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- Patricia Askren (1951 – , American) 13
- Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian) 12
- Brian Joseph Grandbois 10
- George Clutesi (1905 – 1988, Canadian) 4
- David Muskego 2
- Alex Simeon Janvier (1935 – , Canadian) 1
- Eegyvudluk Ragee (1920 – 1983, Canadian) 1
- John Kenneth Esler (1933 – , Canadian) 1
- Leslie Reid 1
- Robert Muskego 1
- Robin Sturdy (1946 – 1998, Canadian) 1
- Unknown 1
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ClG.03.04
- Description
- A large black and white bird bends over to examine a red ball in the lower right corner. The left side is empty.
1 image
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 19.0 x 26.5 cm
- Description
- A large black and white bird bends over to examine a red ball in the lower right corner. The left side is empty.
- Subject
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977
- Catalogue Number
- ClG.03.04
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- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ClG.03.03
- Description
- General colour: green on white. Two frog shaped creatures with large heads face out. Along the upper edge is a green raining stripe.
1 image
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.4 x 45.5 cm
- Description
- General colour: green on white. Two frog shaped creatures with large heads face out. Along the upper edge is a green raining stripe.
- Subject
- mythological
- Credit
- Purchased from Unknown, 1969
- Catalogue Number
- ClG.03.03
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- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- ink; watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ClG.03.02
- Description
- General colour: black on white. A whale going to the left. A long feather shape comes down from behind the tail.
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- Title
- Mahuk
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- ink; watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 45.5 cm
- Description
- General colour: black on white. A whale going to the left. A long feather shape comes down from behind the tail.
- Subject
- mythological
- Credit
- Purchased from Unknown, 1969
- Catalogue Number
- ClG.03.02
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- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ClG.03.01
- Description
- General colour: blue on white. A serpent shaped creature whose tail in the lower left has three ends. Two flanges come out of the body in the upper right. The head is turned to the left.
1 image
- Title
- The Wolf
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 43.8 x 30.2 cm
- Description
- General colour: blue on white. A serpent shaped creature whose tail in the lower left has three ends. Two flanges come out of the body in the upper right. The head is turned to the left.
- Subject
- mythological
- Credit
- Purchased from Unknown, 1969
- Catalogue Number
- ClG.03.01
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- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.05.02
- Description
- General colour: grey green. A man, wearing only a blue loin cloth and two feathers in his braided hair grips the neck of another man who kneels to the right of him. A ghost image of a bear grasping a bison is slightly superimposed on top of them. There is a horizon line of white figures - four to e…
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- Title
- The Contest
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 26.1 x 37.5 cm
- Description
- General colour: grey green. A man, wearing only a blue loin cloth and two feathers in his braided hair grips the neck of another man who kneels to the right of him. A ghost image of a bear grasping a bison is slightly superimposed on top of them. There is a horizon line of white figures - four to each side of the central image.Au verso: “THE CONTEST” tlhc “436” encircled, rhtc “K.6” (remaining number hidden by archival tape)brhc “12” encircled, below “30” encircled
- Credit
- Purchased from Archives of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, 1970
- Catalogue Number
- StS.05.02
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The Man Who Outran the Deer
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- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.05.03
- Description
- Colour: brown and white on yellow. Two small brown deer leap from viewer’s right two-thirds the way up. One antlered deer halts at the left side half way up. A running man wearing a loin cloth fills the centre space. His black hair with a feather in it flies out to the right.Au verso rhtc “111” en…
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- Title
- The Man Who Outran the Deer
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.8 x 35.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: brown and white on yellow. Two small brown deer leap from viewer’s right two-thirds the way up. One antlered deer halts at the left side half way up. A running man wearing a loin cloth fills the centre space. His black hair with a feather in it flies out to the right.Au verso rhtc “111” encircled
- Subject
- figure, male
- animal, deer
- mythological
- Credit
- Purchased from Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- StS.05.03
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To The Morning
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- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.05.04
- Description
- Colour: brown, red, blue, black on yellow. A bare-breasted woman with a baby in a cradleboard on her back strides towards the viewer’s left side of the painting. A black dog, with his red tongue hanging out, follows the high top moccasins in her left hand. She carries a white shawl in her right han…
1 image
- Title
- To The Morning
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.8 x 35.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: brown, red, blue, black on yellow. A bare-breasted woman with a baby in a cradleboard on her back strides towards the viewer’s left side of the painting. A black dog, with his red tongue hanging out, follows the high top moccasins in her left hand. She carries a white shawl in her right hand and wears a blue, red, green and white skirt. A smaller image of the woman and the dog are seen in the red oval which sits right of center on the red horizon line.Au verso: “TO THE MORNING”
- Subject
- figure, female
- animal, dog
- mythological
- Credit
- Purchased from Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- StS.05.04
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Bringing Back a Lost Soul
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- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.04.01
- Description
- Colour: black on white. Central figure is kneeling, with the head of an ill man resting in his hands. Behind them are swirls of strange figures, their arms outstretched. Vestiges of former drawing visible.
