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Date
1955 – 1965
Material
skin; hair; wood; feather
Catalogue Number
104.33.0023
Description
Hand drum with round hoop frame covered with hide and brown-grey fur around outside with six long striped features hanging from a buckskin thong spaced evenly around the circumference. Drum head is a circle of hide laced around its edges into the middle of the hoop and painted with a red and blue b…
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Title
Bear Drum
Date
1955 – 1965
Material
skin; hair; wood; feather
Description
Hand drum with round hoop frame covered with hide and brown-grey fur around outside with six long striped features hanging from a buckskin thong spaced evenly around the circumference. Drum head is a circle of hide laced around its edges into the middle of the hoop and painted with a red and blue band around the border with a pencil drawing of a bear's head at the centre. Handholds in the back formed of twisted hide in two loops attached to two strings of twisted hide stretched across the back, with an additional long strap of twisted hide for hanging.See narative.
Subject
Indigenous
ceremonial
dancing
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
104.33.0023
Images
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Date
1950 – 1979
Material
fibre; metal
Catalogue Number
103.07.0137 a-c
Description
A collection of three souvenir type square scarves. (a) white wool like rayon ? printed with a stylized map of Alberta and British Columbia with illustrations depicting all the resort areas of these provinces in their appropriate places on the map. Map surrounded with a heavy border of badly offse…
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Title
Kerchief
Date
1950 – 1979
Material
fibre; metal
Dimensions
68.0 x 66.0 cm
Description
A collection of three souvenir type square scarves. (a) white wool like rayon ? printed with a stylized map of Alberta and British Columbia with illustrations depicting all the resort areas of these provinces in their appropriate places on the map. Map surrounded with a heavy border of badly offset blue flowers, with an outer border at the edge of swimmers, skiers, golfer, etc. in front of a panorama of mountains. Short thread fringe on all four sides. (b) white silky rayon, clusters of brightly coloured international flags around each corner, with a light blue seal of the Soroptimist International Association at the centre, and a banner beneath, "1921 Jubilee 1971". White rolled hem outside narrow blue border line. Printed in one corner. (c) on the blue border, "Mildred Sprout". (c) green and brown rayon "Waltzing Matilda" words and tune printed on a white frame surrounding vignetted scenes taken from the song, all against a green yellow background of grass, trees and bushes. Light brown edge border 3 cm wide with rolled hem on all four sides. Near one corner is attached a small piece of brass coloured metal in the shape of a kangaroo inscribed "Francois".
Subject
households
souvenirs: CRW
Soroptimist
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.07.0137 a-c
Images
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This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.
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