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- Date
- 1910 – 1915
- Material
- paper
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0046
- Description
- Tall round cardboard box with box-type lid; delicately painted with watercolours over textured paper covering box and lid; four panels around sides contain painted flower sprays separated from alternating, wider panels painted with polka dots of lights blue; lid contains similar sprays of flowers a…
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- Title
- Trinket Box
- Date
- 1910 – 1915
- Material
- paper
- Dimensions
- 6.5 x 9.0 cm
- Description
- Tall round cardboard box with box-type lid; delicately painted with watercolours over textured paper covering box and lid; four panels around sides contain painted flower sprays separated from alternating, wider panels painted with polka dots of lights blue; lid contains similar sprays of flowers around side separated by light blue festoons of ribbons, and light blue polka dots on top, edges and lines separating panels painted with gold.
- Subject
- Whyte home
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0046
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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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Regimental Pin
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact103.09.0105
- Date
- 1914 – 1940
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.0105
- Description
- A pin of die-pressed cupreous metal, cut out in shape of maple leaf with Alberta coat of arms in middle surmounted by a crown, with banner beneath reading "Alberta Overseas Batt" XXXI". Back has long straps of metal which have been bent back into S-shape springing from each side of pin.
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- Title
- Regimental Pin
- Date
- 1914 – 1940
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 1.2 x 3.7 x 3.9 cm
- Description
- A pin of die-pressed cupreous metal, cut out in shape of maple leaf with Alberta coat of arms in middle surmounted by a crown, with banner beneath reading "Alberta Overseas Batt" XXXI". Back has long straps of metal which have been bent back into S-shape springing from each side of pin.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.0105
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Regimental Pin
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact103.09.0106
- Date
- 1910 – 1920
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.0106
- Description
- A die pressed, brass pin consisting of two cut out lions rampant on each side of a shield containing a square grid, with the same grid surmounting. Banner beneath, "Westminster Dragoons. I.Y." ring at either side of back holds long split pin.
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- Title
- Regimental Pin
- Date
- 1910 – 1920
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 0.9 x 3.2 x 3.8 cm
- Description
- A die pressed, brass pin consisting of two cut out lions rampant on each side of a shield containing a square grid, with the same grid surmounting. Banner beneath, "Westminster Dragoons. I.Y." ring at either side of back holds long split pin.
- Subject
- Whyte home
- military
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.0106
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