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Bracelet

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Date: 2001

Material: metal

Catalogue Number: 103.01.1040

Description: A simple flat copper bracelet folded under .50cm at each end. “HELEN LOVE GEORGE” is crudely engraved on the outside middle.

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Title: Bracelet

Date: 2001

Material: metal

Dimensions: 2.0 x 17.7 cm

Description: A simple flat copper bracelet folded under .50cm at each end. “HELEN LOVE GEORGE” is crudely engraved on the outside middle.

Subject: households; adornment

Credit: Gift of anonymous, 2001

Catalogue Number: 103.01.1040

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T-Shirt

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Date: 2005

Material: fibre

Catalogue Number: 103.05.1204

Description: white shirt with brown print “FAY HUT RECONSTRUCTION” written above two cabins. Top cabin “Lost in a forest fire 2003” written on roof and underneath cabin “c. 1927” Beside bottom cabin ““Making History Happen” July 2005” and underneath bottom cabin “Alpine Club of Canada G.W. Boles”

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Title: T-Shirt

Date: 2005

Material: fibre

Dimensions: 79.5 x 74.0 cm

Description: white shirt with brown print “FAY HUT RECONSTRUCTION” written above two cabins. Top cabin “Lost in a forest fire 2003” written on roof and underneath cabin “c. 1927” Beside bottom cabin ““Making History Happen” July 2005” and underneath bottom cabin “Alpine Club of Canada G.W. Boles”

Subject: Fay Hut; Prospectors Valley; Kootenay National Park; British Columbia; Boles

Credit: Gift of Jeannette Fish, Banff, 2017

Catalogue Number: 103.05.1204

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Shoulder Bag

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Date: 2008

Material: fabric; plastic; metal

Catalogue Number: 103.08.1143

Description: A small bag from Nepal, woven on the back, and woven and embroidered on the front, with a multi-coloured corded strap (135.0cm) sewn onto the side of the bag, extending from the fringed bottom 4.0cm suspended from a blue plastic bead, to an over-the-shoulder cord. The front part is backed by a blac…

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Title: Shoulder Bag

Date: 2008

Material: fabric; plastic; metal

Dimensions: 15.5 x 19.0 cm

Description: A small bag from Nepal, woven on the back, and woven and embroidered on the front, with a multi-coloured corded strap (135.0cm) sewn onto the side of the bag, extending from the fringed bottom 4.0cm suspended from a blue plastic bead, to an over-the-shoulder cord. The front part is backed by a black muslin cotton piece that forms a separate compartment. There is a plastic and metal black zipper (15.0cm) on the top portion of the bag (one compartment) and the same kind and size of zipper lower down (5.0cm) opening onto a separate compartment. The bottom front of the bag 13.5x15.0cm wide) is gold satin with a circular embroidered design; the top part (5.0x15.0cm wide) is a multi-coloured woven design the same as the entire back of the bag. The paper price tag is attached by a piece of clear plastic; it reads “TEN THOUSAND VILLAGES” in red lettering and “ MADE IN/FABRIQUE DU NEPAL/NEPAL 5900165” in black lettering and the barcode underneath.

Subject: households; clothing; accessory; crafts; Nepal; Mary Andrews

Credit: Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009

Catalogue Number: 103.08.1143

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Medal

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Date: 2002

Material: metal; enamel; fibre; paper

Catalogue Number: 103.09.1222 a,b

Description: A grosgrain ribbon in red and white (colours of the Austrian flag) (a) is folded into the shape of a triangle. A metal pin set with a wide pin bar is inserted into the fold and (b) a grosgrain ribbon in red and white (colours of the Austrian flag) is folded into the shape of a small bow and sewn on…

