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- Date
- 1910 – 1960
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.1084 a,b
- Description
- A brass (?) mortar and pestle. The urn-shaped mortar has two squared handles. The flattened ends of the pestle are circular and joined to the shaft which has a ring at the centre.
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- Title
- Mortar; Pestle
- Date
- 1910 – 1960
- Material
- metal
- Description
- A brass (?) mortar and pestle. The urn-shaped mortar has two squared handles. The flattened ends of the pestle are circular and joined to the shaft which has a ring at the centre.
- Subject
- households
- Jimmy Simpson
- Credit
- Gift of James (Sr.) Simpson, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.1084 a,b
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- Date
- 1910 – 1971
- Material
- ceramic
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.1020 a,b
- Description
- A dark-coloured ceramic pestle broken in two pieces.
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- Title
- Pestle
- Date
- 1910 – 1971
- Material
- ceramic
- Description
- A dark-coloured ceramic pestle broken in two pieces.
- Subject
- households
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1978
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.1020 a,b
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- Date
- 1850 – 1925
- Material
- stone
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0031
- Description
- A grey rock rounded at one end and flat at bottom with groove carved around near rounded end and indentations on opposite sides below groove, groove and indentations are probably finger holds .
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- Title
- Pestle
- Date
- 1850 – 1925
- Material
- stone
- Dimensions
- 13.0 x 8.0 x 9.5 cm
- Description
- A grey rock rounded at one end and flat at bottom with groove carved around near rounded end and indentations on opposite sides below groove, groove and indentations are probably finger holds .
- Subject
- Indigenous
- households
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0031
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- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- fibre, cotton; paper; leaf, tobacco
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0031
- Description
- A cotton Bull Durham tobacco bag with a drawstring at the neck and a circular paper label attached reading “None genuine without the Bull on each package” and a picture of a bull. A paper stamp label stuck on the front of the bag reads “TOBACCO” and there is a red paper strip stuck on next to it. …
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- Title
- Tobacco Bag
- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- fibre, cotton; paper; leaf, tobacco
- Dimensions
- 8.5 x 5.0 x 3.5 cm
- Description
- A cotton Bull Durham tobacco bag with a drawstring at the neck and a circular paper label attached reading “None genuine without the Bull on each package” and a picture of a bull. A paper stamp label stuck on the front of the bag reads “TOBACCO” and there is a red paper strip stuck on next to it. The bag is full of tobacco.
- Subject
- households
- smoking
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0031
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- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- fibre, cotton; paper
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0032 a-c
- Description
- Three empty cotton “Bull Durham” tobacco bags, each with a drawstring at the neck and a circular paper tag attached to the drawstring reading “None genuine without the Bull on each package” and a picture of a bull. One bag, (b), has part of a torn paper strip at the top reading “ONE FIF...”
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- Title
- Tobacco Bag
- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- fibre, cotton; paper
- Dimensions
- 9.0 x 0.3 x 6.2 cm
- Description
- Three empty cotton “Bull Durham” tobacco bags, each with a drawstring at the neck and a circular paper tag attached to the drawstring reading “None genuine without the Bull on each package” and a picture of a bull. One bag, (b), has part of a torn paper strip at the top reading “ONE FIF...”
- Subject
- households
- smoking
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0032 a-c
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- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- fibre; paper
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0033
- Description
- A cloth Bull Durham tobacco bag with a yellow drawstring at the neck and a tag hanging from the string reading “None genuine without the Bull on each package” and a picture of a bull.
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- Title
- Tobacco Bag
- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- fibre; paper
- Dimensions
- 12.5 x 0.3 x 9.0 cm
- Description
- A cloth Bull Durham tobacco bag with a yellow drawstring at the neck and a tag hanging from the string reading “None genuine without the Bull on each package” and a picture of a bull.
