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Untitled [Native Man]

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactchg.03.01
Artist
Gerda Christoffersen ( – 2012, Canadian)
Date
1949
Medium
pastel on paper
Catalogue Number
ChG.03.01
Description
A portrait of an Indigenous man. His hair is grey and worn in two braids. He is wearing several strings of beads around his neck. His shirt or tunic is purple. A purple and orange checked blanket is wrapped around his shoulders. It is visible in both the bottom left corner and the bottom right…
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Artist
Gerda Christoffersen ( – 2012, Canadian)
Title
Untitled [Native Man]
Date
1949
Medium
pastel on paper
Description
A portrait of an Indigenous man. His hair is grey and worn in two braids. He is wearing several strings of beads around his neck. His shirt or tunic is purple. A purple and orange checked blanket is wrapped around his shoulders. It is visible in both the bottom left corner and the bottom right corner. Behind his shoulder on the left, a tipi is visible. Smoke is coming out of the top of it. Brown, craggy mountains are visible across the horizon. The sky moves up from yellow to green to blue. Clouds at the top of the image are orange.
Subject
portrait
male
Indigenous
Credit
Gift of Doris Gammon, Banff, 2000
Catalogue Number
ChG.03.01
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Walking Buffalo, Stony (sic)

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactbwh.03.01
Artist
Harley W. Brown (1939 – , Canadian)
Date
1960 – 1968
Medium
pastel on craft paper
Catalogue Number
BwH.03.01
Description
pastal drawing of Chief Walking Buffalo (George MacLean)
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Artist
Harley W. Brown (1939 – , Canadian)
Title
Walking Buffalo, Stony (sic)
Date
1960 – 1968
Medium
pastel on craft paper
Dimensions
62.33 x 48.26 cm
Description
pastal drawing of Chief Walking Buffalo (George MacLean)
Subject
Walking Buffalo
buffalo
pastel
Tatanga
Indigenous
Credit
Gift of Chris Hay, Maple Ridge, 2015
Catalogue Number
BwH.03.01
Images
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