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Artist
William Bonnetplume (1946 – 2001, Canadian)
Date
prior to 1977
Medium
oil on canvas board
Catalogue Number
BpW.02.02
Description
General colour: blue with green, yellow, brown. A figure, sled and team of four dogs fills lower right quarter of picture. A broad crack in the frozen lake runs up from the center at the bottom and disappears into the horizon of trees. The far shore and mountains beyond start two thirds up the pict…
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Artist
William Bonnetplume (1946 – 2001, Canadian)
Title
Aklavik, N.W.T.
Date
prior to 1977
Medium
oil on canvas board
Dimensions
35.6 x 45.6 cm
Description
General colour: blue with green, yellow, brown. A figure, sled and team of four dogs fills lower right quarter of picture. A broad crack in the frozen lake runs up from the center at the bottom and disappears into the horizon of trees. The far shore and mountains beyond start two thirds up the picture.
Subject
animal, dogteam
figure, man
man, Inuit
landscape, winter
Credit
Purchased from William Bonnetplume, 1978
Catalogue Number
BpW.02.02
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Artist
Colleen Campbell (1945 – , Canadian )
Date
1979
Medium
graphite; watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
CmC.03.01
Description
Located in the center and filling most of the image area is an Inuit dancer. He stands with his back toward the viewer. His tunic is a yellow colour and he holds a drum stick in his right hand. He has medium length straight hair depicted in graphite and a colourful belt tied around his waist. His t…
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Artist
Colleen Campbell (1945 – , Canadian )
Title
Bear Dancer I
Date
1979
Medium
graphite; watercolour on paper
Dimensions
105.0 x 75.5 cm
Description
Located in the center and filling most of the image area is an Inuit dancer. He stands with his back toward the viewer. His tunic is a yellow colour and he holds a drum stick in his right hand. He has medium length straight hair depicted in graphite and a colourful belt tied around his waist. His tunic has fringes at the sides and bottom and he has a decorative strip around the top of his mukluk.
Subject
figure
male
Inuit
Credit
Gift of Dora Helen Mackie, Calgary, 1998
Catalogue Number
CmC.03.01
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Artist
Colleen Campbell (1945 – , Canadian )
Date
1979
Medium
graphite; watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
CmC.03.02
Description
Located in the center and filling most of the image area is an Inuit dancer. He stands with his side toward the viewer. His tunic is a yellow colour and he holds a drum stick in his right hand high above his head. He has medium length straight hair depicted in graphite and a colourful belt tied aro…
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Artist
Colleen Campbell (1945 – , Canadian )
Title
Bear Dancer II
Date
1979
Medium
graphite; watercolour on paper
Dimensions
105.0 x 75.5 cm
Description
Located in the center and filling most of the image area is an Inuit dancer. He stands with his side toward the viewer. His tunic is a yellow colour and he holds a drum stick in his right hand high above his head. He has medium length straight hair depicted in graphite and a colourful belt tied around his waist. His tunic has fringes at the sides and bottom and he has a decorative strip around the top of his mukluk. He is holding a large round drum in his left hand.
Subject
figure
male
Inuit
Credit
Gift of Dora Helen Mackie, Calgary, 1998
Catalogue Number
CmC.03.02
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Artist
Isa Kasudluak (1917 – 1998, Canadian)
Date
1955 – 1960
Catalogue Number
UnK.06.02
Description
Small stone bird carving. Small white circle carved for eye and slit as mouth.
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Artist
Isa Kasudluak (1917 – 1998, Canadian)
Title
Bird
Date
1955 – 1960
Dimensions
5.0 x 5.0 x 9.4 cm
Description
Small stone bird carving. Small white circle carved for eye and slit as mouth.
Subject
animal
bird
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
UnK.06.02
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Date
1972 – 1974
Material
bone; sinew; antler
Catalogue Number
108.01.0009
Description
Stocky bone with ball socket at either end, three holes drilled into one end, small, pointed antler has been attached by sinew to large bone. "Canada Eskimo Art" and $12.00" stickers removed, also label in Catharine's writing saying "game 1974 from Resolute Bay or originally Pond Inlet.
