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Tracking the Moose
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- Date
- prior to 1878
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- KrC.02.02
- Description
- General colour: grey, green, blue, pink. A figure wearing snow shoes, a green coat with a red sash and a red tam with feathers in it, carries a rifle over his right shoulder and trudges to the left. Behind to the right is a snow covered rock. To the left are trees. Grey clouds in a pink and blue sk…
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- Title
- Tracking the Moose
- Date
- prior to 1878
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 21.9 x 26.1 cm
- Description
- General colour: grey, green, blue, pink. A figure wearing snow shoes, a green coat with a red sash and a red tam with feathers in it, carries a rifle over his right shoulder and trudges to the left. Behind to the right is a snow covered rock. To the left are trees. Grey clouds in a pink and blue sky come down to meet a distant hill.
- Subject
- figure, male
- winter
- hunting
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1971
- Catalogue Number
- KrC.02.02
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- Date
- 1960
- Medium
- stencil on paper
- Catalogue Number
- NiV.04.02
- Description
- General colour: blue and black on white. A blue figure fills the lower two thirds of the picture. He looks up, aims an arrow at the four black birds flying to the right of the top.
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- Title
- The Archer
- Date
- 1960
- Medium
- stencil on paper
- Dimensions
- 54.3 x 30.1 cm
- Description
- General colour: blue and black on white. A blue figure fills the lower two thirds of the picture. He looks up, aims an arrow at the four black birds flying to the right of the top.
- Subject
- figure, male
- animal, bird
- hunting
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1971
- Catalogue Number
- NiV.04.02
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Sled and Seal Cached on Snow Blocks
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- Date
- 1960
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- NiV.04.01
- Description
- General colour: black and blue on white. Left of center is a short column of blue blocks. Right of center is another chunk of blue blocks. Sitting on top of these blocks is a long black sled (left) and a small black seal (right).
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- Title
- Sled and Seal Cached on Snow Blocks
- Date
- 1960
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 19.9 x 44.1 cm
- Description
- General colour: black and blue on white. Left of center is a short column of blue blocks. Right of center is another chunk of blue blocks. Sitting on top of these blocks is a long black sled (left) and a small black seal (right).
- Subject
- animal, seal
- hunting
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1971
- Catalogue Number
- NiV.04.01
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- Date
- 1960
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.3002 a-c
- Description
- Three wooden boomerangs. The top of each is slightly convex and the bottom surface is flat. One arm of each boomerang is tilted at a slight angle.a) Dark wood with painted aboriginal designs, in brown, black, white and yellow. The designs include geometric designs on the tips and an insect, a pe…
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- Title
- Boomerang
- Date
- 1960
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 0.8 (a); 23.0(b); 1.5 (c) x 6.0 (a); 8.0 (b); 6.0 (c) x 50.0 (a); 53.0 (b); 48.0 (c) cm
- Description
- Three wooden boomerangs. The top of each is slightly convex and the bottom surface is flat. One arm of each boomerang is tilted at a slight angle.a) Dark wood with painted aboriginal designs, in brown, black, white and yellow. The designs include geometric designs on the tips and an insect, a person, and a kangaroo. The back is stamped “MADE IN AUSTRALIA BY Bill On--.”b) Dark wood with very detailed painted aboriginal designs on the front in black, red, white and yellow. The painting includes geometric and concentric designs, an emu, a turtle, and two people. At the centre bent it’s marked “from CHERBOURG ABORIGINAL SETTLEMENT 1960. QLD. AUST.” and the back is marked with pen ink “BILL GORHAM.”c) Light and dark wood decorated with a stylized kangaroo on the front in brown, black, yellow and white. “Darwin N.T.” is writtten with marker on the front. The tips are also painted with stripes and wavey lines. There are two illegible stamps on the back.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.3002 a-c
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Inuit Hunter Spearing Seal
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- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- KeN.04.02
- Description
- tlc is a line rendering of an igloo with 2 humps; a parka clad man has his right arm raised and holding a speear which is pointing downwards towards a seal; the man and seal are black, the parka and leggings have white trim; off the right of the picture is an embossed circle, 2.8 dia. with letter i…
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- Title
- Inuit Hunter Spearing Seal
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 31.5 x 45.5 cm
- Description
- tlc is a line rendering of an igloo with 2 humps; a parka clad man has his right arm raised and holding a speear which is pointing downwards towards a seal; the man and seal are black, the parka and leggings have white trim; off the right of the picture is an embossed circle, 2.8 dia. with letter inside;Bottom reads “23/50 Dorset 1962 Kenoyouk”Back reads “#274 - DoR/Fg 1962-19”Canadian Eskimo Arts Council (CEAC) embossed chop in br
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- KeN.04.02
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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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- 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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- Artist
- Eejuka
- Date
- 1962
- Catalogue Number
- EeJ.06.01
- Description
- One piece, carved from narwhal tusk; knife blade and hilt 12.0 long with fish 7.9 butted up against centre of hilt. Carved fins and gills, round eyes inlaid with dark material. Knife and fish have a graceful curve.
