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- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- skin; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.3018
- Description
- Buckskin drawstring bag with the head of a lynx as the bag with buckskin fringes stitched onto eyes, through nostrils and along mouth. The bag is lined with floral printed fabric.
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- Title
- Bag
- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- skin; fibre
- Dimensions
- 21.0 x 16.0 x 19.0 cm
- Description
- Buckskin drawstring bag with the head of a lynx as the bag with buckskin fringes stitched onto eyes, through nostrils and along mouth. The bag is lined with floral printed fabric.
- Subject
- Indigenous, Stoney
- animals, lynx
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.3018
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- Date
- 1950 – 1960
- Material
- skin
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0020
- Description
- A hide pouch with a small flap and long fringe around each side and along the bottom. The bag is decorated with green and white beads along the top edge, and a green and white beadwork diamond shape on the front.
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- Title
- Beaded Bag
- Date
- 1950 – 1960
- Material
- skin
- Dimensions
- 14.0 x 20.0 cm
- Description
- A hide pouch with a small flap and long fringe around each side and along the bottom. The bag is decorated with green and white beads along the top edge, and a green and white beadwork diamond shape on the front.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0020
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- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- skin; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.3010
- Description
- Soft drawstring bag, made out of black tail deer hide, with fringes along the sides and bottom. The bag is lined with floral printed cotton fabric. Top scalloped edge has red and light blue beading. One side of the bag has a 16.5x15.0 cm beaded design with a red edge and a light blue background…
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- Title
- Beaded Bag
- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- skin; glass
- Dimensions
- 19.0 x 47.0 cm
- Description
- Soft drawstring bag, made out of black tail deer hide, with fringes along the sides and bottom. The bag is lined with floral printed cotton fabric. Top scalloped edge has red and light blue beading. One side of the bag has a 16.5x15.0 cm beaded design with a red edge and a light blue background with the head and shoulders of a buffalo in dark brown. The bison has white horns, eyes and nostrils.
- Subject
- Indigenous, Stoney
- crafts
- beadwork
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.3010
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- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- fibre; plastic; skin
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.3047 a-c
- Description
- Three cotton collars lined with same light blue cotton. a) Red with silver trim and opalescent sequins and gold sequin trim along bottom edge. Thong tie and elastic at one side.b) Red with gold sequin trim and four dark blue sequinned shapes. Tag in CRW's writing: "Hazel Hunter pounded March 10 1…
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- Title
- Beaded Collar
- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- fibre; plastic; skin
- Dimensions
- 33.0 (a); 25.7 (b); 34.5 (c) x 34.5 (a); 31.0 (b); 35.6 (c) cm
- Description
- Three cotton collars lined with same light blue cotton. a) Red with silver trim and opalescent sequins and gold sequin trim along bottom edge. Thong tie and elastic at one side.b) Red with gold sequin trim and four dark blue sequinned shapes. Tag in CRW's writing: "Hazel Hunter pounded March 10 1970." Thong tie with elastic at one side.c) Dark blue with silver trim and opalescent sequins. Flowers and leaves outlined with gold sequins. Thong ties at one side.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.3047 a-c
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- Date
- 1950 – 1954
- Material
- skin; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.1160
- Description
- Men’s beaded elkskin jacket with front button closure, two front hip pockets and two front chest pockets. Fringe along jacket bottom, across front and back yokes, back of sleeves. Floral beadwork on pockets and across back yoke in blue, yellow, green and orange.
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- Title
- Beaded Jacket
- Date
- 1950 – 1954
- Material
- skin; glass
- Dimensions
- 68.0 x 83.0 cm
- Description
- Men’s beaded elkskin jacket with front button closure, two front hip pockets and two front chest pockets. Fringe along jacket bottom, across front and back yokes, back of sleeves. Floral beadwork on pockets and across back yoke in blue, yellow, green and orange.
