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Willow Drive, Madison

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Date: 1920

Medium: coloured woodcut on paper

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.44

Description: Long horizontal print with trees and road running across bottom from left to right then vanishing into the trees. Rows of trees, brown with blue shadow, yellow sunlight.

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Title: Willow Drive, Madison

Date: 1920

Medium: coloured woodcut on paper

Dimensions: 9.5 x 29.0 cm

Description: Long horizontal print with trees and road running across bottom from left to right then vanishing into the trees. Rows of trees, brown with blue shadow, yellow sunlight.

Subject: landscape; architecture, urban

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1982

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.44

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Cultus Creek

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Artist: Charles Morrise Brousson ( – 1941)

Date: 1920

Medium: oil on wood

Catalogue Number: BrC.02.01

Description: A primitive painting on a piece of wood. The foreground is beige and brown bank with a white and brown tepee on the left. Beyond this the creek, blue and white extends to mid centre. The top half of the painting is a slope covered with trees to left and a mountain, blue, white and green, to the ri…

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Artist: Charles Morrise Brousson ( – 1941)

Title: Cultus Creek

Date: 1920

Medium: oil on wood

Dimensions: 10.5 x 15.1 cm

Description: A primitive painting on a piece of wood. The foreground is beige and brown bank with a white and brown tepee on the left. Beyond this the creek, blue and white extends to mid centre. The top half of the painting is a slope covered with trees to left and a mountain, blue, white and green, to the right. A cloudy grey sky.

Subject: Canadian Rockies; landscape; mountain; creek; building; tepee

Credit: Gift of Earle Birney, Toronto, 1969

Catalogue Number: BrC.02.01

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Medal

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Date: 1920 – 1920

Material: metal

Catalogue Number: 103.09.0040

Description: A gold medal in the shape of a hexagram with leaf tips between each point and a circular seal in the centre. The seal has a figure centred under “Banff 1920” on the face of the medal. An inscription, “Winner’s Regents”, is on the reverse of the medal.

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Title: Medal

Date: 1920 – 1920

Material: metal

Dimensions: 4.5 cm

Description: A gold medal in the shape of a hexagram with leaf tips between each point and a circular seal in the centre. The seal has a figure centred under “Banff 1920” on the face of the medal. An inscription, “Winner’s Regents”, is on the reverse of the medal.

Subject: sports; Pearl Moore; Banff

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 103.09.0040

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Arrows

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Date: 1920

Material: wood; grass, reed; feather; metal, steel

Catalogue Number: 104.05.0007 a-p

Description: A set of sixteen arrows: a,b) Two wooden arrows tipped with steel arrowheads. Each of these arrows have three feathers at the end of the shaft. c,d) Two arrows with reed shafts and long wooden points. These arrows are notched at the end of the shaft and have no feathers.e) One reed arrow with the…

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Title: Arrows

Date: 1920

Material: wood; grass, reed; feather; metal, steel

Dimensions: 78.0 (longest) cm

Description: A set of sixteen arrows: a,b) Two wooden arrows tipped with steel arrowheads. Each of these arrows have three feathers at the end of the shaft. c,d) Two arrows with reed shafts and long wooden points. These arrows are notched at the end of the shaft and have no feathers.e) One reed arrow with the wooden point broken off. This arrow is notched at the end of the shaft and has no feathers. f-p) Eleven wooden arrows shaped to a point at one end and notched at the other end. Each arrow has three feathers tied on at the notched end of the shaft. Some of these arrows have painted bands under the feathers.

Subject: Indigenous; Plains; hunting; sports, archery; travel; souvenirs

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 104.05.0007 a-p

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Storage Basket

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Date: 1920

Material: grass

Catalogue Number: 104.19.0020

Description: A small basket that is made with natural and dyed straw woven in a checkerboard pattern. The basket has a pronounced shoulder which angles in to a narrower mouth. There is a coiled, flat, straw lid that fits into the opening.

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Title: Storage Basket

Date: 1920

Material: grass

Dimensions: 17.0 cm

Description: A small basket that is made with natural and dyed straw woven in a checkerboard pattern. The basket has a pronounced shoulder which angles in to a narrower mouth. There is a coiled, flat, straw lid that fits into the opening.

Subject: households; Indigenous, Klickitat; crafts; basketry; decorative

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 104.19.0020

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Storage Basket

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Date: 1920

Material: grass; hair, sheep; skin

Catalogue Number: 104.19.0022

Description: A deep, rectangular, flat bag woven of corn husks. The bag is decorated with colums of triangles stitched or woven with yarn. The basket has a long leather thong carrying strap.

