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A Fishing Expedition

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Artist: Unknown

Date: c. 1970

Medium: watercolour on bark

Catalogue Number: UnK.05.01

Description: Story label on back of bark. Text on back of painting indicates horizontal; but probably intends vertical. Purchased in Australia. by Catharine Robb Whyte ca.1975. Barking and support done by Kensington Art Gallery, Calgary.

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Artist: Unknown

Title: A Fishing Expedition

Date: c. 1970

Medium: watercolour on bark

Dimensions: 42.7 x 22.4 cm

Description: Story label on back of bark. Text on back of painting indicates horizontal; but probably intends vertical. Purchased in Australia. by Catharine Robb Whyte ca.1975. Barking and support done by Kensington Art Gallery, Calgary.

Subject: activity, fishing

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: UnK.05.01

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Bubba Peibi

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Artist: Unknown

Date: c. 1970

Medium: watercolour on bark

Catalogue Number: UnK.05.02

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Bubba Peibi

Date: c. 1970

Medium: watercolour on bark

Dimensions: 46.0 x 20.9 cm

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: UnK.05.02

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Watercolour Painting

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Artist: Unknown

Date: 1937

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: UnK.05.22

Description: A watercolour painting showing two pyramids and pam trees with a reflection in a body of water. The painting is entirely in shades of orange. In the lower left corner is “1937” and in the lower right corner are the initials “W.V.G.”

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Watercolour Painting

Date: 1937

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 20.0 x 27.5 cm

Description: A watercolour painting showing two pyramids and pam trees with a reflection in a body of water. The painting is entirely in shades of orange. In the lower left corner is “1937” and in the lower right corner are the initials “W.V.G.”

Subject: pyramids; middle east; desert

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: UnK.05.22

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Inuit Man

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Artist: Unknown

Date: 1960 – 1970

Catalogue Number: UnK.06.03

Description: Miniature marble sculpture of a man standing with feet and arms splayed. Rudimentary clothing and facial details are incised.

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Inuit Man

Date: 1960 – 1970

Dimensions: 3.0 x 2.4 cm

Description: Miniature marble sculpture of a man standing with feet and arms splayed. Rudimentary clothing and facial details are incised.

Subject: figure, male

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: UnK.06.03

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Seal Group of 4

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Artist: Unknown

Date: 1962

Catalogue Number: UnK.06.16 a-d

Description: Group of seals carved from light green stone. (a) Irregular shaped base 1.2 high, has carved edges. On this base is a seal 3.0 x 6.0 x 3.5. (b) 2.6x7.2x2.5, lying on left side (c) 2.5 x6.0 x 3.5 lying on belly (d) 2.5 x 6.5 x 3.3 lying on belly. All have carved fins and tails, facial features…

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Seal Group of 4

Date: 1962

Description: Group of seals carved from light green stone. (a) Irregular shaped base 1.2 high, has carved edges. On this base is a seal 3.0 x 6.0 x 3.5. (b) 2.6x7.2x2.5, lying on left side (c) 2.5 x6.0 x 3.5 lying on belly (d) 2.5 x 6.5 x 3.3 lying on belly. All have carved fins and tails, facial features inscribed.

Subject: animal; seal; group

Credit: Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988

Catalogue Number: UnK.06.16 a-d

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Walrus Hunting

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Artist: Unknown

Date: 1960

Catalogue Number: UnK.06.17

Description: Three piece walrus hunting sculpture, hunter with twine to (1) float and (2) walrus.

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Walrus Hunting

Date: 1960

Description: Three piece walrus hunting sculpture, hunter with twine to (1) float and (2) walrus.

Subject: animal, seal; figure, male; hunting

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: UnK.06.17

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Hunter on Ice

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Artist: Unknown

Date: 1960

Catalogue Number: UnK.06.18

Description: Stone carving of a seal hunter on ice. The figure is bending over and looking at the ground. The figure is holding a spear made of ivory that has a leather cord. There is a carved pipe through a hole in one of the figure’s hands. The figure is affixed to a base with posts in the feet that insert in…

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Hunter on Ice

Date: 1960

Description: Stone carving of a seal hunter on ice. The figure is bending over and looking at the ground. The figure is holding a spear made of ivory that has a leather cord. There is a carved pipe through a hole in one of the figure’s hands. The figure is affixed to a base with posts in the feet that insert into holes.

Subject: figure, male; hunting

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: UnK.06.18

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Weasel

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Artist: Unknown

Date: 1960

Catalogue Number: UnK.06.19

Description: Small dark stone sculpture of a weasel standing on four legs.

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Weasel

Date: 1960

Dimensions: 4.0 x 2.5 x 16.4 cm

Description: Small dark stone sculpture of a weasel standing on four legs.

Subject: animal, weasel

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: UnK.06.19

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Twin Walruses

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Artist: Unknown

Date: 1960

Catalogue Number: UnK.06.21

Description: Twin Walruses carved of black stone. Ivory tusks. Incised facial features.

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Twin Walruses

Date: 1960

Dimensions: 5.0 x 13.0 x 10.0 cm

Description: Twin Walruses carved of black stone. Ivory tusks. Incised facial features.

