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- Date
- 1930 – 1955
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0067
- Description
- A square, flat, woven straw bag, woven with natural and coloured straw to create a red and green plaid pattern. The bag has a pink velvet twisted wire animal (dog?) with bouquets of artificial flowers near the two small loop handles. Inside is a small woven pouch with a blue tile in it (3.5 cm x 3…
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- Title
- Purse
- Date
- 1930 – 1955
- Material
- fibre
- Dimensions
- 29.5 x 36.5 cm
- Description
- A square, flat, woven straw bag, woven with natural and coloured straw to create a red and green plaid pattern. The bag has a pink velvet twisted wire animal (dog?) with bouquets of artificial flowers near the two small loop handles. Inside is a small woven pouch with a blue tile in it (3.5 cm x 3.6 cm x 1.0 cm).
- Subject
- households
- crafts
- weaving
- animals
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0067
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- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0068
- Description
- A handbag, with a curved flap and short strap handle, woven in a zig-zig pattern from red and natural-coloured straw. The bag ahs a very flat, square shape. Inside the purse’s strap is “Pandang Sumatra”.
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- Title
- Purse
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- fibre
- Dimensions
- 17.5 x 24.0 cm
- Description
- A handbag, with a curved flap and short strap handle, woven in a zig-zig pattern from red and natural-coloured straw. The bag ahs a very flat, square shape. Inside the purse’s strap is “Pandang Sumatra”.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0068
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- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0070
- Description
- An envelope style 'clutch' handbag of woven purple and natural straw.
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- Title
- Purse
- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- fibre
- Dimensions
- 12.0 x 26.0 cm
- Description
- An envelope style 'clutch' handbag of woven purple and natural straw.
- Subject
- households
- crafts
- weaving
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0070
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- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- hair, sheep; fibre, silk
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0072
- Description
- A square beige bag with a diagonal striped pattern of red alternating with black. There are very heavy red silk tassels at each of the bag’s upper corners.
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- Title
- Purse
- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- hair, sheep; fibre, silk
- Dimensions
- 14.0 x 13.5 cm
- Description
- A square beige bag with a diagonal striped pattern of red alternating with black. There are very heavy red silk tassels at each of the bag’s upper corners.
- Subject
- households
- crafts
- weaving
- needlework
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0072
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- Date
- 1930 – 1960
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0081 a,b
- Description
- Two woven square straw bags. The larger purse (a) has two braided handles and four diamond shapes woven on the front in darker coloured straw. The second straw bag (b) is a smaller bag that fits inside the purse.
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- Title
- Purse
- Date
- 1930 – 1960
- Material
- fibre
- Dimensions
- 28.0 (a); 26.0 (b) x 34.0 (a); 30.0 (b) cm
- Description
- Two woven square straw bags. The larger purse (a) has two braided handles and four diamond shapes woven on the front in darker coloured straw. The second straw bag (b) is a smaller bag that fits inside the purse.
- Subject
- households
- crafts
- weaving
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0081 a,b
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Miniature Basket Collection
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- Date
- 1930 – 1979
- Material
- wood; fibre; hair
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0100 a-y
- Description
- A collection of twenty five miniature baskets. 8 baskets with wide flat ribs and wicker like weave. (a) 5.5 x 7.4 x 4.5, handled flower basket shape. (b) 7. x 6.5, plain round handled basket. (c) 3.5 x 4. as (b) but finer weave.. (e) 1.5 x 1.5 as (d) but smaller. (e) 1.5 x 1.5 as (d) but small…
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- Title
- Miniature Basket Collection
- Date
- 1930 – 1979
- Material
- wood; fibre; hair
- Dimensions
- 5.5 x 7.4 cm
- Description
- A collection of twenty five miniature baskets. 8 baskets with wide flat ribs and wicker like weave. (a) 5.5 x 7.4 x 4.5, handled flower basket shape. (b) 7. x 6.5, plain round handled basket. (c) 3.5 x 4. as (b) but finer weave.. (e) 1.5 x 1.5 as (d) but smaller. (e) 1.5 x 1.5 as (d) but smaller still. (f) 2.5 x 2.5 - as (d) but very shallow. (g) 1. x 4. small shallow bowl with flaring sides. (h ) 1.5 x 2. tiny deep flaring sides with narrow base 1 basket with flat ribs and very fine wicker-type weaving. (i) 6. x 7. purple and green bands woven around gently flaring sides. Natural coloured ribs split at rim and loosely braided in wide band around rim, twisted handle. 3 baskets of dyed weft simply woven over flat ribs. (j) 7. x 2. jar shape with purple, natural and green band, braided rim, and tall loop handle. (k) 2. x 2.5 tiny straight sided with alternating purple and natural coloured ribs forming vertical stripes and notched rim. (l) 3. 5 x 2. x 2. small square basket with handle and purple ribs with weft dyed red on outside. 2 twined baskets (m) 3. x 2.5 tiny round basket with handle, closely twined natural coloured weft green dyed curled points at rim, square base. (n) 3.5 x 7. small finely worked open basket with twill design formed on sides of natural and reddish weft, rim wrapped in natural colour with delicate zig-zag pattern around. 3 coiled baskets. (o) 4.5 x 6.5 straight sided open basket with each stitch wrapping two coils, design of red triangles ,four, with red band at top and bottom on natural coloured background. (p) 7. x 3. tall cylindrical basket with tall loop handle, wide band of coils at centre have been worked in more open weaving by knotting around each stitch between the coils. (q) 4.5 x 5. shallow flared bowl with handle with coils stitched together and wrapped, looped rim. 2 twined baskets with imbricated design. (r) 9.5 x 5. simply twined bucket with tall loop handle, natural colour with red and purple parallelograms worked in two bands and green band at rim, braided handle. (s) 4.5 x 3.5 x 1.5 very tiny oblong basket with braided string handle, Makah "bird-cage" stitch,natural colour with finely worked U.S. flag and "V" on one side, (red & blue . 3 very delicate baskets with hair like ribs and horsehair ? weft. (t) 1.5 x 4.5 straight sided open basket with translucent hair weft and two thin red bands, ribs form loops at rim each wrapped with a coil of hair like black fibre. (u) 2.5 x 3.5 small flared basket with small base and twisted handle, translucent hair weft alternating with red bands. (v) 2. x 2.5 as (u) but brown bands. 3 odd baskets. (w) 5.5 x 6.5 East-Asian type basket with extra exterior ribs added forming square base, diagonal weft at bottom over flat ribs with band of closely woven wicker type weft at top and wooden rings supporting round opening at top. (x) 5. x 5. shallow round bottomed basket with sturdy handle, rib structure radiates fan like from the bottoms of the handle to form the basket with the weft running from side to side across, rather than around, sturdy hoop at rim fastened at right angles to hoop forming handle.(y) 9.5 x 7.5 x 4. tall oblong basket with loop handle on either side , openwork sides bound together with three rows of twined stitching, band at base and top thickly closely twined.
- Subject
- Whyte home
- households
- decorative
- miniatures
- craft
- weaving
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0100 a-y
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