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- Artist
- Eejuka
- Title
- Fish
- Date
- 1962
- Dimensions
- 19.9 x 3.7 cm
- Description
- One piece, carved from narwhal tusk; knife blade and hilt 12.0 long with fish 7.9 butted up against centre of hilt. Carved fins and gills, round eyes inlaid with dark material. Knife and fish have a graceful curve.
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- EeJ.06.01
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Harpooning a Walrus
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- Artist
- Isah Aviliaju
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- AvI.04.01
- Description
- A hunting scene. A hunter to the right of the picture is throwing a spear into the side of a walrus. A float is attached to the spear line. The images are in positive detail. The shape of the stone is indicated at the sides. A rectangular shape under the foot of the hunter has inscribed: Isah …
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- Artist
- Isah Aviliaju
- Title
- Harpooning a Walrus
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 43.5 x 61.0 cm
- Description
- A hunting scene. A hunter to the right of the picture is throwing a spear into the side of a walrus. A float is attached to the spear line. The images are in positive detail. The shape of the stone is indicated at the sides. A rectangular shape under the foot of the hunter has inscribed: Isah (Inuit symbols)Bottom text reads “20/30 ᑯᓕᓴᔭᒧ ᓴᓇᓯᒪᔪ ᐊᒍᑎ ᐊᐃᕕᒥ ᓇᐅᓕᓯᒪᔪ ᐊᐃᓴ ᐊᕕᓕᐊᔪ ᐳᕕᓂᑐ ᑯᐃᐱ ᑲᓇᑕ 1962”Text in image reads “ISAH ᐊᕕᓕᐊᔪ”
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- AvI.04.01
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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.
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.08.28 a-c
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- Date
- 1850 – 1900
- Material
- metal, steel; metal, brass; skin
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0026 a,b
- Description
- A strong, single edged hunting knife with a cross piece. The hilt of the knife is made of brass, and covered with leather. The blade is marked “Collins and Co. Hartford Serofino #17 (Galidad)”. (b) Sheath made of leather with steel tip and steel detailing. Leather is embossed with crown and leav…
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- Title
- Bowie Knife
- Date
- 1850 – 1900
- Material
- metal, steel; metal, brass; skin
- Dimensions
- 4.5 (widest point) x 37.0 cm
- Description
- A strong, single edged hunting knife with a cross piece. The hilt of the knife is made of brass, and covered with leather. The blade is marked “Collins and Co. Hartford Serofino #17 (Galidad)”. (b) Sheath made of leather with steel tip and steel detailing. Leather is embossed with crown and leaves. “LEGITIMUS” is stamped under the crown and the number ”10” is stamped on a cross piece above.