- Subject
- households
- smoking
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0033
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- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0035 a-c
- Description
- Three “Old Chum” tobacco bags, each printed on one side with “Old Chum best sun cured Virginia Tobacco - specially adapted for pipe use/made in Montreal, Canada, America” and with “Old Chum Virginia flake out Smoking Tobacco (cap trademark), manufactured by D. Ritchie & Co., Imperial Tobacco Compan…
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- Title
- Tobacco Bag
- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- fibre
- Dimensions
- 0.3 (a,b); 0.3 (c) x 10.6 (a,b); 10.5 (c) x 14.0 (a,b); 13.5 (c) cm
- Description
- Three “Old Chum” tobacco bags, each printed on one side with “Old Chum best sun cured Virginia Tobacco - specially adapted for pipe use/made in Montreal, Canada, America” and with “Old Chum Virginia flake out Smoking Tobacco (cap trademark), manufactured by D. Ritchie & Co., Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada Limited, Montreal” on the other side. a) Bag with yellow at the bottom and a wide orange band stitched on. The bag has a rounded bottom and one red and one blue drawstring through a casing at the top. b) Same markings and design as (a), but not faded, and with remnants of paper excise stamps along each side.c) Similar to (a), but with a square bottom and the orange band printed on the yellow fabric. The bag is made of lightweight cotton and has remnants of paper excise stamps along the sides.
- Subject
- households
- smoking
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0035 a-c
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- Date
- 1850 – 1900
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0200
- Description
- A lathe-turned round-dish, flat-bottomed box with a domed, lapping lid which fits flushly over a flange on the box body. Box and lid are painted a boxcar red and decorated with designs of circles and flowers, varnish over paint has oxidized. Interior of box has been painted a dark green.
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- Title
- Trinket Box
- Date
- 1850 – 1900
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 6.3 x 13.0 cm
- Description
- A lathe-turned round-dish, flat-bottomed box with a domed, lapping lid which fits flushly over a flange on the box body. Box and lid are painted a boxcar red and decorated with designs of circles and flowers, varnish over paint has oxidized. Interior of box has been painted a dark green.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0200
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- Date
- 1910 – 1935
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0222
- Description
- Lidded red wooden box with black interiors. Relief carved scene of two robed men, one of whom (at right) is pointing out something to the left. Sides of lid and box covered with shallow relief carved geometric diamond pattern. “China” stamped on base.
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- Title
- Trinket Box
- Date
- 1910 – 1935
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 4.0 x 7.0 x 13.0 cm
- Description
- Lidded red wooden box with black interiors. Relief carved scene of two robed men, one of whom (at right) is pointing out something to the left. Sides of lid and box covered with shallow relief carved geometric diamond pattern. “China” stamped on base.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- miniatures
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0222
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- Date
- 1910 – 1925
- Material
- bark; quill; grass
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0266
- Description
- A flat-based, straight-sided birchbark box with smooth, flush, overfitting lid. Walls decorated with pink and white porcupine quills, and walls of lid similarly decorated. The top of the lid is decorated with an overlapped pattern of brown and white quills in a floral motif, with "stamens" of green…
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- Title
- Trinket Box
- Date
- 1910 – 1925
- Material
- bark; quill; grass
- Dimensions
- 6.2 x 7.5 cm
- Description
- A flat-based, straight-sided birchbark box with smooth, flush, overfitting lid. Walls decorated with pink and white porcupine quills, and walls of lid similarly decorated. The top of the lid is decorated with an overlapped pattern of brown and white quills in a floral motif, with "stamens" of green quills bursting from the centre. About 5% of the quills are loose at one end, some quills lost. Thread which binds grass to rim of lid has frayed severely. Box contains six quartz crystals.
- Subject
- households
- Indigenous
- decorative
- quillwork
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0266
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- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- wood; metal, brass
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0131
- Description
- A rectangular, possibly mahogany, wooden box with a hinged lid. There is fancy brass inlay on the lid, and the bottom corners on the box are also finished with brass. The outside wood surface is cracking.
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- Title
- Trinket Box
- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- wood; metal, brass
- Dimensions
- 5.0 x 10.7 x 18.0 cm
- Description
- A rectangular, possibly mahogany, wooden box with a hinged lid. There is fancy brass inlay on the lid, and the bottom corners on the box are also finished with brass. The outside wood surface is cracking.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0131
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