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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
- c. 1920
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.951 b
- Description
- Indigenous man wearing two feathers and large blanket sitting in front of campfire.
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- c. 1920
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 29.8 x 22.4 cm
- Description
- Indigenous man wearing two feathers and large blanket sitting in front of campfire.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- campfire
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.951 b
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- Date
- 1917 – 1966
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.530
- Description
- A pencil drawing of two First Nations people in front of a teepee by water. They sit and watch a sunset with their backs to viewer. The sun is located in the centre, while the figures and teepee are to the left.
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1917 – 1966
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 15.1 x 22.5 cm
- Description
- A pencil drawing of two First Nations people in front of a teepee by water. They sit and watch a sunset with their backs to viewer. The sun is located in the centre, while the figures and teepee are to the left.
- Subject
- teepee
- Indigenous
- sunset;
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.530
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Ancient Brave of the Blood Tribe
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- Date
- prior to 1938
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- MiG.03.04
- Description
- A portrait from the shoulders up of a man wearing a fuzzy fir hat and a warm winter coat with hood. The man is looking directly at the viewer. Behind the man’s head is some heavy black shaded area created by the artist. The title is written on the lrc with the date: Alberta, 1938.
- Title
- Ancient Brave of the Blood Tribe
- Date
- prior to 1938
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 56.0 x 40.5 cm
- Description
- A portrait from the shoulders up of a man wearing a fuzzy fir hat and a warm winter coat with hood. The man is looking directly at the viewer. Behind the man’s head is some heavy black shaded area created by the artist. The title is written on the lrc with the date: Alberta, 1938.
- Subject
- portrait
- male
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of C. Gardner Lane Jr., Scarborough, USA, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- MiG.03.04
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- Date
- 1916 – 1966
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.679
- Description
- Two figures in tradition cowboy outfits facing each other with three figures wearing traditional Indigenous outfits standing behind watching. A dog watches to the left of the scene.
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1916 – 1966
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 19.5 x 37.1 cm
- Description
- Two figures in tradition cowboy outfits facing each other with three figures wearing traditional Indigenous outfits standing behind watching. A dog watches to the left of the scene.
- Subject
- cowboy
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.679
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