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Title: Storage Basket

Date: 1920

Material: grass; hair, sheep; skin

Dimensions: 30.0 x 45.0 cm

Description: A deep, rectangular, flat bag woven of corn husks. The bag is decorated with colums of triangles stitched or woven with yarn. The basket has a long leather thong carrying strap.

Subject: Indigenous; Plateau; Western Plains; Nez Perce; trading; crafts; basketry; decorative

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 104.19.0022

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Coaster

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Date: 1920 – 1920

Material: metal; wood

Catalogue Number: 104.20.0026 a,b

Description: A pair of round, flat bottomed, coasters with wooden bases and silver plated short vertical sides. The sides bulge slightly and flare out at the rim. The sides are pierced with a series of short double vertical lines alternating with an incised fern pattern. There is silver trim around the rim.

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Title: Coaster

Date: 1920 – 1920

Material: metal; wood

Dimensions: 4.0 cm

Description: A pair of round, flat bottomed, coasters with wooden bases and silver plated short vertical sides. The sides bulge slightly and flare out at the rim. The sides are pierced with a series of short double vertical lines alternating with an incised fern pattern. There is silver trim around the rim.

Subject: households

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 104.20.0026 a,b

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Plaque

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Date: 1920 – 1920

Material: wax; metal; fibre

Catalogue Number: 107.01.0077

Description: A molded frame of a wax compound with a deep relief of a cathedral aisle lined with columns and arches from a floor to a high ceiling. There is a partition and doors at the end of a tall arched wall with a plaque and wreath on a tiled floor in front. The plaque is a yellowed ivory colour with blac…

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Title: Plaque

Date: 1920 – 1920

Material: wax; metal; fibre

Dimensions: 8.5 x 15.0 cm

Description: A molded frame of a wax compound with a deep relief of a cathedral aisle lined with columns and arches from a floor to a high ceiling. There is a partition and doors at the end of a tall arched wall with a plaque and wreath on a tiled floor in front. The plaque is a yellowed ivory colour with black and brown staining to enhance details. The plaque hangs from a doubled brown twisted cord through small holes molded through each of the top corners. Carved below the relief is “The Grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey Nov 11 1920.” The back is stamped “Ivorex copyright in all countries Arthur Osborne, made in England.”

Subject: households; souvenirs; military; memorials; symbols; collectables

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 107.01.0077

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Child’s Snowshoes

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Date: 1920

Material: wood; sinew; fibre

Catalogue Number: 106.04.1061 a,b

Description: A child’s snowshoes circa 1920, made of wood. The snowshoes have bent wooden frames nailed together at the tail and toe is squared-off. Bracing the frame are two wooden bars which separate the gut webbing into three sections; the toe section and the section closest to the tail is laced in fine gut,…

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Title: Child’s Snowshoes

Date: 1920

Material: wood; sinew; fibre

Dimensions: 24.5 x 84.0 cm

Description: A child’s snowshoes circa 1920, made of wood. The snowshoes have bent wooden frames nailed together at the tail and toe is squared-off. Bracing the frame are two wooden bars which separate the gut webbing into three sections; the toe section and the section closest to the tail is laced in fine gut, tightly woven, the middle is heavier gut webbing wound around both wooden pieces, and interlaced with the finely woven toe and tail sections. There is a hole under the toe and just beneath that, a strip of white woven canvas to tie over a boot. The toe and tail have holes through the frame where the gut is laced through and there are tufts of red wool strung through the holes as decoration.

Subject: sports; winter; snowshoeing

Credit: Gift of Bill Greenhough, 2006

Catalogue Number: 106.04.1061 a,b

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The Salmon River, Alaska

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Date: 1920

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.52

Description: see photo re: mat

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Title: The Salmon River, Alaska

Date: 1920

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 6.0 x 8.8 cm

Description: see photo re: mat

Subject: landscape; mountains; river, Salmon; Ernest Lamarque

Credit: Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.52

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View of the Soldiers’ Settlement Area, Creston, B.C. in 1920

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Date: 1920

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.54

Description: see photosmall w.c. sketch on plain paper with “View on the Soldiers’ Settlement Area, Creston B.C. in 1920” printed in black on bottom. “E.L.” blhc

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Title: View of the Soldiers’ Settlement Area, Creston, B.C. in 1920

Date: 1920

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 8.0 x 12.2 cm

Description: see photosmall w.c. sketch on plain paper with “View on the Soldiers’ Settlement Area, Creston B.C. in 1920” printed in black on bottom. “E.L.” blhc