Subject: animal, walrus

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: UnK.06.21

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Man with Loon

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Artist: Unknown

Date: 1965

Catalogue Number: UnK.06.62

Description: Sculpted man with loon. Standing man, facing left, holding loon bill with right mitten and supporting rest of bird with left mitten on bird's back; 71583 scratched on bottom; figure highly polished and standing on scored base; details in bird, clothing, face.

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Man with Loon

Date: 1965

Dimensions: 13.3 x 3.0 x 7.5 cm

Description: Sculpted man with loon. Standing man, facing left, holding loon bill with right mitten and supporting rest of bird with left mitten on bird's back; 71583 scratched on bottom; figure highly polished and standing on scored base; details in bird, clothing, face.

Subject: figure, male; animal, bird; loon

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: UnK.06.62

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Indian Girl

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Artist: Unknown

Date: 1965 – 1975

Medium: petit point on mesh

Catalogue Number: UnK.08.05

Description: The head of a small Indiginous girl, with braids, headband and feathers.

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Indian Girl

Date: 1965 – 1975

Medium: petit point on mesh

Dimensions: 10.0 x 8.0 cm

Description: The head of a small Indiginous girl, with braids, headband and feathers.

Subject: figure, child

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: UnK.08.05

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Indian Girl

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Artist: Unknown

Date: 1965 – 1975

Medium: petit point on mesh

Catalogue Number: UnK.08.06

Description: Head of a small Indigenous girl, short hair, cow lick, green headband with a feather.

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Indian Girl

Date: 1965 – 1975

Medium: petit point on mesh

Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.5 cm

Description: Head of a small Indigenous girl, short hair, cow lick, green headband with a feather.

Subject: figure, child

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: UnK.08.06

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Ulu, Scraper, Slingshot

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Artist: Unknown

Date: prior to 1988

Catalogue Number: UnK.08.28 a-c

Description: The typical Inuit Ulu has a light brown bone handel with a piece of metal stuck in the center to support the cutting piece. The cutting blade is triangular in shape with a rounded bottom edge. (b) 15.0 x 9.5 cm A light golden brown piece of bone cut and shaped into a scraper tool. This scraper is n…

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Ulu, Scraper, Slingshot

Date: prior to 1988

Dimensions: 15.2 x 12.5 cm

Description: The typical Inuit Ulu has a light brown bone handel with a piece of metal stuck in the center to support the cutting piece. The cutting blade is triangular in shape with a rounded bottom edge. (b) 15.0 x 9.5 cm A light golden brown piece of bone cut and shaped into a scraper tool. This scraper is narrow at one end for your hand and wider and thin at the other for the scraping action. At the narrow end there is a thin piece of skin threaded threw a hole and knotted used for hanging. (c) 89.0 x 4.5 cm A piece of skin with a wide spot in the center and a long strips stitched on either side used for a slingshot. The skin is light in color and also a light weight. At the end of one skin strip there is a hole and at the other there is a section that has been doubled up and stitched. The center piece has two holes in the center.

Subject: activity; hunting

Credit: Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988

Catalogue Number: UnK.08.28 a-c

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Bow Lake

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1935 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.004

Description: Meadow scene of orange, blues and green colours in the foreground. Small patches of evergreens are visible. Bow Lake and shore beyond the meadow.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake

Date: 1935 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: Meadow scene of orange, blues and green colours in the foreground. Small patches of evergreens are visible. Bow Lake and shore beyond the meadow.

Subject: landscape, Canadian Rockies; Bow Lake

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.004

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Hawaii

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.005

Description: Three trees dot the immediate foreground on the middle to right corner. Behind the trees is the ocean with it's colours of blues and greenish yellow tints of colour. The upper half of the canvas depicts a sky of royal and cobalt bluish tints meeting the horizon line.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Hawaii

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: Three trees dot the immediate foreground on the middle to right corner. Behind the trees is the ocean with it's colours of blues and greenish yellow tints of colour. The upper half of the canvas depicts a sky of royal and cobalt bluish tints meeting the horizon line.

Subject: seascape; Hawaii

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.005

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Temple Mountain from Above Temple Lodge

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1938 – 1946

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.006

Description: Temple Mountain with its various bluish tones in the mid ground appears behind the sparse patches of evergreen slopes in the foregound.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Temple Mountain from Above Temple Lodge

Date: 1938 – 1946

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: Temple Mountain with its various bluish tones in the mid ground appears behind the sparse patches of evergreen slopes in the foregound.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Mt. Temple

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.006

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Yoho Valley

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.007

Description: White and grey cloud cover against a blue sky encompasses most of the canvas. A mountain rock silhouette against the skyline with a row of trees in the immediate foreground.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Yoho Valley

Date: 1930 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: White and grey cloud cover against a blue sky encompasses most of the canvas. A mountain rock silhouette against the skyline with a row of trees in the immediate foreground.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Yoho

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.007

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Hawaii

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.009

Description: A row of houses and barns in the foreground. Green fields sectioned off by dark green boundary in the foreground. Behind the row of houses and palm trees lie green and blue mountains.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Hawaii

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: A row of houses and barns in the foreground. Green fields sectioned off by dark green boundary in the foreground. Behind the row of houses and palm trees lie green and blue mountains.