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- Date
- 1910 – 1925
- Material
- bark; quill; grass
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0266
- Description
- A flat-based, straight-sided birchbark box with smooth, flush, overfitting lid. Walls decorated with pink and white porcupine quills, and walls of lid similarly decorated. The top of the lid is decorated with an overlapped pattern of brown and white quills in a floral motif, with "stamens" of green…
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- Title
- Trinket Box
- Date
- 1910 – 1925
- Material
- bark; quill; grass
- Dimensions
- 6.2 x 7.5 cm
- Description
- A flat-based, straight-sided birchbark box with smooth, flush, overfitting lid. Walls decorated with pink and white porcupine quills, and walls of lid similarly decorated. The top of the lid is decorated with an overlapped pattern of brown and white quills in a floral motif, with "stamens" of green quills bursting from the centre. About 5% of the quills are loose at one end, some quills lost. Thread which binds grass to rim of lid has frayed severely. Box contains six quartz crystals.
- Subject
- households
- Indigenous
- decorative
- quillwork
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0266
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- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0070
- Description
- Large, three footed, black cast iron pot. Sloped sides, two cast brackets at rim hold arched wire handle, one ring on side of pot for hooking pouring. Inside pot smooth and rounded. Stamped on bottom "Gurney 9".
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- Title
- Cauldron
- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 19.0 x 27.1 x 30.7 cm
- Description
- Large, three footed, black cast iron pot. Sloped sides, two cast brackets at rim hold arched wire handle, one ring on side of pot for hooking pouring. Inside pot smooth and rounded. Stamped on bottom "Gurney 9".
- Subject
- households
- kitchen
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0070
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- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0071
- Description
- Large, three footed, black, cast iron pot, sloped sides, two cast brackets at rim hold arched wire handle. Bracket missing from outside of pot, that bracket would have held ring for hooking pouring from pot). Inside of pot smooth and rounded, stamped on bottom "9" and "G" inside diamond.
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- Title
- Cauldron
- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 22.6 x 29.6 x 33.2 cm
- Description
- Large, three footed, black, cast iron pot, sloped sides, two cast brackets at rim hold arched wire handle. Bracket missing from outside of pot, that bracket would have held ring for hooking pouring from pot). Inside of pot smooth and rounded, stamped on bottom "9" and "G" inside diamond.
- Subject
- households
- kitchen
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0071
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