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Title
Bone Game
Date
1972 – 1974
Material
bone; sinew; antler
Dimensions
6.0 x 8.0 x 16.5 cm
Description
Stocky bone with ball socket at either end, three holes drilled into one end, small, pointed antler has been attached by sinew to large bone. "Canada Eskimo Art" and $12.00" stickers removed, also label in Catharine's writing saying "game 1974 from Resolute Bay or originally Pond Inlet.
Subject
households
pastime
entertainment
Inuit
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
108.01.0009
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Canadian Eskimo Art

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20110
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1959
Author
Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources
Publisher
Ottawa : Queen's Printer
Call Number
06.1 D34c
Author
Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources
Publisher
Ottawa : Queen's Printer
Published Date
1959
Physical Description
40 pages : illustrations (some color) 1 color map ; 27 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Baffin Island
Inuit
Art
Subjects
Art, Canadian
Abstract
Pertains to a publication showcasing artistic pieces from a variety of Inuit artists in Canada. The publication provides images of Inuit carvings, as well as other various forms of artistic expression. While the publication seeks to tell the story of the art, it is lacking Inuit voices and thus carries an innate bias.
Notes
design and layout by James A. Houston ; photographs by Bert Beaver and the National Film Board
Accession Number
3069 a
Call Number
06.1 D34c
Collection
Archives Library
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Artist
James McLaren Nicoll (1892 – 1986, Canadian)
Date
1971 – 1972
Medium
ink on paper
Catalogue Number
NiJ.04.01-NiJ.04.02
Description
NiJ.04.01 is Nuliyuk, the Eskimo Goddess is a dry process print of a drawing, signed vertically on left J.Nicoll, 1971. NiJ.04.02 is Old Guild House of the Wool Weavers, Florence; engraving print, signed brc. J.Nicoll 1972. Both were Xmas cards sent to Catharine by the artist.
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Artist
James McLaren Nicoll (1892 – 1986, Canadian)
Title
Christmas Prints
Date
1971 – 1972
Medium
ink on paper
Dimensions
15.0 x 14.5 cm
Description
NiJ.04.01 is Nuliyuk, the Eskimo Goddess is a dry process print of a drawing, signed vertically on left J.Nicoll, 1971. NiJ.04.02 is Old Guild House of the Wool Weavers, Florence; engraving print, signed brc. J.Nicoll 1972. Both were Xmas cards sent to Catharine by the artist.
Subject
religious, Christmas
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
NiJ.04.01-NiJ.04.02
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Date
1977
Material
metal; fibre
Catalogue Number
102.04.0348
Description
Square dish with upturned, rounded corners. Blue enamel border and circular black centre with white, enamel Inuit hunter with spear. Bottom also blue enamel and felt-covered in gray, marked in enamel on bottom "CA-CN(?)...Canada "77".
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Title
Decorative Plate
Date
1977
Material
metal; fibre
Dimensions
0.8 x 7.7 x 7.7 cm
Description
Square dish with upturned, rounded corners. Blue enamel border and circular black centre with white, enamel Inuit hunter with spear. Bottom also blue enamel and felt-covered in gray, marked in enamel on bottom "CA-CN(?)...Canada "77".
Subject
households
decorative
Inuit
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
102.04.0348
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Artist
Peter Pitseolak (1902 – 1973, Canadian)
Date
1970
Medium
stonecut on paper
Catalogue Number
PiP.04.01
Description
A figure clad in a parka, holding two sticks stands in the lower two thirds of the picture. Above hangs a large round drum.
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Artist
Peter Pitseolak (1902 – 1973, Canadian)
Title
Drum Dancer
Date
1970
Medium
stonecut on paper
Dimensions
52.6 x 29.7 cm
Description
A figure clad in a parka, holding two sticks stands in the lower two thirds of the picture. Above hangs a large round drum.
Subject
figure
male
Credit
Gift of Unknown, 1968
Catalogue Number
PiP.04.01
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Artist
Syollie Amituk (1936 – 1986, Canadian)
Date
1955 – 1965
Catalogue Number
ArS.06.01
Description
A well defined duck is squatting on a rock. Its head is slightly turned to the right, breast and back feathers are indicated with long thin lines, the wings lay back with minimal definition.
