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- Date
- 1970
- Material
- wood; feather; skin; hoof; stone
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.3010
- Description
- Flat, triangular stone lashed to a long wooden handle with hide. The handle, from commercial stock, is decorated with small animal and human footprints burnt into the wood. There are feathers attached to the handle with hide. The top of the tomahawk has a bunch of dew claws attached with hide.
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- Title
- Tomahawk Ax
- Date
- 1970
- Material
- wood; feather; skin; hoof; stone
- Dimensions
- 65.5 x 3.5 x 15.0 cm
- Description
- Flat, triangular stone lashed to a long wooden handle with hide. The handle, from commercial stock, is decorated with small animal and human footprints burnt into the wood. There are feathers attached to the handle with hide. The top of the tomahawk has a bunch of dew claws attached with hide.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.3010
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- Date
- 1970
- Material
- skin; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.3009
- Description
- Thick leather fold-over purse decorated with four rows of brass tacks curved arond a cross at the centre of the top flap. Back of purse has a 2.5 cm wide leather strap for slipping belt through. Tag printed with “ALBERTA STONEY INDIAN HAND CRAFTS MORLEY - ALBERTA” with a teepee and symbols. Th…
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- Title
- Purse
- Date
- 1970
- Material
- skin; metal
- Dimensions
- 11.0 x 14.5 cm
- Description
- Thick leather fold-over purse decorated with four rows of brass tacks curved arond a cross at the centre of the top flap. Back of purse has a 2.5 cm wide leather strap for slipping belt through. Tag printed with “ALBERTA STONEY INDIAN HAND CRAFTS MORLEY - ALBERTA” with a teepee and symbols. The reverse of the tag has CRW's writing: "Purse for belt belonged to Edwin Dixons mother - Belt he wore & is worn out Mina Lefthand - blind since he was 7."
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.3009
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- Date
- prior to 1990
- Material
- stone; glass; wood; skin; fabric
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.1007
- Description
- A hatchet/tomahawk with a hand hewn stone head that has a wooden handle attached by a leather thong with zigzag edges. The leather thong attaches a head with a blade that has six rounded notches. The wooden handle is beaded in the middle with red and blue beads and has a fringe on both ends. The bo…
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- Title
- Tomahawk Ax
- Date
- prior to 1990
- Material
- stone; glass; wood; skin; fabric
- Dimensions
- 14.0 x 46.0 cm
- Description
- A hatchet/tomahawk with a hand hewn stone head that has a wooden handle attached by a leather thong with zigzag edges. The leather thong attaches a head with a blade that has six rounded notches. The wooden handle is beaded in the middle with red and blue beads and has a fringe on both ends. The bottom of the handle has very little blue and red beads and longer fringes.
- Subject
- Indigenous, Stoney
- souvenir
- Credit
- Gift of Unknown, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.1007
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