1 image
- Title
- Bringing Back a Lost Soul
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 59.6 x 39.2 cm
- Description
- Colour: black on white. Central figure is kneeling, with the head of an ill man resting in his hands. Behind them are swirls of strange figures, their arms outstretched. Vestiges of former drawing visible.
- Subject
- figure, group
- mythological
- Credit
- Purchased from Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- StS.04.01
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- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.04.02
- Description
- Colour: black on white. A man stands at center. His arms reach out to the left. He has a feather in his hair and a ring in his ear. His lower body is transparent. Across the lower part of the picture behind him is a semi-circle of dancing figures going around to the left. Behind the man's head are …
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- Title
- Ghost Dance
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 39.3 x 59.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: black on white. A man stands at center. His arms reach out to the left. He has a feather in his hair and a ring in his ear. His lower body is transparent. Across the lower part of the picture behind him is a semi-circle of dancing figures going around to the left. Behind the man's head are three wide round bands going across the picture.
- Subject
- figure, male
- group
- mythological
- Credit
- Purchased from Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- StS.04.02
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Only Buffaloes Can Call Buffaloes
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- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.04.03
- Description
- Colour: black on white. Two figures wearing horned headresses, face left in the center. In a row behind them are five silouetted bison images looking like the figures. Above and below this are large and small images of a bison standing on his front legs. They all face right.
1 image
- Title
- Only Buffaloes Can Call Buffaloes
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 59.6 x 39.2 cm
- Description
- Colour: black on white. Two figures wearing horned headresses, face left in the center. In a row behind them are five silouetted bison images looking like the figures. Above and below this are large and small images of a bison standing on his front legs. They all face right.
- Subject
- figure, male
- animal, buffalo
- mythological
- Credit
- Purchased from Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- StS.04.03
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- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.04.04
- Description
- Colour: black on white. A face with long black hair is approached on either side by other faces. The lower one is in profile and the hair turns into an arm with a hand pointing up. The upper face is turned out and has a wild expression.A bird's beak comes out at the left side of this face. Three mo…
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- Title
- Spirits Talk
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 59.6 x 39.2 cm
- Description
- Colour: black on white. A face with long black hair is approached on either side by other faces. The lower one is in profile and the hair turns into an arm with a hand pointing up. The upper face is turned out and has a wild expression.A bird's beak comes out at the left side of this face. Three more bird heads appear up the left side and one in the lower right corner. In the upper right there is a large swirled shape.
- Subject
- portrait, male
- mythological
- Credit
- Purchased from Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- StS.04.04
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How the Beaver got His Tail
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- Artist
- Wayne Matchatis
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- oil on canvas on cardboard
- Catalogue Number
- MtW.02.01
- Description
- Symbolic s-curve drawing of the evolution of how the beaver got his tail, black on white, some of the forms are filled in solid.
- Artist
- Wayne Matchatis
- Title
- How the Beaver got His Tail
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- oil on canvas on cardboard
- Dimensions
- 30 x 40.5 cm
- Description
- Symbolic s-curve drawing of the evolution of how the beaver got his tail, black on white, some of the forms are filled in solid.
- Subject
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- MtW.02.01
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Custer's Last Stand
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- Artist
- David Muskego
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- MuD.02.01
- Description
- Dominant yellow/rust/blue on white ground symbolic painting; initialled brc DM/72 and written on back brace Custer's Last Stand (symbolic) by David Muskego, LeGoff Reserve, Alta. in Catharine's handwriting; also 109 Frank Kaquitts.
- Artist
- David Muskego
- Title
- Custer's Last Stand
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 20.6 x 45.8 cm
- Description
- Dominant yellow/rust/blue on white ground symbolic painting; initialled brc DM/72 and written on back brace Custer's Last Stand (symbolic) by David Muskego, LeGoff Reserve, Alta. in Catharine's handwriting; also 109 Frank Kaquitts.