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Artist
Syollie Amituk (1936 – 1986, Canadian)
Title
Duck
Date
1955 – 1965
Dimensions
15.5 x 7 x 19 cm
Description
A well defined duck is squatting on a rock. Its head is slightly turned to the right, breast and back feathers are indicated with long thin lines, the wings lay back with minimal definition.
Subject
Animal, duck
bird
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
ArS.06.01
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Artist
Devidee
Date
c. 1960
Catalogue Number
DvD.06.01
Description
Flat based duck with long neck and collar under neck; rough textured soapstone on right side; note shaping of bill; scratched syllabics on base and 155530 and detached tag in reference file indicates Devidee Show artiste, Origine Inoucdjouac (Port Harrison) and identification 155530 duck canard.
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Artist
Devidee
Title
Duck
Date
c. 1960
Dimensions
7.0 x 3.8 x 9.0 cm
Description
Flat based duck with long neck and collar under neck; rough textured soapstone on right side; note shaping of bill; scratched syllabics on base and 155530 and detached tag in reference file indicates Devidee Show artiste, Origine Inoucdjouac (Port Harrison) and identification 155530 duck canard.
Subject
bird
duck
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
DvD.06.01
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Elik, and other stories of the MacKenzie Eskimos

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24943
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1970
Author
Schwarz, Herbert T.
Ohoveluk, Mona
Publisher
Toronto, McCelland and Stewart
Call Number
06.1 Sc1e
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Author
Schwarz, Herbert T.
Ohoveluk, Mona
Responsibility
Herbert T. Schwarz (author)
Mona Ohoveluk (illustrator)
Publisher
Toronto, McCelland and Stewart
Published Date
1970
Physical Description
79 pages illustrations, portraits
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Art
Inuit
Abstract
Pertains to Inuit stories with associated illustrations by Mona Ohoveluk, and highlights Inuit story tellers
Contents
Part One:
Introduction: Inside the Arctic Circle
The MacKenzie Land
The Northern Lights People
Elik
Elik, the Far Seeing One
Akaluk and the Stolen Soul of Ugpik
The Origin of the White Whale
The Rave and the Whale
The Whale Hunt
The Great Eskimo Rally and Fort McPherson
Part Two:
Story-tellers of Old
Alik Aluhuk Stefansson, Inuvik, NWT
Elizabeth Blake and William Firth, Fort McPherson, NWT
Felix Nuyaviak, Tuktoyaktuk, NWT
Archie (Headpoint) Erigaktuk, Aklavik, NWT
Susie Tiktalik, Sach Harbour, Banks Island, NWT
Kenneth Peeloolook, Inuvik, NWT
Jessie Olorgrak, Paulatuk, NWT
Acknowledgements
Dedication
Accession Number
2019.86
Call Number
06.1 Sc1e
Collection
Archives Library
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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1971
Author
Houston, James
Publisher
[Don Mills, Ontario] : Longman Canada
Call Number
06.1 H81e
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Author
Houston, James
Responsibility
James Houston
Publisher
[Don Mills, Ontario] : Longman Canada
Published Date
1971
Physical Description
110 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 26 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Baffin Island
Inuit
Art
Subjects
Prints
Abstract
Pertains to the art and inspiration of Canadian artist, James Houston. Houston was an acclaimed designer, educator, filmmaker, children’s author and artist prior to his passing in 2005. He helped to encourage the recognition of Inuit art, as well as introduced printmaking to the Inuit community. The publication covers the journey to printmaking, and the ways he helped encourage a new form of creative expression in various Inuit communities.
Notes
English and French text on same pages in 2 columns.
Accession Number
3069 a
Call Number
06.1 H81e
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
URL provides more information on the Houston families collaborative efforts with Inuit Peoples.
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Date
1950 – 1970
Material
wood
Catalogue Number
107.01.0160
Description
A spool like figure of an Inuit woman wearing a white anorak trimmed with green and red stripes, green mittens, skirt and hood with bright coloured polka dots. Grey green face with features painted on, very brightly coloured. Paper sticker has been torn from base, hole drilled through bottom.
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Title
Female Figurine
Date
1950 – 1970
Material
wood
Dimensions
5.4 x 2.0 cm
Description
A spool like figure of an Inuit woman wearing a white anorak trimmed with green and red stripes, green mittens, skirt and hood with bright coloured polka dots. Grey green face with features painted on, very brightly coloured. Paper sticker has been torn from base, hole drilled through bottom.
