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- Date
- 1940
- Material
- skin, deer; shell, cowrie
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0006
- Description
- A girl's deerskin dress fringed at the bottom of sleeves and at the hem. The dress is decorated with widely spaced horizontal rows of cowrie shells across the yoke and extending half way down the sleeves. There is a single row of shells at the hem.
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- Title
- Beaded Dress
- Date
- 1940
- Material
- skin, deer; shell, cowrie
- Dimensions
- 87.0 (shoulders) x 100.0 cm
- Description
- A girl's deerskin dress fringed at the bottom of sleeves and at the hem. The dress is decorated with widely spaced horizontal rows of cowrie shells across the yoke and extending half way down the sleeves. There is a single row of shells at the hem.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0006
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- Date
- 1945 – 1955
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0088
- Description
- A woman's dress of light buckskin with a very heavily beaded yoke of beaded canvas sewn at the waist to the buckskin skirt. The arms are similarly all heavily beaded canvas. Fringed skirt, also fringed at side seams and along waistline, tunic portion is open. White ground of beads is decorated with…
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- Title
- Beaded Dress
- Date
- 1945 – 1955
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 53.0 x 128.0 cm
- Description
- A woman's dress of light buckskin with a very heavily beaded yoke of beaded canvas sewn at the waist to the buckskin skirt. The arms are similarly all heavily beaded canvas. Fringed skirt, also fringed at side seams and along waistline, tunic portion is open. White ground of beads is decorated with central squares of gold, blue and red and stepped square diagonals ray out from it, stepped square diamonds on either side. Yoke and shoulders decorated with vermilion and green squares. Skirt has thong fringes hanging from leather rosettes.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0088
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- Date
- 1940 – 1960
- Material
- wood; sinew
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0041
- Description
- Bow made from branch split in half length wise with large notch at either end. Twisted sinew wrapped tightly at one end and strung to other with loop at notch of bowl. Stained dark red except for handgrip in middle, at ends, and along inside, many small knotholes.
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- Title
- Hunting Bow
- Date
- 1940 – 1960
- Material
- wood; sinew
- Dimensions
- 9.0 x 2.6 x 103.0 cm
- Description
- Bow made from branch split in half length wise with large notch at either end. Twisted sinew wrapped tightly at one end and strung to other with loop at notch of bowl. Stained dark red except for handgrip in middle, at ends, and along inside, many small knotholes.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- hunting
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0041
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- Date
- 1940 – 1960
- Material
- wood; sinew
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0042
- Description
- A bow whittled from tree branch split in half with bark peeled off and notch carved at either end to hold twisted sinew string which is tightly wrapped and knotted at one end, and tied with loop at other.
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- Title
- Hunting Bow
- Date
- 1940 – 1960
- Material
- wood; sinew
- Dimensions
- 3.5 x 3.4 x 132.4 cm
- Description
- A bow whittled from tree branch split in half with bark peeled off and notch carved at either end to hold twisted sinew string which is tightly wrapped and knotted at one end, and tied with loop at other.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- hunting
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0042
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- Date
- 1940 – 1960
- Material
- wood; sinew
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0043
- Description
- Long, rough bow made from branch of tree split in half lengthwise with bark, poplar? left on outside. Notches at either end hold twisted sinew which is tightly wrapped and knotted at one notch and looped at other.
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- Title
- Hunting Bow
- Date
- 1940 – 1960
- Material
- wood; sinew
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 3.8 x 155.6 cm
- Description
- Long, rough bow made from branch of tree split in half lengthwise with bark, poplar? left on outside. Notches at either end hold twisted sinew which is tightly wrapped and knotted at one notch and looped at other.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- hunting
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0043
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- Date
- prior to 1965
- Medium
- graphite; pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.03.08
- Description
- General colour: pencil. Portrait of a young girl. Shoulders turned to the right, head turned out and looking left. She has pigtails and two bead necklaces.
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- prior to 1965
- Medium
- graphite; pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.8 x 30.4 cm
- Description
- General colour: pencil. Portrait of a young girl. Shoulders turned to the right, head turned out and looking left. She has pigtails and two bead necklaces.
- Subject
- Portrait
- child
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.03.08
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