- Subject
- symbolism
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- MuD.02.01
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The Messengers
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- Artist
- David Muskego
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- oil on board
- Catalogue Number
- MuD.02.02
- Description
- Label removed from back said The Messengers - The Great Eagle Spirit talks to the Medicine man at the centre. He then speaks to the messengers at his left and right who guide him to carry the message and power of the Great Spirit to the people. David Muskego Age: 18, LeGoff Reserve signed brc 72' D…
- Artist
- David Muskego
- Title
- The Messengers
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- oil on board
- Dimensions
- 40.5 x 50.7 cm
- Description
- Label removed from back said The Messengers - The Great Eagle Spirit talks to the Medicine man at the centre. He then speaks to the messengers at his left and right who guide him to carry the message and power of the Great Spirit to the people. David Muskego Age: 18, LeGoff Reserve signed brc 72' D. Muskego.
- Subject
- symbolism
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- MuD.02.02
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Bringing Back A Lost Soul
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- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.04.05
- Description
- Colour: black on white. Central figure is kneeling, with the head of an ill man resting in his hands. Behind them are swirls of strange figures, their arms outstretched.
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- Title
- Bringing Back A Lost Soul
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 59.6 x 39.2 cm
- Description
- Colour: black on white. Central figure is kneeling, with the head of an ill man resting in his hands. Behind them are swirls of strange figures, their arms outstretched.
- Subject
- figure, group
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- StS.04.05
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- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.04.06
- Description
- Colour: black on white. A man stands at center. His arms reach out to the left. He has a feather in his hair and a ring in his ear. His lower body is transparent. Across the lower part of the picture behind him is a semi-circle of dancing figures going around to the left. Behind the man's head are …
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- Title
- Ghost Dance
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 59.6 x 39.2 cm
- Description
- Colour: black on white. A man stands at center. His arms reach out to the left. He has a feather in his hair and a ring in his ear. His lower body is transparent. Across the lower part of the picture behind him is a semi-circle of dancing figures going around to the left. Behind the man's head are three wide round bands going across the picture.
- Subject
- figure, male
- group
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- StS.04.06
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Only Buffaloes Can Call Buffaloes
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- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.04.07
- Description
- Colour: black on white. Two figures wearing horned headresses, face left in the center. In a row behind them are five silouetted bison images looking like the figures. Above and below this are large and small images of a bison standing on his front legs. They all face right.
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- Title
- Only Buffaloes Can Call Buffaloes
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 59.6 x 39.2 cm
- Description
- Colour: black on white. Two figures wearing horned headresses, face left in the center. In a row behind them are five silouetted bison images looking like the figures. Above and below this are large and small images of a bison standing on his front legs. They all face right.
- Subject
- figure, male
- animal, buffalo
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- StS.04.07
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- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.04.08
- Description
- Colour: black on white. A face with long black hair is approached on either side by other faces. The lower one is in profile and the hair turns into an arm with a hand pointing up. The upper face is turned out and has a wild expression.A bird's beak comes out at the left side of this face. Three mo…
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- Title
- Spirits Talk
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 59.6 x 39.2 cm
- Description
- Colour: black on white. A face with long black hair is approached on either side by other faces. The lower one is in profile and the hair turns into an arm with a hand pointing up. The upper face is turned out and has a wild expression.A bird's beak comes out at the left side of this face. Three more bird heads appear up the left side and one in the lower right corner. In the upper right there is a large swirled shape.
- Subject
- portrait, male
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- StS.04.08
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- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Date
- 1973
- Medium
- acrylic on paper
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.01
- Description
- General colour: red, yellow, blue, black on white - equal portions. A single figure showing a force looking right, above that a fish looking left and above that a bird, wings spread, and legs coming down, looking right. Symbolic meanings - mother and child on her back, fish with eggs and an eagle -…
- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Title
- LIfe Cycle
- Date
- 1973
- Medium
- acrylic on paper
- Dimensions
- 152 x 30.5 cm
- Description
- General colour: red, yellow, blue, black on white - equal portions. A single figure showing a force looking right, above that a fish looking left and above that a bird, wings spread, and legs coming down, looking right. Symbolic meanings - mother and child on her back, fish with eggs and an eagle - all powerful symbols.
- Subject
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.01
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Yellow Totem Pole
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- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Date
- 1973
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.09
- Description
- The image is centered with a great deal of white background on all sides; the image appears to be a totem pole, yellow; other images extend from it, these are red with black.
- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Title
- Yellow Totem Pole
- Date
- 1973
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 25.5;50.4 x 17.5;40.4 cm
- Description
- The image is centered with a great deal of white background on all sides; the image appears to be a totem pole, yellow; other images extend from it, these are red with black.
- Subject
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.09
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