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- Date
- 1920 – 1950
- Material
- metal; stone
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0196
- Description
- A small, cylindrical, lidded brass box, flat-bottomed, with a flush fitting, slightly domed lid which has a flange fitting into the straight, vertical wall of the box. Both box wall and lid have chips of turquoise set into enamel and polished flush with the surface. The dome of the lid is bare bras…
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- Title
- Trinket Box
- Date
- 1920 – 1950
- Material
- metal; stone
- Dimensions
- 2.0 x 3.7 cm
- Description
- A small, cylindrical, lidded brass box, flat-bottomed, with a flush fitting, slightly domed lid which has a flange fitting into the straight, vertical wall of the box. Both box wall and lid have chips of turquoise set into enamel and polished flush with the surface. The dome of the lid is bare brass in the rough configuration of a posy.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0196
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Souvenir Bookmark
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact105.06.1030
- Date
- prior to 1940
- Material
- skin
- Catalogue Number
- 105.06.1030
- Description
- One strip of buckskin has "Banff" at top with coloured face of an Indigenous person with feather headdress. Underneath "For a Lover Of Books" then more lettering at an angle "To Mother O'Brien from Jim" . All lettering is in brown pyrograph. At bottom of bookmark fine brown lines are drawn acro…
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- Title
- Souvenir Bookmark
- Date
- prior to 1940
- Material
- skin
- Dimensions
- 18.8 x 3.8 cm
- Description
- One strip of buckskin has "Banff" at top with coloured face of an Indigenous person with feather headdress. Underneath "For a Lover Of Books" then more lettering at an angle "To Mother O'Brien from Jim" . All lettering is in brown pyrograph. At bottom of bookmark fine brown lines are drawn across and cuts made vertically to simulate fringes.
- Subject
- souvenir
- Banff
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Purchased from Tom Williams, Calgary, 1991
- Catalogue Number
- 105.06.1030
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