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Untitled

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Artist: Unknown

Date: c. 1945

Medium: oil on canvas paper

Catalogue Number: UnK.02.15

Artist: Unknown

Title: Untitled

Date: c. 1945

Medium: oil on canvas paper

Dimensions: 40.0 x 30.0 cm

Subject: Landscape; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Unknown, 1999

Catalogue Number: UnK.02.15

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Untitled [Owl]

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Artist: Unknown

Date: prior to 1962

Catalogue Number: UnK.06.78

Description: Very tiny standing owl; carved owl, natural features of the bone emphasizes white front and back, and grey sides, head and feet; drilled round eyes, shaped beak; round hole drilled into bottom of right foot

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Untitled [Owl]

Date: prior to 1962

Dimensions: 3.0 x 1.4 cm

Description: Very tiny standing owl; carved owl, natural features of the bone emphasizes white front and back, and grey sides, head and feet; drilled round eyes, shaped beak; round hole drilled into bottom of right foot

Subject: Animal; Owl; Inuit

Credit: Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988

Catalogue Number: UnK.06.78

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Untitled [Seated Japanese man]

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Artist: Unknown

Date: n.d.

Medium: sculpture

Catalogue Number: UnK.06.11

Description: Hotei (one of seven gods of Bliss) sits on the ground holding a basket with a smile on his roly poly face. Both hands are holding onto the basket and consequently folded across his chest. The colour of the figure is a very dark colour with hints of red-brown where the light hits it.

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Untitled [Seated Japanese man]

Date: n.d.

Medium: sculpture

Dimensions: 8.5 x 10.7 cm

Description: Hotei (one of seven gods of Bliss) sits on the ground holding a basket with a smile on his roly poly face. Both hands are holding onto the basket and consequently folded across his chest. The colour of the figure is a very dark colour with hints of red-brown where the light hits it.

Subject: figure; male; Hotei

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: UnK.06.11

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Untitled [German Shepherd Dog]

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Artist: Unknown

Date: n.d.

Medium: copper

Catalogue Number: UnK.17.01

Artist: Unknown

Title: Untitled [German Shepherd Dog]

Date: n.d.

Medium: copper

Dimensions: 29.0 x 22.0 cm

Subject: portrait; dog

Credit: Gift of Peter Whyte, 1966

Catalogue Number: UnK.17.01

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Untitled [Poster of Geisha]

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Artist: Unknown

Date: 1878 – 1878

Medium: print on paper

Catalogue Number: UnK.04.07 a-c

Description: This triptych features 7 women in a room with a brightly coloured floral rug (red,white and green) a large window spreads through all three panels, through which can be seen land with buildings and water. It is snowing out side. Most of the women have musical instruments. Next to each woman is a…

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Untitled [Poster of Geisha]

Date: 1878 – 1878

Medium: print on paper

Description: This triptych features 7 women in a room with a brightly coloured floral rug (red,white and green) a large window spreads through all three panels, through which can be seen land with buildings and water. It is snowing out side. Most of the women have musical instruments. Next to each woman is a descriptor of their role in Japanese. In the first panel are two women standing facing to their own right. The centre panel features three women sitting; two facing left, one right. 2 of these women have musical instruments. The third panel features two women sitting facing left. A green panel is behind them with a scroll on the far wall.

Subject: gathering; figures; women;Geisha

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: UnK.04.07 a-c

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Untitled [Fisherman Boating]

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Artist: Unknown

Date: n.d.

Medium: drawing on paper

Catalogue Number: UnK.03.14

Description: A canoe type boat sits just right of center with a man standing in it. This man is wearing a straw raincoat and a hat. He is facing to the left, with his back to the viewer. He holds one arm out that is pointing to the tlc. There is no background or foreground.

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Untitled [Fisherman Boating]

Date: n.d.

Medium: drawing on paper

Dimensions: 32.0 x 35.0 cm

Description: A canoe type boat sits just right of center with a man standing in it. This man is wearing a straw raincoat and a hat. He is facing to the left, with his back to the viewer. He holds one arm out that is pointing to the tlc. There is no background or foreground.

