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Occasional Chair
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.03.0011
- Date
- 1890 – 1910
- Material
- wood, ash
- Catalogue Number
- 102.03.0011
- Description
- A Windsor chair made from Canadian ash with an oval seat. The back support of this chair are vertical spindles attached to the seat, arm rests, and top rail. The arm rests contine as one piece as an additional support of the spindles.
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- Title
- Occasional Chair
- Date
- 1890 – 1910
- Material
- wood, ash
- Dimensions
- 88.0 x 59.0 x 65.0 cm
- Description
- A Windsor chair made from Canadian ash with an oval seat. The back support of this chair are vertical spindles attached to the seat, arm rests, and top rail. The arm rests contine as one piece as an additional support of the spindles.
- Subject
- households
- furniture
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.03.0011
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Occasional Chair
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.03.0020
- Date
- 1890 – 1910
- Material
- wood, mahogany; fibre, flax; hair, sheep
- Catalogue Number
- 102.03.0020
- Description
- An occasional ladder-back armchair that is upholstered in blue wool, and covered with a floral linen slipcover.
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- Title
- Occasional Chair
- Date
- 1890 – 1910
- Material
- wood, mahogany; fibre, flax; hair, sheep
- Dimensions
- 86.0 x 55.0 x 55.0 cm
- Description
- An occasional ladder-back armchair that is upholstered in blue wool, and covered with a floral linen slipcover.
- Subject
- households
- furniture
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.03.0020
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Occasional Chair
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.03.0025
- Date
- 1890 – 1910
- Material
- wood, mahogany; fibre, silk
- Catalogue Number
- 102.03.0025
- Description
- An enclosed armchair with mahogany trim and cabriole legs. The chair is upholstered in gold-coloured silk.
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- Title
- Occasional Chair
- Date
- 1890 – 1910
- Material
- wood, mahogany; fibre, silk
- Dimensions
- 98.5 x 71.0 x 71.0 cm
- Description
- An enclosed armchair with mahogany trim and cabriole legs. The chair is upholstered in gold-coloured silk.
- Subject
- households
- furniture
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.03.0025
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Occasional Chair
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.03.0027
- Date
- 1890 – 1910
- Material
- wood, mahogany; hair, sheep
- Catalogue Number
- 102.03.0027
- Description
- A mahogany ladder-back armchair. One of the rails is turned / hand-carved. The seat is finished with blue wool flannel upholstery and covered with a floral slipcover.
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- Title
- Occasional Chair
- Date
- 1890 – 1910
- Material
- wood, mahogany; hair, sheep
- Dimensions
- 82.0 x 57.0 x 53.5 cm
- Description
- A mahogany ladder-back armchair. One of the rails is turned / hand-carved. The seat is finished with blue wool flannel upholstery and covered with a floral slipcover.
- Subject
- households
- furniture
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.03.0027
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Occasional Chair
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.03.0033
- Date
- 1890 – 1910
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 102.03.0033
- Description
- A high backed ladder-back armchair of simple design. There are five horizontal slats in the backrest. The seat is constructed of four sections joined together with tongue-and-groove joints.
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- Title
- Occasional Chair
- Date
- 1890 – 1910
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 107.0 x 50.0 x 64.5 cm
- Description
- A high backed ladder-back armchair of simple design. There are five horizontal slats in the backrest. The seat is constructed of four sections joined together with tongue-and-groove joints.
- Subject
- households
- furniture
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.03.0033
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Storage Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.19.0021
- Date
- 1890 – 1900
- Material
- grass, reed
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0021
- Description
- A small rectangular basket with high sides. The basket is woven of natural coloured material with four coloured diamond shapes (white, red and black) on the side that have been made with dyed grass (an imbricated design).
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- Title
- Storage Basket
- Date
- 1890 – 1900
- Material
- grass, reed
- Dimensions
- 12.0 x 18.0 x 22.0 cm
- Description
- A small rectangular basket with high sides. The basket is woven of natural coloured material with four coloured diamond shapes (white, red and black) on the side that have been made with dyed grass (an imbricated design).
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0021
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Storage Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.19.0098
- Date
- 1890 – 1920
- Material
- wood, split willow shoots; plant, Devil’s Claw
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0098
- Description
- A coiled basket with flat base and straight, flaring sides, coils stitched with natural coloured split root ? with very dark brown design of same material. Design composed of three parallel lines running around the sides of the basket, along the top then slanting down, then along the bottom, then s…
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- Title
- Storage Basket
- Date
- 1890 – 1920
- Material
- wood, split willow shoots; plant, Devil’s Claw
- Dimensions
- 9.5 x 12.0 cm
- Description
- A coiled basket with flat base and straight, flaring sides, coils stitched with natural coloured split root ? with very dark brown design of same material. Design composed of three parallel lines running around the sides of the basket, along the top then slanting down, then along the bottom, then slanting up again, repeated around with the rectangular areas left between the path of the lines filled in as dark coloured parallelograms. The rim of the basket, the coil along the bottom, and one single coil in the base are dark. Design inside as well as outside, piece of knotted black thread through top coil on one side of basket, presumably for display at some time, very sturdy. Marks: round cardboard tag framed with metal attached with string to basket with string sealed to back of tag with black sealing wax with signet impression, tag handwritten in faded ink, "Fine Pima river ? Art 8913/50".
- Subject
- Indigenous, Pima
- households
- basketry
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0098
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Storage Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.19.0108
- Date
- 1890 – 1930
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0108
- Description
- A large shallow basket with flat bottom and sides flaring outward. Coiled construction with stitches of split root around each coil stitched into the top of the coil below. Natural coloured background with imbricated design of wide dark parallograms forming 'V's sitting on a single band of dark coi…
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- Title
- Storage Basket
- Date
- 1890 – 1930
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 9.8 x 34.2 cm
- Description
- A large shallow basket with flat bottom and sides flaring outward. Coiled construction with stitches of split root around each coil stitched into the top of the coil below. Natural coloured background with imbricated design of wide dark parallograms forming 'V's sitting on a single band of dark coil, and joined each to the other at the top with a dark bar with oblique lines running off topped by a small parallogram of golden brown with a single motif of golden brown between each. Sturdy but flexible, small string loop one side. Note: minor stitch breakage revealing coils beneath.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- households
- basketry
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0108
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- Date
- 1890 – 1939
- Material
- metal; paper
- Catalogue Number
- 104.45.1006
- Description
- A flat rectangular box with a label on top. The label features a woman in profile and “Puritan” in fancy lettering over the drawing of a pin. The label is also marked “Dressmakers’ Pins FINEST BRASS PINS MANUFACTURED BY THE AMERICAN PIN CO., WATERBUTY, CONN., U.S.A.” The box is filled with st…
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- Title
- Straight Pin
- Date
- 1890 – 1939
- Material
- metal; paper
- Description
- A flat rectangular box with a label on top. The label features a woman in profile and “Puritan” in fancy lettering over the drawing of a pin. The label is also marked “Dressmakers’ Pins FINEST BRASS PINS MANUFACTURED BY THE AMERICAN PIN CO., WATERBUTY, CONN., U.S.A.” The box is filled with straight pins.
- Subject
- households
- crafts
- needlework
- sewing
- Mary Schaffer
- Credit
- Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- 104.45.1006
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