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One Caribou Swimming
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- Artist
- Aalook (1938 – , Canadian)
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Catalogue Number
- AaL.06.01
- Description
- Grey green mottled stone, flat bottomed swimming caribou, head extended, tail up, features defined, eyes and nostrils are holes, mouth carved, 2 holes for antlers, 2 bone antlers, carved.
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- Artist
- Aalook (1938 – , Canadian)
- Title
- One Caribou Swimming
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Dimensions
- 2.9 x 12.7 cm
- Description
- Grey green mottled stone, flat bottomed swimming caribou, head extended, tail up, features defined, eyes and nostrils are holes, mouth carved, 2 holes for antlers, 2 bone antlers, carved.
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- AaL.06.01
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- Artist
- Aalook (1938 – , Canadian)
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Catalogue Number
- AaL.06.02 a,b
- Description
- A bird sits on top of a bear, looking off to the left. (a) The bird 5.0 high is nicely carved, wings, eyes and beak defined. A hole in flat bottom has a peg to stabalize it to the bear. (b) The bear 3.8 x 7.8 x 3.8 is lying down. Ears, nose and mouth, eyes carved, tail is also carved. A hole …
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- Artist
- Aalook (1938 – , Canadian)
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Description
- A bird sits on top of a bear, looking off to the left. (a) The bird 5.0 high is nicely carved, wings, eyes and beak defined. A hole in flat bottom has a peg to stabalize it to the bear. (b) The bear 3.8 x 7.8 x 3.8 is lying down. Ears, nose and mouth, eyes carved, tail is also carved. A hole is drilled into centre back.
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- AaL.06.02 a,b
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- Artist
- Aalook (1938 – , Canadian)
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Catalogue Number
- AaL.06.03
- Description
- A swimming bird with head up, flat bottom. Wings carved into side and tail feathers indicated. Eyes and beak carved.
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- Artist
- Aalook (1938 – , Canadian)
- Title
- Bird
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Dimensions
- 4.8 x 2.5 cm
- Description
- A swimming bird with head up, flat bottom. Wings carved into side and tail feathers indicated. Eyes and beak carved.
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- AaL.06.03
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Animal Sculpture
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- Artist
- Abba
- Date
- c. 1952
- Catalogue Number
- AbA.06.01
- Description
- A walrus is laying on its left side, head up. Incised flippers and facial features. “ABBA E7 416” is engraved on the base. There is also a white label with “395” attached to the base.
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- Artist
- Abba
- Title
- Animal Sculpture
- Date
- c. 1952
- Dimensions
- 7.5 x 4.5 x 8.5 cm
- Description
- A walrus is laying on its left side, head up. Incised flippers and facial features. “ABBA E7 416” is engraved on the base. There is also a white label with “395” attached to the base.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- AbA.06.01
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- Date
- prior to 1962
- Catalogue Number
- AdA.06.01
- Description
- The stone color used here is green with black specks. The otter stands on all four of his short legs with his head up and tail outstretched. The face features and front toes are carved in great detail and inlaid with a white substance. The body of the otter is long, slender and finshed with a smoot…
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- Title
- Otter
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Dimensions
- 3.5 x 3.9 x 16.1 cm
- Description
- The stone color used here is green with black specks. The otter stands on all four of his short legs with his head up and tail outstretched. The face features and front toes are carved in great detail and inlaid with a white substance. The body of the otter is long, slender and finshed with a smooth surface.
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- AdA.06.01
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- Artist
- Agiak
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Catalogue Number
- AgI.06.01
- Description
- dark green stone; bird silhouette; stylized profile of a bird; sitting facing to the right; faint circle for an eye; deep cut arch for wing; sculpture is flat one side and at the feet.
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- Artist
- Agiak
- Title
- Bird
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Dimensions
- 7.1 x 4.7 cm
- Description
- dark green stone; bird silhouette; stylized profile of a bird; sitting facing to the right; faint circle for an eye; deep cut arch for wing; sculpture is flat one side and at the feet.
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- AgI.06.01
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- Artist
- Alasuak
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Catalogue Number
- AlA.06.01
- Description
- A very large seal carved from a medium gray stone leans on his side with one flipper upward. The seal's head has detailed carving for the mouth and eye areas. Wisker detail has been incised in to the face . The seal sits on a larger base that is attached and carved out of the same stone.On the base…
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- Artist
- Alasuak
- Title
- Large seal
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Dimensions
- 17.0 x 18.0 x 37.0 cm
- Description
- A very large seal carved from a medium gray stone leans on his side with one flipper upward. The seal's head has detailed carving for the mouth and eye areas. Wisker detail has been incised in to the face . The seal sits on a larger base that is attached and carved out of the same stone.On the base of the sculpture, there is a carved inscription that reads “ ALASUAK 261121”
- Subject
- animal
- seal; Inuit
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- AlA.06.01
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Near Nanton, Alberta
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- Date
- prior to 1965
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.05.15
- Description
- General colour: grey, brown, blue. Cattle munch grass along the lower edge. There is a building on the right side, a few trees to its left. Way in the distance are blue mountains. The upper three quarters is clouds.