- Credit
- Gift of Marilyn Newell, Qualicum Beach, 2002
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.1160
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- Date
- 1915
- Material
- skin, deer; glass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.1177
- Description
- An adult’s beaded buckskin jacket with leather tie front closing; appears to be Stoney beadwork; all beadwork done in the lazy stitch. Blue, green, and ochre beads, stitched in rows on breast front, beading of and blue and ochre on the shoulders and around the armholes, a rounded chevron-shaped des…
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- Title
- Beaded Jacket
- Date
- 1915
- Material
- skin, deer; glass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 51.0 x 65.0cm cm
- Description
- An adult’s beaded buckskin jacket with leather tie front closing; appears to be Stoney beadwork; all beadwork done in the lazy stitch. Blue, green, and ochre beads, stitched in rows on breast front, beading of and blue and ochre on the shoulders and around the armholes, a rounded chevron-shaped design (five rows) of alternating dark and light blue beads on the back ending with two light blue, dark blue and ochre, tails. The beadwork from the bottom rounded chevron-shaped pattern extends to the shoulders and down the arms meeting with two separate rows (of two) of blue and ochre beads. The cuffs and bottom of the jacket have cutouts on wide fringes and also have the regular narrow fringes. There are fringes around the armholes, down the sleeves and around the v-shaped beadwork design on the back. The jacket has no collar but has a strip of pinked thin leather sewn down, ending in a cutout beaded flap (13.0cm long) which is sewn on so that it hangs down like a small necktie when the jacket is closed. The jacket has ochre spots on the front and back and yellow spots on the sleeves. Measurement 148.0cm, across chest.
- Credit
- Gift of Eric C. Sharpless, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.1177
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Beaded Necklace
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- Date
- 1950 – 1970
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.01.1039
- Description
- Beaded choker made of three sections. Ends are skin with gold, black and red beads, bordered with green and black beads. Centre section loom beaded in red, black and white.
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- Title
- Beaded Necklace
- Date
- 1950 – 1970
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 3.5 x 79.0 cm
- Description
- Beaded choker made of three sections. Ends are skin with gold, black and red beads, bordered with green and black beads. Centre section loom beaded in red, black and white.
- Credit
- Gift of Harold C. Whyte, Penticton, 2002
- Catalogue Number
- 103.01.1039
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- Date
- 1910 – 1930
- Material
- bone; quill; skin; feather
- Catalogue Number
- 108.01.1001
- Description
- A Stoney bone game consisting of 5 bones and a quill. Quill sides are cut flat, pointed, notched (1.5 cm from the end) with a narrow rawhide tied in notch. Five hollow bones, shaped with 4 sides and 3 circular holes in each side. The rawhide goes through bones end to end. The end of the rawhide str…
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- Title
- Bone Game
- Date
- 1910 – 1930
- Material
- bone; quill; skin; feather
- Description
- A Stoney bone game consisting of 5 bones and a quill. Quill sides are cut flat, pointed, notched (1.5 cm from the end) with a narrow rawhide tied in notch. Five hollow bones, shaped with 4 sides and 3 circular holes in each side. The rawhide goes through bones end to end. The end of the rawhide string has a notched and punched rawhide rosette and a red punched wool rosette with a piece of feather to act as a stopper.
- Subject
- entertainment
- games
- Indigenous, Stoney
- Credit
- Gift of J. Monroe Thorington, Philadelphia, USA, 1970
- Catalogue Number
- 108.01.1001
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- Date
- 1910 – 1930
- Material
- wood; sinew; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0002
- Description
- A sturdy bow carved from a piece of wood and shaped allowing for knots in the wood (almost a reverse curve at one end). A twisted sinew cord is looped around a notch at one end and wrapped around the bow many times at the other end.
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- Title
- Bow
- Date
- 1910 – 1930
- Material
- wood; sinew; fibre
- Dimensions
- 115.0 cm
- Description
- A sturdy bow carved from a piece of wood and shaped allowing for knots in the wood (almost a reverse curve at one end). A twisted sinew cord is looped around a notch at one end and wrapped around the bow many times at the other end.
- Subject
- Indigenous, Stoney
- hunting
- households
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0002
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- Date
- 1910 – 1930
- Material
- skin, cow; fibre; sinew
- Catalogue Number
- 104.10.0001
- Description
- A long tube of heifer hide with reddish brown hair. The sheath has a carrying thong attached at the top and 2/3 of the way down the length.
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- Title
- Bow Sheath
- Date
- 1910 – 1930
- Material
- skin, cow; fibre; sinew
- Dimensions
- 94.0 cm
- Description
- A long tube of heifer hide with reddish brown hair. The sheath has a carrying thong attached at the top and 2/3 of the way down the length.