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Title: Medal

Date: 2002

Material: metal; enamel; fibre; paper

Dimensions: 4.5 x 10.5 cm

Description: A grosgrain ribbon in red and white (colours of the Austrian flag) (a) is folded into the shape of a triangle. A metal pin set with a wide pin bar is inserted into the fold and (b) a grosgrain ribbon in red and white (colours of the Austrian flag) is folded into the shape of a small bow and sewn onto a metal back of a tie-tack style (spike and clutch closure attachment) lapel pin. (a) A grosgrain ribbon in red and white (colours of the Austrian flag) is folded into the shape of a triangle. A metal pin set with a wide pin bar is inserted into the fold. The hinged pin comes through the fabric at the back displaying a barrel-type catch for closing. A silver-coloured metal hook is sewn onto the top part; this hooks through a silver-coloured rivet in the bottom of the folded triangular-shaped ribbon and attaches to a metal ring, which in turn is attached to a ring soldered to the top part of the back of a heraldic gold-coloured stylized eagle, wings outstretched, embossed with ten divisional/regimental shields, one under the head and nine on the tips of the its feathers. There is a second ring soldered onto the bottom back of the eagle, suspended from which is a gold-coloured Maltese cross with webbed design surface and a flat-surfaced Christian cross in the centre.(b) A grosgrain ribbon in red and white (colours of the Austrian flag) is folded into the shape of a small bow and sewn onto a metal back of a tie-tack style (spike and clutch closure attachment) lapel pin. The size is (2.5 wide x 1 width x 1cm deep).The medal and lapel pin are stored in a red-paper covered metal hinged box (black bottom) lined with white satin on the inside cover and white faux velvet on the container part with depressions made for the medal and the lapel pin. Gold script with the jeweller’s particulars “Friedrich Orth Wien seit 1840” is embossed on the inside cover. A heraldic eagle is embossed in gold on the top of the box lid.

Subject: Golden Order of Merit of the Republik of Austria; award; guiding; climbing; skiing; humanitarian; businessman; Hans Gmoser

Credit: Gift of Margaret Gmoser, Harvie Heights, 2008

Catalogue Number: 103.09.1222 a,b

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Mountaineering Medal

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Date: 2006

Material: metal; enamel

Catalogue Number: 103.09.1240

Description: A charcoal-coloured, metal, oblong medal with an embossed rope around the rim, a ram’s head on top, an enamel, green, grey and white shield in the middle with two crossed ice axes behind, a coiled rope under that, and raised lettering “THE ALPINE CLUB OF CANADA” arced around the bottom.

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Title: Mountaineering Medal

Date: 2006

Material: metal; enamel

Dimensions: 7.2 x 8.0 cm

Description: A charcoal-coloured, metal, oblong medal with an embossed rope around the rim, a ram’s head on top, an enamel, green, grey and white shield in the middle with two crossed ice axes behind, a coiled rope under that, and raised lettering “THE ALPINE CLUB OF CANADA” arced around the bottom.

Subject: award; sports; mountaineering; The Alpine Club of Canada; Silver Rope Award

Credit: Gift of Alpine Club of Canada, Canmore, 2010

Catalogue Number: 103.09.1240

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Placemat

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Date: 2003

Material: paper; plastic

Catalogue Number: 104.20.1140 a-c

Description: Three double-sided, plastic-covered scenic placemats with: (a) having one coloured photographic reproduction of Bow Lake on one side and a black-and-white photographic reproduction of Crowfoot Glacier on the other; (b,c) Alberta’s wildflowers on one side of both; (b) a colour photograph reproductio…

