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Commemorative Coin
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact105.02.0065
- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.0065
- Description
- A round brass coloured coin with the profile of man with long hair tied into club at neck (George Washington?) and marked “The Engineers Club of Philadelphia 1877” around the border in relief. The other side has a crossed olive branch and oak branch framing the edges with “The First American Engin…
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- Title
- Commemorative Coin
- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 0.3 x 3.5 x 3.5 cm
- Description
- A round brass coloured coin with the profile of man with long hair tied into club at neck (George Washington?) and marked “The Engineers Club of Philadelphia 1877” around the border in relief. The other side has a crossed olive branch and oak branch framing the edges with “The First American Engineer” at the bottom and “Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair” at the centre.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.0065
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Commemorative Coin
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact105.02.0071
- Date
- 1938 – 1938
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.0071
- Description
- A large copper-coloured cast metal coin with a seated, bare bosomed, robed woman holding a torch and book before a frieze of toiling male figures with “Servir” beneath. On the other side there is a cogged wheel with “Rotary International,” and a band around the outside with “Rotaria Tridistrital …
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- Title
- Commemorative Coin
- Date
- 1938 – 1938
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 0.2 x 4.1 x 4.1 cm
- Description
- A large copper-coloured cast metal coin with a seated, bare bosomed, robed woman holding a torch and book before a frieze of toiling male figures with “Servir” beneath. On the other side there is a cogged wheel with “Rotary International,” and a band around the outside with “Rotaria Tridistrital Marzo 1938 St. Go de Chile.”
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.0071
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Commemorative Pin
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact105.02.1137
- Date
- 1935
- Material
- metal; plastic
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.1137
- Description
- Small round pin with a straight pin back. The face of the pin is decorated with the layered profiles of King George V and Queen Mary surrounded by the provincial shields of Canada and a crown. The outer border of the pin has “25th ANNIVERSARY KING GEORGE V AND QUEEN MARY 1910 - 1935” in black on a…
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- Title
- Commemorative Pin
- Date
- 1935
- Material
- metal; plastic
- Description
- Small round pin with a straight pin back. The face of the pin is decorated with the layered profiles of King George V and Queen Mary surrounded by the provincial shields of Canada and a crown. The outer border of the pin has “25th ANNIVERSARY KING GEORGE V AND QUEEN MARY 1910 - 1935” in black on a white backgroundq
- Subject
- souvenirs
- King George V
- Queen Mary
- Credit
- Gift of Muriel E. Dayman, Calgary, 1992
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.1137
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Commemorative Pin
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact105.02.0070
- Date
- 1935 – 1935
- Material
- plastic; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.0070
- Description
- A round plastic pin with a metal back. The face of the pin has a red edge and a white band with “25th Anniversary King George V and Queen Mary 1910-1935.” A blue band inside contains the nine provincial coat-of-arms and surrounds a black and white profile image of Queen Mary beside King George V.
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- Title
- Commemorative Pin
- Date
- 1935 – 1935
- Material
- plastic; metal
- Dimensions
- 0.4 x 3.3 x 3.3 cm
- Description
- A round plastic pin with a metal back. The face of the pin has a red edge and a white band with “25th Anniversary King George V and Queen Mary 1910-1935.” A blue band inside contains the nine provincial coat-of-arms and surrounds a black and white profile image of Queen Mary beside King George V.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.0070
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- Date
- 1890 – 1920
- Material
- ceramic
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1055
- Description
- A white Spode art deco cup decorated with gold. The cup has a scene of the Brett Sanitarium Hotel and “SANITARIUM HOTEL, BANFF, ALTA.”
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- Title
- Cup
- Date
- 1890 – 1920
- Material
- ceramic
- Description
- A white Spode art deco cup decorated with gold. The cup has a scene of the Brett Sanitarium Hotel and “SANITARIUM HOTEL, BANFF, ALTA.”