- Subject
- households
- hunting
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0026 a,b
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- Date
- 1960 – 1970
- Material
- wood; bone; feather; glass; skin; sinew
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0045
- Description
- Short spear with long white bone point tied to painted wooden handle with sinew. Handle carved with rough buffalo head near point painted black and yellow, with man's head at middle painted black hair with yellow cheeks and mouth. Bottom part painted green with red design, and green and yellow bulb…
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- Title
- Spear
- Date
- 1960 – 1970
- Material
- wood; bone; feather; glass; skin; sinew
- Dimensions
- 3.0 x 3.0 x 69.5 cm
- Description
- Short spear with long white bone point tied to painted wooden handle with sinew. Handle carved with rough buffalo head near point painted black and yellow, with man's head at middle painted black hair with yellow cheeks and mouth. Bottom part painted green with red design, and green and yellow bulbous form at end. Sections between carving and paint wrapped with bands of buckskin covered with brightly coloured beadwork. Three groups of feathers hang from ends of shaft and middle.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0045
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- Date
- 1960 – 1970
- Material
- wood; bone; skin; glass; feather
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0046
- Description
- Spear with carved bone head painted red at tip is fastened into split end of shaft which is made from tree branch with natural sharp bend into handle. End of handle, where bent branch joins, is two sided buffalo head with horns carved and painted black with red nose and red band beneath. Branch sha…
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- Title
- Spear
- Date
- 1960 – 1970
- Material
- wood; bone; skin; glass; feather
- Dimensions
- 15.0 x 83.0 cm
- Description
- Spear with carved bone head painted red at tip is fastened into split end of shaft which is made from tree branch with natural sharp bend into handle. End of handle, where bent branch joins, is two sided buffalo head with horns carved and painted black with red nose and red band beneath. Branch shaft has charred design of crosses, bars and circles along length, and is wrapped with a band of green and yellow beads over deerskin just below spearhead. A single eagle feather is tied at the middle of the handle.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- hunting
- animal
- buffalo
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0046
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With Scabbard Cutlass
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- Date
- 1850 – 1925
- Material
- metal; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0049 a,b
- Description
- A cutlass with wooden handle and scabbard trimmed with brass. (a) cutlass, knife with short thick curved blade inlaid with ornate silver organic and geometric pattern on one side. Thick brass S-shaped guard at hilt, handle of dark brown wood with inlaid brass diamond shape on either side, and tu…
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- Title
- With Scabbard Cutlass
- Date
- 1850 – 1925
- Material
- metal; wood
- Dimensions
- 7.5 x 2.3 x 41.0 cm
- Description
- A cutlass with wooden handle and scabbard trimmed with brass. (a) cutlass, knife with short thick curved blade inlaid with ornate silver organic and geometric pattern on one side. Thick brass S-shaped guard at hilt, handle of dark brown wood with inlaid brass diamond shape on either side, and turned brass cap at ends with floral medallion at tip. (b) scabbard, slightly curved wooden scabbard shaped to fit blade. Wide brass band at mouth has moth shaped plaque, with incised features, standing out from one side. Tip covered with wide brass band and small knob at end. Single narrow brass band girds middle of scabbard, with indication on wood that there may have been another band at one time .
- Subject
- warfare
- hunting
- fighting
- Japanese
- Edward S. Morse
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0049 a,b
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- Date
- 1965 – 1970
- Material
- antler; stone; skin
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.0010
- Description
- Long sturdy piece of elk antler with double prong at end with a heavy large stone clubhead resting in the crotch. The clubhead is secured with a strip of cowhide across the top tied securely around the stone with a leather thong which passes through holes drilled at the end of each prong and knotte…
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- Title
- Club
- Date
- 1965 – 1970
- Material
- antler; stone; skin
- Dimensions
- 11.5 x 14.5 x 60.5 cm
- Description
- Long sturdy piece of elk antler with double prong at end with a heavy large stone clubhead resting in the crotch. The clubhead is secured with a strip of cowhide across the top tied securely around the stone with a leather thong which passes through holes drilled at the end of each prong and knotted around the shaft of the antler handle. A leather thong strap passes through a hole drilled at the end of the handle.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- warfare
- hunting
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.0010
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- Date
- 1965 – 1975
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.0019
- Description
- Traditional boomerang which is dark brown wood that has, on one side, been incised and notched to create background for emu, bird, decoration.