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Title: Placemat

Date: 2003

Material: paper; plastic

Dimensions: 29.0 x 44.2 cm

Description: Three double-sided, plastic-covered scenic placemats with: (a) having one coloured photographic reproduction of Bow Lake on one side and a black-and-white photographic reproduction of Crowfoot Glacier on the other; (b,c) Alberta’s wildflowers on one side of both; (b) a colour photograph reproduction of Lake Louise; (c) a colour photographic reproduction of Moraine Lake. (a) The lower half of the photograph is the lake and shoreline and the top half is mountains and sky. The foreground of the lake’s shore is in the shade and mostly dark, except for a bit of green vegetation in the viewer’s extreme left-hand corner and some green bushes bunched together in the lower middle. Some sunlight hits part of the brown-coloured vegetation and logs. There are parts of dark branches of a spruce tree from top to bottom on the viewer’s left; mid-centre the shore juts out and further down, a log with some branches. On the viewer’s right there are heavy green branches, the bottom part in the shade, that form part of a spruce tree from top to bottom. The lake is sunlit from the left with reflections of the mountains in the shimmering water. The shore beyond is lined with trees and the grey mountains, with some snow on the peaks, above and further to the viewer’s right, a glimpse of a glacier. On the viewer’s far right some green vegetation and than a rust-coloured moraine, leading up to a mountain barely discernable through the spruce tree branches. The sky is blue with white, puffy clouds. On the white border, printed in black script, in viewer’s left-hand bottom corner “Bow Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada”; on the white border, printed in black italics, in viewer’s right-hand bottom corner “Photo Don Harmon” and underneath it “Distributed b Byron Harmon Photos, P.O. Box 490, Banff, Alberta”. On the opposite side of the placemat is a copy of a black-and-white photograph by Byron Harmon of Crowfoot Glacier in 1917. The foreground is branches, vegetation and one large spruce tree, on the viewer’s far right, that rises almost to the top of the photograph. Mid-centre, four packhorses, carrying their diamond-hitch loads, are grazing near two spruce trees. A bank of trees behind the horses rises steadily to the viewer’s right and the giant Crowfoot Glacier, with three complete ‘toes’, to the viewer’s right and one incomplete ‘toe’ on the left, makes up the top-half, except for a bit of sky, mid-to-far left. On the white border, in viewer’s left-hand bottom corner, printed in black lettering, is “Crowfoot Glacier 1917” and on the right-hand bottom corner “Photo B. Harmon”.(b) and (c): on one side, in the middle of the placemats is a large rectangle with a white background and “Wild Flowers of the Canadian Rockies” printed in script-style, in dark pink ink. A pink wild rose, open, a bulb without petals, and two stems with leaves, are mid-centre to viewer’s left. “Wild Rose” is printed in black script to the the left and “Alberta’s Floral Emblem” is printed, to the right of the rose, in light blue script. The outside edge of the placemat has 16 brown-framed boxes with pictures and the printed name of the following flowers: starting from viewer’s left top, clockwise: “Blue Flax”, “Yellow Vetch”, “Indian Paintbrush”, ”Pink Pussy Toes”, “Buffalo Berry”, “Heart-Leaf Arnica”, “Hare Bells”, “Tiger Lily”, “Sagebrush Buttercup”, “Wood Violet”, “Crocus”, “American Vetch” , “Strawberry”, “Yellow Columbine” , and “Fire Weed”. On the other other side of (b) (30.0x44.20cm wide), the photo is dominated by a summer view of Lake Louise, the Victoria Glacier behind, and the front lawn and swimming pool of Chateau Lake Louise. The foreground is made up, on viewer’s left, of: lawn and walkway, fence and lake walkway, three people walking, one person standing, one person sitting at a table, three spruce trees, three horses with riders, and red, yellow and white poppies. In the foreground, on viewer’s middle and right, are two more horses with riders, three people on the walkway, two people sitting on chairs at a table, more poppies, spruce trees and a white roofless structure, with openings all around, that surrounds a swimming pool with people, one diving in midair. The middle of the scene is the turquoise-blue waters of Lake Louise, with the reflection of Victoria Glacier, and a canoe with two people in it. The rest of the scene is mountains in shade on the viewer’s left, the sunlit Victoria Glacier in the middle, and wooded mountains to the right. The sky is a deep blue. On the white border, viewer’s left, printed in black ink “Distributed by United News (wholesalers) Ltd., Calgary, Alberta, Canada”; in the middle, printed in black, “LAKE LOUISE” and underneath, “BANFF NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA, CANADA”. On the white border, viewer’s right-hand bottom corner, printed in black ink, “A Traveltime Canada Placemat / PMS-6218” and underneath, “printed in Canada by lawson graphics pacific limited vancouver, british columbia”. The other side of (c) (30.3x44.4cm wide) is a summer image of Moraine Lake with six of the mountain peaks behind it. The foreground is spruce trees, rocks and the blue waters of Moraine Lake. To the viewer’s left is the top of a spruce tree extending to the grey moraine above, then two more spruce trees, grey rocks, a brown rocky path leading to the viewer’s right, a small coniferous tree, and at viewer’s far right, a large spruce tree reaching the top of the image. In the viewer’s right-hand bottom corner, the words “DON HARMON” is printed in yellow. Water can seen through the trees and the reflection of the mountains and trees is discernible. Above the moraine and trees on the viewer’s far left is a shaded tree-covered slope reaching the top of the image. Coniferous trees line the lake shore, above which moraine and snow move from the five mountain peaks, toward the lake. The sky is bright blue above the grey, granite mountains, that have some snow on them. On the white border, viewer’s left-hand bottom corner, printed in black ink “Distributed by United News (wholesalers) Ltd., Calgary, Alberta, Canada” and underneath “Photo by Don Harmon”; in the middle, in black ink “MORAINE LAKE” and underneath “BANFF NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA, CANADA”; in the viewer’s right-hand bottom corner, printed in black ink, “A Traveltime Canada Placemat / PMS-6218” and underneath, “printed in Canada by lawson graphics pacific limited vancouver, british columbia”.

