QC915 S3
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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- Date
- 1700 – 1900
- Material
- clay
- Catalogue Number
- 101.02.0009
- Description
- A small, white clay representation of a conical turret roof, broken off about 2.0 cm below eave, texture of roof contains four rows of vertical, pointed tiles.
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- Title
- Finial
- Date
- 1700 – 1900
- Material
- clay
- Dimensions
- 5.5 cm
- Description
- A small, white clay representation of a conical turret roof, broken off about 2.0 cm below eave, texture of roof contains four rows of vertical, pointed tiles.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 101.02.0009
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Food Storage Jar
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.19.0045
- Date
- 1500 – 1600
- Material
- ceramic
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0045
- Description
- Hand thrown, flat based, urn shaped jar with neck diameter of 7.0 cm. Initially glazed with thin, dark brown glaze, then over glazed with thicker dark brown, impurities and pitting visible. Four, affixed, coil built loops at shoulder, only one of them having an opening. Red Morse label inside rim …
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- Title
- Food Storage Jar
- Date
- 1500 – 1600
- Material
- ceramic
- Dimensions
- 20.4 x 16.2 cm
- Description
- Hand thrown, flat based, urn shaped jar with neck diameter of 7.0 cm. Initially glazed with thin, dark brown glaze, then over glazed with thicker dark brown, impurities and pitting visible. Four, affixed, coil built loops at shoulder, only one of them having an opening. Red Morse label inside rim says "Shigaraki Omi 300 years".
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0045
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Helveticus sive Itinera Alpina Tria
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue2287
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1708
- Author
- Scheuchzer, Jean Jacob
- Publisher
- London : Henry Clements
- Call Number
- DQ22 S34
- Author
- Scheuchzer, Jean Jacob
- Publisher
- London : Henry Clements
- Published Date
- 1708
- Notes
- Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library
- Call Number
- DQ22 S34
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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- Date
- 1700 – 1850
- Material
- ceramic
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0040
- Description
- Hand thrown, flat based vessel with 2.2 diameter neck and an affixed top handle. Glaze transparent mottled dark green with blue streaking, blue caused by small amount of cobalt. Glaze mottling possibly from heavy ash, wood, firing. 7.5 cm. crack on bottom, probably occured during firing. Glaze …
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- Title
- Jug
- Date
- 1700 – 1850
- Material
- ceramic
- Dimensions
- 24.0 x 20.5 cm
- Description
- Hand thrown, flat based vessel with 2.2 diameter neck and an affixed top handle. Glaze transparent mottled dark green with blue streaking, blue caused by small amount of cobalt. Glaze mottling possibly from heavy ash, wood, firing. 7.5 cm. crack on bottom, probably occured during firing. Glaze residue on bottom rough surface.
- Subject
- households
- Mingei
- Edward S. Morse
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0040
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- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1001
- Description
- a small rust coloured meteorite with the top missing exposing the grey metals inside.
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- Title
- Meteorite
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- metal
- Description
- a small rust coloured meteorite with the top missing exposing the grey metals inside.
- Subject
- prehistory
- geology
- Credit
- Gift of Forrest (Pat) Oliver Brewster, Banff, 1966
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1001
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Moulding Segment
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact101.02.0010
- Date
- 1700 – 1900
- Material
- clay
- Catalogue Number
- 101.02.0010
- Description
- A small, flat, edge segment of reddish-brown clay representing, in bas-relief, the miniature head of a Hindu god, rest of figure broken off, features of typical Asian cast with turreted headdress and halo behind, floral arch around edge of fragment.
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- Title
- Moulding Segment
- Date
- 1700 – 1900
- Material
- clay
- Dimensions
- 2.0 x 3.7 x 4.5 cm
- Description
- A small, flat, edge segment of reddish-brown clay representing, in bas-relief, the miniature head of a Hindu god, rest of figure broken off, features of typical Asian cast with turreted headdress and halo behind, floral arch around edge of fragment.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 101.02.0010
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Nouvelle description generale et particuliere des glaciers
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue467
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1785
- Author
- Bourrit, Marc Theodore
- Publisher
- Geneve : Barde
- Edition
- Nouvelle ed
- Call Number
- QE576 B69
- Author
- Bourrit, Marc Theodore
- Edition
- Nouvelle ed
- Publisher
- Geneve : Barde
- Published Date
- 1785
- Physical Description
- 3v
- Subjects
- Alps
- Call Number
- QE576 B69
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Observations faites dans les Pyrenees pour servir de suite a des observations
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue2092
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1789
- Author
- Ramond de Carbonnieres, Louis Francose Elisabeth
- Publisher
- Paris : Belin
- Call Number
- DC611 P988 R34
- Publisher
- Paris : Belin
- Published Date
- 1789
- Call Number
- DC611 P988 R34
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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- Date
- 1082
- Material
- plastic; vinyl
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.0155
- Description
- Blue plastic/vinyl pennant with a white border. Printed on the front is a logo for the “FEDERACION DE ANDINISMO DE CHILE” which is also spelled out down the length of the pennant. In English, it is the Federation of Mountaineering of Chile.
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- Title
- Pennant Flag
- Date
- 1082
- Material
- plastic; vinyl
- Dimensions
- 16.3 x 43.4 cm
- Description
- Blue plastic/vinyl pennant with a white border. Printed on the front is a logo for the “FEDERACION DE ANDINISMO DE CHILE” which is also spelled out down the length of the pennant. In English, it is the Federation of Mountaineering of Chile.
- Credit
- Gift of Peter Spear, 2017
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.0155
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Petrified Wood
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact112.03.1012
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1012
- Description
- A piece of petrified wood. It is a portion of a large piece broken at both ends.
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- Title
- Petrified Wood
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 12.1 x 15.3 x 16.0 cm
- Description
- A piece of petrified wood. It is a portion of a large piece broken at both ends.
- Subject
- pre history
- paleontology
- botany
- Credit
- Gift of Bill de Haan, Canmore, 1970
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1012
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Sketch of a tour through Switzerland
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1697
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1787
- Author
- Martyn, Thomas
- Publisher
- London : For G. Kearsley
- Call Number
- DQ22 M37
- Author
- Martyn, Thomas
- Publisher
- London : For G. Kearsley
- Published Date
- 1787
- Call Number
- DQ22 M37
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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