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- Date
- 1920 – 1950
- Material
- shell; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0154 a,b
- Description
- Two figurines of women with long full ruffled skirts and bonnets made up completely of seashells. (a) skirt of limpet shells form puffed sleeves and another a muff, two small shells form puffed sleeves and another a muff. Facial features painted on a shell with texture of shell painted over to rep…
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- Title
- Miniature Figurine
- Date
- 1920 – 1950
- Material
- shell; wood
- Dimensions
- 6.4 x 3.1 x 4.0 cm
- Description
- Two figurines of women with long full ruffled skirts and bonnets made up completely of seashells. (a) skirt of limpet shells form puffed sleeves and another a muff, two small shells form puffed sleeves and another a muff. Facial features painted on a shell with texture of shell painted over to represent hair, face is cupped by another shell forming a bonnet. (b) skirt of limpet shells piled on one another and glued together. Small shells form puffed sleeves with wooden stick arms. Necklace painted on bodice shell, facial features and black curly hair painted on shell which is cupped by another forming a bonnet. Two shells for feet on underside of skirt.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- miniatures
- figure
- female
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0154 a,b
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- Date
- 1920 – 1950
- Material
- metal; stone
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0196
- Description
- A small, cylindrical, lidded brass box, flat-bottomed, with a flush fitting, slightly domed lid which has a flange fitting into the straight, vertical wall of the box. Both box wall and lid have chips of turquoise set into enamel and polished flush with the surface. The dome of the lid is bare bras…
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- Title
- Trinket Box
- Date
- 1920 – 1950
- Material
- metal; stone
- Dimensions
- 2.0 x 3.7 cm
- Description
- A small, cylindrical, lidded brass box, flat-bottomed, with a flush fitting, slightly domed lid which has a flange fitting into the straight, vertical wall of the box. Both box wall and lid have chips of turquoise set into enamel and polished flush with the surface. The dome of the lid is bare brass in the rough configuration of a posy.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0196
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- Date
- 1920 – 1940
- Material
- stone
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0202
- Description
- A rectangular lidded box, hand-carved from soft marble-talc, which is black with white streaks in it. The box and its base are fluted on all exposed surfaces, and the top, but not the sides, of the lid is similarly fluted. The lid is a flat slab which fits flushly into/onto the box. Interior of box…
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- Title
- Trinket Box
- Date
- 1920 – 1940
- Material
- stone
- Dimensions
- 4.3 x 6.2 x 8.6 cm
- Description
- A rectangular lidded box, hand-carved from soft marble-talc, which is black with white streaks in it. The box and its base are fluted on all exposed surfaces, and the top, but not the sides, of the lid is similarly fluted. The lid is a flat slab which fits flushly into/onto the box. Interior of box is somewhat roughly carved and finished.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0202
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