- Subject
- Indigenous, Stoney
- hunting
- tourism
- souvenirs
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.10.0001
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- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- metal; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 104.02.3001 a,b
- Description
- Two wooden handled brush hooks each with a slightly “S”-shaped blade held to the handle with roughly soldered metal straps.a) Sticky black tape on handle. Blade attached with two screws and square nuts. Tag attached with CRW writing: “For cutting willows belonged to Nat Hunter - Sept 12 (Viola po…
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- Title
- Brush Hook
- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- metal; wood
- Dimensions
- 16.0 (a); 15.0 (b) x 104.0 (a); 103.0 (b) cm
- Description
- Two wooden handled brush hooks each with a slightly “S”-shaped blade held to the handle with roughly soldered metal straps.a) Sticky black tape on handle. Blade attached with two screws and square nuts. Tag attached with CRW writing: “For cutting willows belonged to Nat Hunter - Sept 12 (Viola pounded it.)”b) Very weathered handle, cracked, blackened where tape removed. Blade attached with one screw and square nut.
- Subject
- Indigenous, Stoney
- Nat Hunter
- Viola Hunter
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.02.3001 a,b
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- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 109.02.3012
- Description
- Turned wood (looks like a baluster) with a shaped wooden bowl attached near the end opposite the mouthpiece. The pipe is nailed together. Tag with CRW writing: “From Big Horn probably Laurier Hunter” on one side, and “Old Wildman fr. Big Horn” on the reverse.
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- Title
- Calumet
- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 16.0 x 3.5 x 67.0 cm
- Description
- Turned wood (looks like a baluster) with a shaped wooden bowl attached near the end opposite the mouthpiece. The pipe is nailed together. Tag with CRW writing: “From Big Horn probably Laurier Hunter” on one side, and “Old Wildman fr. Big Horn” on the reverse.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 109.02.3012
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- Date
- prior to 1974
- Material
- skin; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.3035 a
- Description
- (a) Heavy leather belt with separate cartridge holder loops sewn on. Metal buckle with separate strap attached with copper rivets at other end. Tag in CRW's writing: "Sally Bearspaw Mrs Tom Twoyoungmen belt was given to all the chiefs for ammunion at time of signing of Treaty. This was old Chief…
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- Title
- Cartridge Belt
- Date
- prior to 1974
- Material
- skin; metal
- Dimensions
- 8.0 x 103.0 cm
- Description
- (a) Heavy leather belt with separate cartridge holder loops sewn on. Metal buckle with separate strap attached with copper rivets at other end. Tag in CRW's writing: "Sally Bearspaw Mrs Tom Twoyoungmen belt was given to all the chiefs for ammunion at time of signing of Treaty. This was old Chief Jacob Bearspaws Feb 16 1974," and on reverse: "when gov't talks about Treaty they wear bullet belt. Wants Frank to wear it so he will have more power."
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.3035 a
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- Date
- 1910 – 1920
- Material
- skin; fibre; paper; glass; moss
- Catalogue Number
- 108.05.0001 a,b
- Description
- A very soft white (buckskin?) mossbag (a) with a small buckskin doll inside (b). a) A mossbag that laces down the entire front with a flap at the back. The bag is decorated with three diagonal stripes of orange, blue and purple beads on each side. The bag is lined with paper and fabric and filled…
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- Title
- Doll
- Date
- 1910 – 1920
- Material
- skin; fibre; paper; glass; moss
- Dimensions
- 60.0 (a); 24.0 (b) x 14.0 (a); 6.1 (b) x 15.0 (a); 0.5 (b) cm
- Description
- A very soft white (buckskin?) mossbag (a) with a small buckskin doll inside (b). a) A mossbag that laces down the entire front with a flap at the back. The bag is decorated with three diagonal stripes of orange, blue and purple beads on each side. The bag is lined with paper and fabric and filled with dried moss.b) A small stuffed doll of buckskin with a bonnet on its head. The bonnet trim and simple facial features are beaded with blue and black beads.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 108.05.0001 a,b
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- Date
- 1910 – 1935
- Material
- skin; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 104.33.0004
- Description
- A round drum of rawhide stretched over a wooden hoop frame. Leather strips are laced through holes at the edge of the skin and pulled tightly across the back to form six spokes of leather which are woven around with another thong at the centre to tighten them even more. A thong loop wrist strap i…
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- Title
- Drum
- Date
- 1910 – 1935
- Material
- skin; wood
- Dimensions
- 6.5 cm
- Description
- A round drum of rawhide stretched over a wooden hoop frame. Leather strips are laced through holes at the edge of the skin and pulled tightly across the back to form six spokes of leather which are woven around with another thong at the centre to tighten them even more. A thong loop wrist strap is tied around one spoke. There is slight residue of red paint on the hide’s surface. The letters “EEB BNN” are written in pencil on the back of the drum.