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- Title
- Boomerang
- Date
- 1965 – 1975
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 12.5 x 1.4 x 49.0 cm
- Description
- Traditional boomerang which is dark brown wood that has, on one side, been incised and notched to create background for emu, bird, decoration.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.0019
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- Date
- 1850 – 1900
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.10.0028
- Description
- A flattened sack shaped metal flask with round bottom and long neck and seam along sides. Round brass collar at top of neck where flat round cap screws on. Cap has finger trigger at side which operates a shutter mechanism across a hole in the cap's centre surrounded by a threaded lip in order to em…
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- Title
- Shot Flask
- Date
- 1850 – 1900
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 3.5 x 8.8 x 17.7 cm
- Description
- A flattened sack shaped metal flask with round bottom and long neck and seam along sides. Round brass collar at top of neck where flat round cap screws on. Cap has finger trigger at side which operates a shutter mechanism across a hole in the cap's centre surrounded by a threaded lip in order to empty a measure of shot. Contains very small 1 mm round lead shot pellets. Stamped on brass cap "Improved best quality Sykes patent"
- Subject
- activities
- hunting
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.10.0028
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- Date
- 1850 – 1910
- Material
- horn; skin
- Catalogue Number
- 104.10.0029
- Description
- Very old dried and cracked bison? horn with tip broken off to leave small hole. Strap of buckskin thong tied around at tip and attached to another thong tied around at open broad end of horn.
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- Title
- Powder Horn
- Date
- 1850 – 1910
- Material
- horn; skin
- Dimensions
- 5.7 x 4.3 x 21.0 cm
- Description
- Very old dried and cracked bison? horn with tip broken off to leave small hole. Strap of buckskin thong tied around at tip and attached to another thong tied around at open broad end of horn.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.10.0029
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- Date
- 1850 – 1925
- Material
- stone
- Catalogue Number
- 104.24.0005
- Description
- Long thin flat piece of black stone, pointed at one end and with rounded point at other. One long side flat, the other bevelled to an edge.
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- Title
- Hide Scraper
- Date
- 1850 – 1925
- Material
- stone
- Dimensions
- 0.8 x 3.5 x 16.6 cm
- Description
- Long thin flat piece of black stone, pointed at one end and with rounded point at other. One long side flat, the other bevelled to an edge.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- households
- hunting
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.24.0005
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- Date
- 1850 – 1925
- Material
- wood; metal; skin; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 104.49.0004
- Description
- Very narrow thick steel blade flattened and flaring to curved edge with square hole at back for handle, blade painted yellow ochre colour. Handle seems a much newer commercial handle which has been cut off at the end and shaved to fit into hatchet head with a wooden wedge driven in to tighten. Han…
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- Title
- Tomahawk Ax
- Date
- 1850 – 1925
- Material
- wood; metal; skin; glass
- Dimensions
- 3.2 x 13.5 x 37.0 cm
- Description
- Very narrow thick steel blade flattened and flaring to curved edge with square hole at back for handle, blade painted yellow ochre colour. Handle seems a much newer commercial handle which has been cut off at the end and shaved to fit into hatchet head with a wooden wedge driven in to tighten. Handle wrapped at middle with loose fringed buckskin band, 11 cm, which is completely covered with a background of medium blue beads containing three bars of green beads outlined with dark blue beads. Bottom of handle wrapped with a wide fringed band of buckskin, 14 cm , sewn to fit along its length with black thread. Thong tied around top with long strip of untanned hide with white hairy surface.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.49.0004
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