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- Date
- 1910 – 1925
- Material
- bark; quill; grass
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0266
- Description
- A flat-based, straight-sided birchbark box with smooth, flush, overfitting lid. Walls decorated with pink and white porcupine quills, and walls of lid similarly decorated. The top of the lid is decorated with an overlapped pattern of brown and white quills in a floral motif, with "stamens" of green…
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- Title
- Trinket Box
- Date
- 1910 – 1925
- Material
- bark; quill; grass
- Dimensions
- 6.2 x 7.5 cm
- Description
- A flat-based, straight-sided birchbark box with smooth, flush, overfitting lid. Walls decorated with pink and white porcupine quills, and walls of lid similarly decorated. The top of the lid is decorated with an overlapped pattern of brown and white quills in a floral motif, with "stamens" of green quills bursting from the centre. About 5% of the quills are loose at one end, some quills lost. Thread which binds grass to rim of lid has frayed severely. Box contains six quartz crystals.
- Subject
- households
- Indigenous
- decorative
- quillwork
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0266
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- Date
- 1890 – 1910
- Material
- ceramic
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.1008
- Description
- white and green, ex Banff Sanitarium Hotel, white, band of sunflowers and waterlilies against scalloped green background,"Sanitarium Hotel/Banff" written in crest (belt in oval shape stamped on shoulder above band, small simple shape with slightly ribbed sides and high shoulders closing in to wide …
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- Title
- Vase
- Date
- 1890 – 1910
- Material
- ceramic
- Dimensions
- 12.2 cm
- Description
- white and green, ex Banff Sanitarium Hotel, white, band of sunflowers and waterlilies against scalloped green background,"Sanitarium Hotel/Banff" written in crest (belt in oval shape stamped on shoulder above band, small simple shape with slightly ribbed sides and high shoulders closing in to wide mouth and small undulating lip, trademark crest stamped on base noting it is "porcelain opaque"
- Subject
- institutions
- Banff Sanitarium
- Dr. Brett
- Credit
- Gift of Forrest (Pat) Oliver Brewster, Banff, 1966
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.1008
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