- Subject
- music
- ceremonial
- Indigenous, Stoney
- crafts
- painting
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.33.0004
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- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- bone
- Catalogue Number
- 104.24.3009
- Description
- Squared bone with an end cut off at a shallow angle to create a sharp edge. The scraping edge notched with narrow parallel cuts. The opposite end of the flesher is a flat joint. Tag with CRW writing: “Belonged to Mrs. Silas (Cassie) Abraham Joes. Grandmother who’s father owned bible.”
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- Title
- Flesher
- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- bone
- Dimensions
- 3.5 x 5.0 x 32.0 cm
- Description
- Squared bone with an end cut off at a shallow angle to create a sharp edge. The scraping edge notched with narrow parallel cuts. The opposite end of the flesher is a flat joint. Tag with CRW writing: “Belonged to Mrs. Silas (Cassie) Abraham Joes. Grandmother who’s father owned bible.”
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.24.3009
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- Date
- prior to 1930
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 108.01.0001 a-d
- Description
- Two pairs of Stoney First Nation gaming sticks carved smoothly to taper and flatten at the ends. At one time each stick was painted with red ochre. There is a design carved and burned on one side of each pair. a,b) Cross inside a rectangle at the centre and at each end.c,d) Four parallel lines at…
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- Title
- Game Stick
- Date
- prior to 1930
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 1.5 x 3.7 x 29.5 cm
- Description
- Two pairs of Stoney First Nation gaming sticks carved smoothly to taper and flatten at the ends. At one time each stick was painted with red ochre. There is a design carved and burned on one side of each pair. a,b) Cross inside a rectangle at the centre and at each end.c,d) Four parallel lines at the centre and at each end.
- Subject
- Indigenous, Stoney
- games
- crafts
- carving
- toys
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 108.01.0001 a-d
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- Date
- 1950
- Material
- horn, sheep
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0001
- Description
- A ladle with a narrow handle and a wide bowl showing the grain of the mountain sheep horn.
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- Title
- Ladle
- Date
- 1950
- Material
- horn, sheep
- Dimensions
- 45.0 (tip of handle to tip of ladle) cm
- Description
- A ladle with a narrow handle and a wide bowl showing the grain of the mountain sheep horn.
- Subject
- Indigenous, Stoney
- households
- crafts
- tools
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0001
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- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- glass; skin; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 104.24.3002
- Description
- Fully beaded rectangular pouch with a diamond-shpaed opening in the centre front. A piece of mirror, with a bevelled edge, has been placed inside the bag behind the opening. The top of the pouch has a blue and white beaded handle and there is long hide fringe (22.0 cm) attached to the bottom edge…
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- Title
- Mirror Case
- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- glass; skin; fibre
- Dimensions
- 58.5 x 15.1 cm
- Description
- Fully beaded rectangular pouch with a diamond-shpaed opening in the centre front. A piece of mirror, with a bevelled edge, has been placed inside the bag behind the opening. The top of the pouch has a blue and white beaded handle and there is long hide fringe (22.0 cm) attached to the bottom edge. The mirror case has floral decoration on both sides with orange and red flowers and burgandy and yellow flowers.
- Subject
- Indigenous, Stoney
- crafts
- beadwork
- households
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.24.3002
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- Date
- 1950 – 1960
- Material
- fibre; skin
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.1157 a,b
- Description
- Mossbag of blue velvet with tanned hide along opening. Decorated with pink rickrack and commercial embroidery strip. Separate lining of padded floral printed fabric.
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- Title
- Mossbag
- Date
- 1950 – 1960
- Material
- fibre; skin
- Dimensions
- 26.0 x 80.0 cm
- Description
- Mossbag of blue velvet with tanned hide along opening. Decorated with pink rickrack and commercial embroidery strip. Separate lining of padded floral printed fabric.
- Credit
- Gift of Harold C. Whyte, Penticton, 2002
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.1157 a,b
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