Subject: households; kitchen; photograph; landscape; mountain; lake; Rockies; wildflower

Credit: Gift of Ursula Welford, Thorold, 2003

Catalogue Number: 104.20.1140 a-c

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Artist Assemblage

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Date: 2001 – 2003

Material: paint; plastic; fibre; metal; wood; ceramic

Catalogue Number: 104.39.1019

Description: Collection of painting tools including: an apron; 2 paint brushes; 2 plastic plates; a ceramic bowl; a nutcracker; a pair of scissors; a pallette knife; a plaster knife; and 5 cut paint tubes. All pieces are covered in oil paint.

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Title: Artist Assemblage

Date: 2001 – 2003

Material: paint; plastic; fibre; metal; wood; ceramic

Dimensions: 61.0 (apron) x 79.0 (apron) cm

Description: Collection of painting tools including: an apron; 2 paint brushes; 2 plastic plates; a ceramic bowl; a nutcracker; a pair of scissors; a pallette knife; a plaster knife; and 5 cut paint tubes. All pieces are covered in oil paint.

Subject: crafts; painting; Maureen Fair; flowers

Credit: Gift and purchased from Maureen Fair, Canmore, 2002

Catalogue Number: 104.39.1019

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Summit Canister

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Date: 2005

Material: plastic; paper

Catalogue Number: 105.02.1175

Description: A plastic container with a white paper lid surrounded by black plastic. There is a small round hole in the centre of the paper lid. On the front is black lettering (outlined in black) “ALBERTA CENTENNIAL MOUNTAIN EXPEDITION”. There is a black line simulating mountains over the writing, and the sole…

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Title: Summit Canister

Date: 2005

Material: plastic; paper

Dimensions: 17.0 x 9.0 cm

Description: A plastic container with a white paper lid surrounded by black plastic. There is a small round hole in the centre of the paper lid. On the front is black lettering (outlined in black) “ALBERTA CENTENNIAL MOUNTAIN EXPEDITION”. There is a black line simulating mountains over the writing, and the sole of a boot, viewer’s left with “AC” printed, then a simulated mountain with “2005” and on the heel of the sole an “E”. On the bottom of the container there is a raised triangle with a “2” in the middle, underneath that, “PRETIUM”, and underneath that , viewer’s right “16”.

Subject: commemorative; sports; mountain climbing; summit; Alberta Centennial Mountain Expedition

Credit: Gift of Alpine Club of Canada, Canmore, 2010

Catalogue Number: 105.02.1175

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Climbing Rope

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Date: 2004

Material: fibre; plastic; glue

Catalogue Number: 108.04.1154

Description: A grey fibre rope, coiled, wrapped round, and tied with a butterfly coil knot. The rope is kept from fraying and coming apart by secured ends with white adhesive tape on the tips, and black duct tape above that.

