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Trinket Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.0147
- Date
- 1920 – 1930
- Material
- grass; bark, cedar
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0147
- Description
- A round basket woven of natural materials, sea grass and cedar bark, with dyed grass eagles clutching an arrow flying around sides. The lid has the same eagle motif and a woven knob-like handle.
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- Title
- Trinket Basket
- Date
- 1920 – 1930
- Material
- grass; bark, cedar
- Dimensions
- 5.0 cm
- Description
- A round basket woven of natural materials, sea grass and cedar bark, with dyed grass eagles clutching an arrow flying around sides. The lid has the same eagle motif and a woven knob-like handle.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- households
- decorative
- crafts
- animals
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0147
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Trinket Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.0148
- Date
- 1920 – 1930
- Material
- grass
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0148
- Description
- A round, straight sided basket woven from natural coloured grass with dyed grass canoes alternating with birds in profile. The round, flat lid has same motif on top.
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- Title
- Trinket Basket
- Date
- 1920 – 1930
- Material
- grass
- Dimensions
- 5.0 cm
- Description
- A round, straight sided basket woven from natural coloured grass with dyed grass canoes alternating with birds in profile. The round, flat lid has same motif on top.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0148
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Trinket Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.0174
- Date
- 1925 – 1935
- Material
- bark; quill; grass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0174
- Description
- Lidded woodland birchbark box sewn together with thread, grass braided used for decoration at seams, floral motif on lid, approx. 15% quill loss.
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- Title
- Trinket Basket
- Date
- 1925 – 1935
- Material
- bark; quill; grass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 8.7 cm
- Description
- Lidded woodland birchbark box sewn together with thread, grass braided used for decoration at seams, floral motif on lid, approx. 15% quill loss.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0174
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Trinket Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.0175
- Date
- 1925 – 1935
- Material
- bark; quill; grass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0175
- Description
- Simple, well made, birchbark box with flush fitting lid. Decorated with quills in orange, green, and white geometric pattern on the lid.
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- Title
- Trinket Basket
- Date
- 1925 – 1935
- Material
- bark; quill; grass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 8.0 cm
- Description
- Simple, well made, birchbark box with flush fitting lid. Decorated with quills in orange, green, and white geometric pattern on the lid.
- Subject
- households
- Indigenous
- quillwork
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0175
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Trinket Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.0180
- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- bark; grass; fibre; quill
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0180
- Description
- A flat bottomed birchbark, cylindrical box with snug lid fitting flange. Walls are sturdy bark sewn and glued to base and both box and lid are lined with finer bark. Rim of box and lid are both ringed with grass sewn to them. Wall of box is quilled, quills extending over bottom to base. Lid is also…
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- Title
- Trinket Basket
- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- bark; grass; fibre; quill
- Dimensions
- 5.7 x 5.9 cm
- Description
- A flat bottomed birchbark, cylindrical box with snug lid fitting flange. Walls are sturdy bark sewn and glued to base and both box and lid are lined with finer bark. Rim of box and lid are both ringed with grass sewn to them. Wall of box is quilled, quills extending over bottom to base. Lid is also similarly almost completely covered with quill work, with dyed quills in red and yellow forming criss-cross pattern on bare birchbark, and quills in brown and cream filling in the rest of the area. Very nicely done.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- Indigenous
- crafts
- quillwork
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0180
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Trinket Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.0191
- Date
- 1930 – 1960
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0191
- Description
- Circular basketry box with lid. Brown fibre over natural (pale) frame. Some loose caning on selvages of lid. Flat base in beige, walls of brown with black, horizontal accent line in mid-wall and on wall of lid. Loose lattice weave.
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- Title
- Trinket Basket
- Date
- 1930 – 1960
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 7.0 x 12.0 cm
- Description
- Circular basketry box with lid. Brown fibre over natural (pale) frame. Some loose caning on selvages of lid. Flat base in beige, walls of brown with black, horizontal accent line in mid-wall and on wall of lid. Loose lattice weave.
- Subject
- Whyte home
- households
- miniatures
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0191
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Trinket Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.0265
- Date
- 1935 – 1945
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0265
- Description
- A flat-based, coil-constructed, lidless basket, open with no shoulders. Built on willow wands armature and a pattern of indigo and brown dyed overlays in patterns of stepped wedges in blue, crosses in brown.
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- Title
- Trinket Basket
- Date
- 1935 – 1945
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 7.5 x 24.0 cm
- Description
- A flat-based, coil-constructed, lidless basket, open with no shoulders. Built on willow wands armature and a pattern of indigo and brown dyed overlays in patterns of stepped wedges in blue, crosses in brown.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0265
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Trinket Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.0267
- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0267
- Description
- A flat-based, straight-sided basket with flush, almost flat lid which fits securely over straight rim. Basket is formed on a lattice of cedar root or bark which is frayed out to form vertical ribs, and then a delicate tight bird-cage with twining technique is used to build up the basket. Pattern of…
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- Title
- Trinket Basket
- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 3.4 x 5.8 cm
- Description
- A flat-based, straight-sided basket with flush, almost flat lid which fits securely over straight rim. Basket is formed on a lattice of cedar root or bark which is frayed out to form vertical ribs, and then a delicate tight bird-cage with twining technique is used to build up the basket. Pattern of deep purple, almost black, ducks spaced around basket above two parallel lines in burgundy. Top of basket lid is decorated with a "whirlpool” design radiating from a red eye in red, yellow, and green, terminating in a red ring which notches into the natural light lid; green and white alternating stitches at the ring connecting top to wall of basket lid.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0267
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Trinket Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.0268
- Date
- 1920 – 1940
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0268
- Description
- A flat-based, straight-sided basket with flush-fitting conical lid which terminates in a reverse topknot cap. The walls of the box are decorated with two thunderbirds, wings extended, and clasping each an arrow. These major design elements are in black. At the ends of the arrows are flying birds in…
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- Title
- Trinket Basket
- Date
- 1920 – 1940
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 7.0 x 7.0 cm
- Description
- A flat-based, straight-sided basket with flush-fitting conical lid which terminates in a reverse topknot cap. The walls of the box are decorated with two thunderbirds, wings extended, and clasping each an arrow. These major design elements are in black. At the ends of the arrows are flying birds in red. At the bottom limit of the wall is an orange band in three lines of twining, outlined by two lines of twining in purple, a design motif repeated on the lid, and the lid "topknot" is in red surmounting rings of green and yellow.
- Subject
- households
- Indigenous
- miniatures
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0268
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