- Title
- Near Nanton, Alberta
- Date
- prior to 1965
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 18.1 x 23.8 cm
- Description
- General colour: grey, brown, blue. Cattle munch grass along the lower edge. There is a building on the right side, a few trees to its left. Way in the distance are blue mountains. The upper three quarters is clouds.
- Credit
- Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.05.15
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- Date
- prior to 1961
- Catalogue Number
- AmE.06.01
- Description
- Dark green stone, seal lying on stomach with head up, front flippers out to side, back flippers straight back, carved mouth and nostrils, flippers and tail, holes for nostrils, round incised eyes
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- Title
- Seal
- Date
- prior to 1961
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 6.0 x 11.0 cm
- Description
- Dark green stone, seal lying on stomach with head up, front flippers out to side, back flippers straight back, carved mouth and nostrils, flippers and tail, holes for nostrils, round incised eyes
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- AmE.06.01
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Bears and Woman
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- Date
- prior to 1962
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- PiA.04.01
- Description
- engraved images of a woman in long tailed parka faces to the left, arms outstretched; she is facing two bears one is standing and showing teeth. 2.8 dia. embossed circle in br.Bottom reads “23/50 Dorset 1962 Pitseolak”Back reads “#270 DOR/FG 1962-49”Canadian Eskimo Arts Council (CEAC)embossed chop …
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- Title
- Bears and Woman
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 31.5 x 45.3 cm
- Description
- engraved images of a woman in long tailed parka faces to the left, arms outstretched; she is facing two bears one is standing and showing teeth. 2.8 dia. embossed circle in br.Bottom reads “23/50 Dorset 1962 Pitseolak”Back reads “#270 DOR/FG 1962-49”Canadian Eskimo Arts Council (CEAC)embossed chop in br.
- Subject
- animal
- bear
- figure
- female
- mythological
- transformation
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- PiA.04.01
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Mountain Goats and Mount Assiniboine
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- Date
- 1941
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- BwB.02.06
- Description
- General colour: blue, green, grey. Two mountain goats look over a cliff at right into misty valley below. A hawk flys in the cloud lower left. In the upper left is a mountain. The peak is up center and is slightly behind a cloud. The sky is bright yellow.
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- Title
- Mountain Goats and Mount Assiniboine
- Date
- 1941
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 45.0 x 59.0 cm
- Description
- General colour: blue, green, grey. Two mountain goats look over a cliff at right into misty valley below. A hawk flys in the cloud lower left. In the upper left is a mountain. The peak is up center and is slightly behind a cloud. The sky is bright yellow.
- Credit
- Gift of J. Monroe Thorington, Philadelphia, USA, 1973
- Catalogue Number
- BwB.02.06
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Mount Saskatchewan
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- Date
- 1940
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- BwB.02.08
- Description
- Three Rams are standing on the edge of a cliff looking over the edge out at the mountains in the background. The mountains in the background have many clouds around them and the sky is also very cloudy. There are trees down close to the bottom of the image in the center and the Rams are facing the …
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- Title
- Mount Saskatchewan
- Date
- 1940
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 50.0 x 51.0 cm
- Description
- Three Rams are standing on the edge of a cliff looking over the edge out at the mountains in the background. The mountains in the background have many clouds around them and the sky is also very cloudy. There are trees down close to the bottom of the image in the center and the Rams are facing the left side of the painting with their backs to the right.
- Credit
- Gift of J. Monroe Thorington, Philadelphia, USA, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- BwB.02.08
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- Date
- 1940
- Catalogue Number
- BeC.06.20
- Description
- A painted plaster cast that is a realistic rendering of a pack horse walking; saddled, packed with the diamond hitch. The horse is light brown with a blond mane and tail, white face and white socks (bottom of legs). Brand 0 with _( bar) underneath) viewer’s left flank. The blanket is red and the pa…
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- Title
- Roany
- Date
- 1940
- Dimensions
- 15.0 x 7.5 x 17.0 cm
- Description
- A painted plaster cast that is a realistic rendering of a pack horse walking; saddled, packed with the diamond hitch. The horse is light brown with a blond mane and tail, white face and white socks (bottom of legs). Brand 0 with _( bar) underneath) viewer’s left flank. The blanket is red and the pack is dirty white, string tied to girth strap support.