Subject: Activity; Fishing; Figure; Male

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: UnK.03.14

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Kabuki Theatre Poster

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Artist: Unknown

Date: n.d.

Medium: woodblock on paper

Catalogue Number: UnK.04.08

Description: Small Kabuki Theatre Poster. A Man stands with legs far apart leaning back far to the right with his body and face facing left. He holds an umbrella that is cropped off by the edge of the print. He stands on a green ground. The backgroung is dark and features an almost black sky, a darkbrown hi…

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Kabuki Theatre Poster

Date: n.d.

Medium: woodblock on paper

Dimensions: 24.5 x 18.5 cm

Description: Small Kabuki Theatre Poster. A Man stands with legs far apart leaning back far to the right with his body and face facing left. He holds an umbrella that is cropped off by the edge of the print. He stands on a green ground. The backgroung is dark and features an almost black sky, a darkbrown hill, a small blue mountain, and a river. There are 2 text panels down the left side. Translator of print commented : Drawn by: Ichi bai tei(?), sai(?) ho. In images of the floating world Ichibaishi is also known as Yoshimine.

Subject: figure; Japanese; Kabuki; landscape; Japan

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: UnK.04.08

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Untitled

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Artist: Unknown

Date: c. 1880

Medium: drawing on paper

Catalogue Number: UnK.03.15

Description: on a rather square piece of thin rice paper is a small shape approx. 5cm x 5cm. It sits to the centre right of the page and centre bottom. The shape in unidentifiable, and is made of of 2 types of brush strokes. The ‘body’ of the shape has thick brush strokes that move inward. the top of the sh…

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Untitled

Date: c. 1880

Medium: drawing on paper

Dimensions: 32.0 x 35.0 cm

Description: on a rather square piece of thin rice paper is a small shape approx. 5cm x 5cm. It sits to the centre right of the page and centre bottom. The shape in unidentifiable, and is made of of 2 types of brush strokes. The ‘body’ of the shape has thick brush strokes that move inward. the top of the shape is a thin solid line that sits on top of the shape. On top of this line is a small triangle. On the bottom left of the shape a small strait line juts out, and curves a little at the bottom

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: UnK.03.15

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Untitled

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Artist: Unknown

Date: n.d.

Catalogue Number: UnK.06.89

Description: A whimsical compass from an Exceptional Pass exhibition. At one end is a compass. At the other is a series of tiny gears. These are attached to a cylindrical, white ceramic piece that is narrower in the middle. Strings of beads with bells at the ends of them encircle this narrower area. Blue a…

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Untitled

Date: n.d.

Dimensions: 6.5 x 5.8 x 5.8 cm

Description: A whimsical compass from an Exceptional Pass exhibition. At one end is a compass. At the other is a series of tiny gears. These are attached to a cylindrical, white ceramic piece that is narrower in the middle. Strings of beads with bells at the ends of them encircle this narrower area. Blue and yellow plastic jewels decorate the wider part.

Subject: whimsy; compass

Credit: Gift of Harold C. Whyte, Penticton, 2002

Catalogue Number: UnK.06.89

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Untitled [Ceramic Horse-type Figure]

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Artist: Unknown

Date: n.d.

Medium: ceramic; glaze

Catalogue Number: UnK.06.88

Description: A brown, two-headed horse-like figurine with a small figure in a saddle on the horse’s back. Lighter areas are visible where glaze was not applied. The head of the figure in the saddle appears to be chipped or broken. Blue patches of glaze can be seen all over. Symbols appear to have been marke…

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Untitled [Ceramic Horse-type Figure]

Date: n.d.

Medium: ceramic; glaze

Dimensions: 11.0 x 9.5 x 4.0 cm

Description: A brown, two-headed horse-like figurine with a small figure in a saddle on the horse’s back. Lighter areas are visible where glaze was not applied. The head of the figure in the saddle appears to be chipped or broken. Blue patches of glaze can be seen all over. Symbols appear to have been marked on the horse prior to firing.