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- Date
- 1999
- Material
- skin, deer; glass; fibre;
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.1186
- Description
- An untanned, buckskin jacket with floral beadwork design on the back across the shoulders in flowers with colours red, blue, black, yellow and leaves of green. The area below the beadwork is pinked and fringed. There is mirror image, identical beadwork on each side of the front of the jacket. There…
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- Title
- Beaded Jacket
- Date
- 1999
- Material
- skin, deer; glass; fibre;
- Dimensions
- 50.0; with arms 167.5 x 88.5 cm
- Description
- An untanned, buckskin jacket with floral beadwork design on the back across the shoulders in flowers with colours red, blue, black, yellow and leaves of green. The area below the beadwork is pinked and fringed. There is mirror image, identical beadwork on each side of the front of the jacket. There is a zippered front closure and a pinked and beaded portion on each side of the zipper. The beadwork is alternating blue, yellow and red flowers with blue and yellow leaves and stems and then below flowers with colours of red, blue, black, yellow and leaves in green. There are four flowers on each side. On the flat front pockets the borders are pinked and the beadwork is a flower with red petals rimmed with black and a yellow centre. The leaves and stem are green.
- Credit
- Gift of Nicholas Morant, Banff, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.1186
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Beaded Moccasins
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact103.03.1128%20a%2cb
- Date
- 1999
- Material
- skin, animal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.1128 a,b
- Description
- A pair of men’s cured hide, high-top moccasins, plain, no beadwork; they have pinked tongues and uppers, and long ties threaded through high-tops and tongue where it meets the vamps.
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- Title
- Beaded Moccasins
- Date
- 1999
- Material
- skin, animal
- Dimensions
- 22.0 x 13.5 x 29.5 sole cm
- Description
- A pair of men’s cured hide, high-top moccasins, plain, no beadwork; they have pinked tongues and uppers, and long ties threaded through high-tops and tongue where it meets the vamps.
- Subject
- footwear
- Indigenous
- Andy Russell
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Andy Russell, Waterton Park, 1999
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.1128 a,b
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Buffalo nation : history and legend of the North American bison
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26420
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1996
- Author
- Geist, Valerius
- Publisher
- Stillwater, MN : Voyageur Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 G27b
- Author
- Geist, Valerius
- Publisher
- Stillwater, MN : Voyageur Press
- Published Date
- 1996
- Physical Description
- 144 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm
- Abstract
- Photographs and text trace the cultural and natural history of the North American bison, looking at how the U.S. government practically eliminated the buffalo in the mid-1880s in an attempt to force Native Americans onto reservations, and discussing later conservation efforts. --Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Preface : the buffalo : symbol of North America -- Introduction : wild things in wild places -- ch. 1. Origins of the buffalo -- ch. 2. The hunter and the hunted -- ch. 3. Extermination of the bison -- ch. 4. The rise of the phoenix.
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 0896583139
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 07.2 G27b
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Canadian Rockies : where eagles soar
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26352
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1995
- Author
- Rowed, Scott
- Publisher
- Banff, Alta. : Cirrus Pub.
- Edition
- 1st
- Call Number
- 04 R79c
- Author
- Rowed, Scott
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Banff, Alta. : Cirrus Pub.
- Published Date
- 1995
- Physical Description
- 120 pages, 31cm, colour images/map
- Abstract
- Photography of people, places, animals, and plants from various locations in the Canadian Rockies.
- Contents
- Banff -- Lake Louise -- The Icefields parkway -- Jasper -- Kananaskis -- Yoho and Kootenay National parks -- Mt. Robson -- The Columbia mountains
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 0969954603
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 04 R79c
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Ni-Kso-Ko-Wa Blackfoot spirituality, traditions values and beliefs
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26297
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1992
- Author
- Long Standing Bear Chief a.k.a Gray, Harold E.
- Publisher
- Montana USA : Spirit Talk Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 L86n
- Responsibility
- Cover Art from William Day Child watercolours
- Publisher
- Montana USA : Spirit Talk Press
- Published Date
- 1992
- Physical Description
- 68pages, 21.4cm
- Subjects
- Blackfoot
- Indigenous
- Indigenous Culture
- Abstract
- Indigenous history of the Blackfoot people from the perspective of Long Standing Bear Chief.
- Contents
- Blackfoot or Blackfeet -- Reservation -- Give away celebrations -- Making of relatives -- Drums/songs/chants -- Painted lodges -- Pow Wows/ other celebrations -- Animal spirits -- Ni-kso-ko-was, my realtives -- Prayers and offerings -- The circle -- Indian names -- Chiefs -- The Buffalo -- Fasting and visions -- Plants and medicines -- Peyote -- The ceremonial pipe -- The four directions -- Indivdual prayer -- Indians and war -- Indian dances -- Face painting -- Anglicized words -- Traditional Indian and today's society -- Attending ceremonies/expressing an interest -- Women -- A vow
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 0963514814
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 07.2 L86n
- Collection
- Archives Library
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