- Subject
- animal
- horse
- packhorse
- Charlie Beil
- Credit
- Gift of John and Isamay Ballachey, Calgary, 2012
- Catalogue Number
- BeC.06.20
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- Date
- prior to 1962
- Catalogue Number
- EeC.06.01 a-c
- Description
- A bird made out of ivory soars with wings outstretched. Wings and tail have scalloped edges to indicate feathers. Nicely carved head with small black eyes, short legs. Hole in breast of seagull has a removable tapered bone stick that can be stuck into stone base. Stone base is shaped like a he…
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Dimensions
- 11.4 x 10.3 x 7.5 cm
- Description
- A bird made out of ivory soars with wings outstretched. Wings and tail have scalloped edges to indicate feathers. Nicely carved head with small black eyes, short legs. Hole in breast of seagull has a removable tapered bone stick that can be stuck into stone base. Stone base is shaped like a headless seal.Base is carved with 1616, indicating the artist’s disc number.a) White post. 4.5 cm long, 0.2cm at tip, 0.4 cm at base. b) Black base. Dimensions 5.5cm x 7.5cm x 5.7 cmc) White bird. Dimensions 10.3cm x 3.0 cm x 1.2 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- EeC.06.01 a-c
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Black Bear and Woodsman
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- Date
- 1948
- Medium
- watercolor on paper
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.05.01
- Description
- A bear and a man in the woods is the subject matter in this image. To the left a black bear stands on his back two legs and roars at the man that is located on the right side. Between the man and the bear is a tree covered in snow and there are several other trees surrounding them as well. The man…
- Title
- Black Bear and Woodsman
- Date
- 1948
- Medium
- watercolor on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.6 x 48.4 cm
- Description
- A bear and a man in the woods is the subject matter in this image. To the left a black bear stands on his back two legs and roars at the man that is located on the right side. Between the man and the bear is a tree covered in snow and there are several other trees surrounding them as well. The man looks frightened and has his arms half up in the air almost as if he is about to run away. In the foreground and around there feet is a lot of snow. The woodsman is wearing a hat and a heavy coat with a belt tied tight at the center.
- Subject
- figure
- male
- animal
- black bear
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- Credit
- Gift of Clarence Ingwall Tillenius, Winnipeg, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.05.01
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- Date
- prior to 1962
- Catalogue Number
- SkD.06.03a,b
- Description
- black stone, pair of otters sitting on their haunches, front feet tight against the body, carved feet and features, eyes and nose inlaid with a white substance
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- Title
- Pair of Otters
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Dimensions
- 9.0 x 3.0 cm
- Description
- black stone, pair of otters sitting on their haunches, front feet tight against the body, carved feet and features, eyes and nose inlaid with a white substance
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- SkD.06.03a,b
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- Date
- prior to 1962
- Catalogue Number
- SkD.06.01
- Description
- mottled green stone, very stylized bird, flat bottom as if swimming, head and neck outstretched, pointed slightly up, round eyes and mouth faintly scribed
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- Title
- Murre
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Dimensions
- 5.0 x 4.8 x 14.0 cm
- Description
- mottled green stone, very stylized bird, flat bottom as if swimming, head and neck outstretched, pointed slightly up, round eyes and mouth faintly scribed
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- SkD.06.01
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- Date
- prior to 1962
- Catalogue Number
- SkD.06.02
- Description
- A green grey stone, bear is standing on very solid legs and feet. His forelegs cover his ears. Carved toes. Incised features , carved ears, whiskers indicated.
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- Title
- Bear
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Dimensions
- 11.0 x 6.5 cm
- Description
- A green grey stone, bear is standing on very solid legs and feet. His forelegs cover his ears. Carved toes. Incised features , carved ears, whiskers indicated.
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- SkD.06.02
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- Artist
- Eeteeolie
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Catalogue Number
- EeT.06.01 a-c
- Description
- (a) Walrus head and neck area only. The walrus head is pointing straight up with its nose in the air. The neck area has many lines incised in it from one side to the other. The eyes, nose and mouth detail are also incised in to the stone. The stone color is a gray/green. (b,c) Walrus teeth made fr…
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- Artist
- Eeteeolie
- Title
- Walrus Head
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Dimensions
- 24.0 x 16.0 cm
- Description
- (a) Walrus head and neck area only. The walrus head is pointing straight up with its nose in the air. The neck area has many lines incised in it from one side to the other. The eyes, nose and mouth detail are also incised in to the stone. The stone color is a gray/green. (b,c) Walrus teeth made from wood, very golden brown in color and measuring 10cm in length.
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- EeT.06.01 a-c
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- Artist
- Etegokjak
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Catalogue Number
- EtE.06.01 a,b
- Description
- Black stone, bird with head high and tilted back, wings carved, features incised, hole drilled in bottom near tail. The bird sits on a wooden peg which is inserted into a hole drilled in the base. The base is flat bottomed with a rounded top ca 2.5 at highest point, a very abstract representat…
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- Artist
- Etegokjak
- Title
- Bird on Seal
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Dimensions
- 8.5 x 9.0 x 11.5 cm
- Description
- Black stone, bird with head high and tilted back, wings carved, features incised, hole drilled in bottom near tail. The bird sits on a wooden peg which is inserted into a hole drilled in the base. The base is flat bottomed with a rounded top ca 2.5 at highest point, a very abstract representation of a seal with only a back flipper recognizable
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- EtE.06.01 a,b
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