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- Date
- 1945 – 1945
- Material
- stone
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0201
- Description
- A hand-carved, well-made, lidded box carved from soft Rocky Mountain marble. The box has a front and a back. The front has bevelled corners, whereas the back has square corners. The box interior has rounded corners and the lid fits smoothly and flushly into the cutout. Base is felted with green fel…
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- Title
- Trinket Box
- Date
- 1945 – 1945
- Material
- stone
- Dimensions
- 4.3 x 5.7 x 9.2 cm
- Description
- A hand-carved, well-made, lidded box carved from soft Rocky Mountain marble. The box has a front and a back. The front has bevelled corners, whereas the back has square corners. The box interior has rounded corners and the lid fits smoothly and flushly into the cutout. Base is felted with green felt. The marble is black, streaked with white.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0201
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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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Trinket Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.0206
- Date
- 1940 – 1960
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0206
- Description
- A flat-based round basket with domed overfitting lid. Weave is simple over and under basket style. Vertical struts of basket are light brown, and weft is alternated light and dark strips. Simple, perfunctory object.
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- Title
- Trinket Basket
- Date
- 1940 – 1960
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 11.3 cm
- Description
- A flat-based round basket with domed overfitting lid. Weave is simple over and under basket style. Vertical struts of basket are light brown, and weft is alternated light and dark strips. Simple, perfunctory object.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- miniatures
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0206
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Trinket Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.0268
- Date
- 1920 – 1940
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0268
- Description
- A flat-based, straight-sided basket with flush-fitting conical lid which terminates in a reverse topknot cap. The walls of the box are decorated with two thunderbirds, wings extended, and clasping each an arrow. These major design elements are in black. At the ends of the arrows are flying birds in…
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- Title
- Trinket Basket
- Date
- 1920 – 1940
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 7.0 x 7.0 cm
- Description
- A flat-based, straight-sided basket with flush-fitting conical lid which terminates in a reverse topknot cap. The walls of the box are decorated with two thunderbirds, wings extended, and clasping each an arrow. These major design elements are in black. At the ends of the arrows are flying birds in red. At the bottom limit of the wall is an orange band in three lines of twining, outlined by two lines of twining in purple, a design motif repeated on the lid, and the lid "topknot" is in red surmounting rings of green and yellow.
- Subject
- households
- Indigenous
- miniatures
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0268
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