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Title: Climbing Rope

Date: 2004

Material: fibre; plastic; glue

Dimensions: 1.50 x 105.0 cm

Description: A grey fibre rope, coiled, wrapped round, and tied with a butterfly coil knot. The rope is kept from fraying and coming apart by secured ends with white adhesive tape on the tips, and black duct tape above that.

Subject: sports; mountains; climbing; Ken Jones

Credit: Gift of Bridget Jones, 2009

Catalogue Number: 108.04.1154

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View from The Rock Pile, Moraine Lake

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Artist: Mark A. Brennan (1968 – , Canadian)

Date: 2007

Medium: print on paper

Catalogue Number: BeM.04.01

Description: General colours of grey, white, green, purple, grey, gold, black and blue. In the foreground is a rock pile painted in shades of purple, grey and green, and to the viewer’s extreme right, the blue of the north end of Moraine Lake. Above the rock pile to the viewer’s left are a stand of coniferous t…

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Artist: Mark A. Brennan (1968 – , Canadian)

Title: View from The Rock Pile, Moraine Lake

Date: 2007

Medium: print on paper

Dimensions: 20.2 x 24.7 cm

Description: General colours of grey, white, green, purple, grey, gold, black and blue. In the foreground is a rock pile painted in shades of purple, grey and green, and to the viewer’s extreme right, the blue of the north end of Moraine Lake. Above the rock pile to the viewer’s left are a stand of coniferous tree becoming sparser (seven trees) as the eye turns to the right ending at the edge of the rock pile. To the viewer’s left, above the foreground trees, are hills covered in snow and trees and the massive grey, green, and brown Tower of Babel mountain mid- to right. Below the Tower and to the right is the dark grey and black rock slide, sparsely covered with trees, which rises to the slate-coloured mountain. Snow-covered chutes and gullies lined with trees rise from behind the rock pile to the viewer’s extreme right.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Tower of Babel; Morraine Lake

Credit: Gift of Kerry Guenter, 2008

Catalogue Number: BeM.04.01

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Lone Tree Below Illecillewaet Glacier

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Artist: Dianne Bos (1956 – , Canadian)

Date: 2000

Medium: photograph on photographic paper

Catalogue Number: BoD.18.01

Description: Colour photograph of tree in foreground. Behind it there is a mountain landscape. Around the tree is a rocky area. Clouds extend across the sky.

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Artist: Dianne Bos (1956 – , Canadian)

Title: Lone Tree Below Illecillewaet Glacier

Date: 2000

Medium: photograph on photographic paper

Description: Colour photograph of tree in foreground. Behind it there is a mountain landscape. Around the tree is a rocky area. Clouds extend across the sky.

Subject: botanical; tree; landscape; Canadian Rockies; Illecillewaet Glacier

Credit: Purchased from Robert Smith, Banff, 2001

Catalogue Number: BoD.18.01

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Mount Robson, Canada

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Artist: Joan Brown

Date: 2007

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: BrJ.02.01

Description: An oil painting, unframed, on canvas and mounted on a wooden frame, of Mount Robson in B.C. The dominant colours are blue, white, and black. The bottom half of the painting is the rock, snow and ice of the glacier; the middle portion is the towering snowcapped peak of Mount Robson with other snowca…

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Artist: Joan Brown

Title: Mount Robson, Canada

Date: 2007

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 41.0 x 51.5 cm

Description: An oil painting, unframed, on canvas and mounted on a wooden frame, of Mount Robson in B.C. The dominant colours are blue, white, and black. The bottom half of the painting is the rock, snow and ice of the glacier; the middle portion is the towering snowcapped peak of Mount Robson with other snowcapped peaks behind. The top-third is the sky clear light blue and white above the mountains turning to blue clouds above. The painting is signed (printed) in black ink brhc: “JBrown 07” and a “c” in a circle in blue ink to the left of the signature. Au verso, middle of the top of frame, written in magenta ink “20” ”, to the right of that “Mt Robson Canadian Rockies”, on the side viewer’s left “16” ”, and on the bottom in magenta ink, viewer’s left “Title: Mount Robson, Canada”, to the right, in magenta ink, “Artist: Joan A. Brown 03 07”, and underneath that “10 #mtrobsn 07”