Subject
households
decorative
miniatures
figure
female
Inuit
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
107.01.0160
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Artist
Daniel Aculiak (1944 – , Canadian)
Date
c. 1964
Catalogue Number
AcU.06.02
Description
grey stone sculpture of a fish. Fish has incised gills, fins,and facial features. Illegible writing (possibly another language) engraved on the base.
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Artist
Daniel Aculiak (1944 – , Canadian)
Title
Fish
Date
c. 1964
Dimensions
3.5 x 2.3 x 11.0 cm
Description
grey stone sculpture of a fish. Fish has incised gills, fins,and facial features. Illegible writing (possibly another language) engraved on the base.
Subject
fish
aquatic
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
AcU.06.02
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Date
1970 – 1980
Material
wood; bone; sinew
Catalogue Number
104.05.0055
Description
Long flat simply carved wooden shaft tapering to point at end. Two thin sticks of bone lashed to either side of other end with sinew, and long needle of bone drilled into end of wood between with small bone barbs protruding from inside tips of flat bones toward point of central bone needle.
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Title
Fish Spear
Date
1970 – 1980
Material
wood; bone; sinew
Dimensions
1.1 x 5.5 x 51.7 cm
Description
Long flat simply carved wooden shaft tapering to point at end. Two thin sticks of bone lashed to either side of other end with sinew, and long needle of bone drilled into end of wood between with small bone barbs protruding from inside tips of flat bones toward point of central bone needle.
Subject
fishing
Inuit
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
104.05.0055
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Artist
Kilopak
Date
1955 – 1965
Catalogue Number
KiL.06.01
Description
A full grown hawk is sitting with a fledgling under its breast. The wings of the hawk are well carved on the back, the right wing overlaps the left wing. Its head is turned slightly to the left. The fledgling has its mouth open, Also looking to the left. The fledgling is gray in appearance from the…
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Artist
Kilopak
Title
Hawk with Fledgling
Date
1955 – 1965
Dimensions
12 x 7 x 13 cm
Description
A full grown hawk is sitting with a fledgling under its breast. The wings of the hawk are well carved on the back, the right wing overlaps the left wing. Its head is turned slightly to the left. The fledgling has its mouth open, Also looking to the left. The fledgling is gray in appearance from the fine inscribing of the sculptor. The nest is well defined. Numerous cracks over all the soapstone.
Subject
bird, hawk
chick
fledgeling
nest
pair
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
KiL.06.01
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Artist
Josephie Pootagook (1887 – 1958, Canadian)
Date
1959
Medium
ink on paper
Catalogue Number
PtG.04.01
Description
Light blue background, igloo white lines takes up most of the picture; head and shoulders of a man with a knife in center in black;
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Artist
Josephie Pootagook (1887 – 1958, Canadian)
Title
Igloo Builder
Date
1959
Medium
ink on paper
Dimensions
25.5 x 48.3 cm
Description
Light blue background, igloo white lines takes up most of the picture; head and shoulders of a man with a knife in center in black;
Subject
man
igloo
ice;
Credit
Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
Catalogue Number
PtG.04.01
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Inuit Girl, Rankin Inlet

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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Date
1970
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.096
Description
Portrait of an Inuk girl.
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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Title
Inuit Girl, Rankin Inlet
Date
1970
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
25.4 x 30.3 cm
Description
Portrait of an Inuk girl.
Subject
portrait, female
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.096
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Inuit Girls Sleeping, Pangnirtung

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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Date
1970
Medium
oil on paper
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.213
Description
A small sketch of two girls lying in bed. The red blankets covering an imaginary bed are tucked underneath their necks. Their heads are turned to the side. Both of them have black hair. The background has been partially roughed in, in pencil on the bare canvas.
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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Title
Inuit Girls Sleeping, Pangnirtung
Date
1970
Medium
oil on paper
Dimensions
22.8 x 30.3 cm
Description
A small sketch of two girls lying in bed. The red blankets covering an imaginary bed are tucked underneath their necks. Their heads are turned to the side. Both of them have black hair. The background has been partially roughed in, in pencil on the bare canvas.
Subject
figure, group
female
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.213
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