- Subject
- households
- Dr. R.G. Brett
- hotels
- souvenirs
- Credit
- Gift of Wolfgang Blonowski, Banff, 1990
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1055
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- Date
- 1898 – 1904
- Material
- satin, cotton
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0146 a-i
- Description
- 9 cushion covers with Princeton motifs. a) A black satin cushion with a large gold embroidered “P” with a gold outlined tiger jumping through the opening of the “P”. A thick black and gold cord piping is on each side and tied at one corner.b) A black satin cushion cover with a large gold embroidere…
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- Title
- Cushion Cover
- Date
- 1898 – 1904
- Material
- satin, cotton
- Dimensions
- 14.0 x 44.0 x 46.0 cm
- Description
- 9 cushion covers with Princeton motifs. a) A black satin cushion with a large gold embroidered “P” with a gold outlined tiger jumping through the opening of the “P”. A thick black and gold cord piping is on each side and tied at one corner.b) A black satin cushion cover with a large gold embroidered 'P' with a grinning black panther jumping through the hole in the P. c) A black satin cushion cover with a gold embroidered 'P' on a stylized shield held by a gold outlined rampant tiger. There are black and gold tassels at each corner. d) A beige cotton cushion cover with an appliqued design of blue fleur-de-lis at the centre. A thick black and gold cord piping is sewn on each edge and is tied and tasseled at one corner.e) A beige cotton cushion cover with a waving black and gold pennant reading 'Princeton' with '1746' in black and gold beneath. The edges of the cushion have black braided cord piping. f) A beige cotton cushion cover with a centred, embroidered, black outline of the Princeton seal reading "Silligum Universitas Princetoniensis" and "Dei sub numine viget" with outlined fleur-de-lis motifs at each corner. A thick black cord piping is tied in bows at each corner.g) A length of thick black and gold twisted cotton cord piping, like the piping on the covers. h) A black satin cushion cover with the Princeton shield appliqued in gold and black satin at the centre with the numerals '1' '9' '0' '4' spaced in the four corners of the cover. One side of the cover opens. i) A black cotton cushion cover with a large '04' embroidered in gold centred on the front. Thick gold and black cord piping is sewn along each edge and knotted at each corner,
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- souvenirs
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0146 a-i
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- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- feather; glass; fibre; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 109.02.0001
- Description
- A dance bustle of golden eagle wing feathers placed in a circle around a beaded medallion. There are smaller downier feathers attached to the wing feather tips. Orange, red and green dots attached to each feather form concentric circles. The round central medallion has a white four petaled flowe…
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- Title
- Dance Bustle
- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- feather; glass; fibre; metal
- Dimensions
- 31.0 (depth) x 50.0 x 50.0 cm
- Description
- A dance bustle of golden eagle wing feathers placed in a circle around a beaded medallion. There are smaller downier feathers attached to the wing feather tips. Orange, red and green dots attached to each feather form concentric circles. The round central medallion has a white four petaled flower outlined in red on a dark background.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 109.02.0001
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Decorative Pin
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact103.01.0076
- Date
- 1915 – 1916
- Material
- fibre; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.01.0076
- Description
- Pin in the shape of a small yarn doll dressed in kilt and playing bagpipes. Wrapped and stitched yarn forms face, hands and legs, with pieces of red plaid ribbon forming the windbag of the bagpipe. Red wool jacket is stitched around edges with gold thread as decoration. Tall black hat and sporran …
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- Title
- Decorative Pin
- Date
- 1915 – 1916
- Material
- fibre; metal
- Dimensions
- 10.5 x 3.0 cm
- Description
- Pin in the shape of a small yarn doll dressed in kilt and playing bagpipes. Wrapped and stitched yarn forms face, hands and legs, with pieces of red plaid ribbon forming the windbag of the bagpipe. Red wool jacket is stitched around edges with gold thread as decoration. Tall black hat and sporran made from bits of white and black yarn; gold safety pin stitched to back acts as clasp for pin. Handwritten on label on side of box is illegible writing, deciphered as, “Bought Glacier/ 1916 Bagpiper”.
- Subject
- Whyte home
- playthings
- souvenirs
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.01.0076
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Decorative Plate
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.1022%20a%2cb
- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- ceramic
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.1022 a,b
- Description
- Circular plates with pictures, gold lipped. (a) Three Sisters on the base, roses pattern on lip, gold trim on outer rim. (b) Harmon picture of Bow Lake with tepee, floral pattern, gold on outer rim.
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- Title
- Decorative Plate
- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- ceramic
- Description
- Circular plates with pictures, gold lipped. (a) Three Sisters on the base, roses pattern on lip, gold trim on outer rim. (b) Harmon picture of Bow Lake with tepee, floral pattern, gold on outer rim.
- Subject
- households
- souvenirs
- Bow Lake
- Credit
- Purchased from Alan McClelland, Banff, 1985
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.1022 a,b
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- Date
- 1890 – 1920
- Material
- ceramic
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1136
- Description
- White oval dish with a band of sunflowers and waterlilies against a scalloped green background. In the centre of the decoration on one side there is an oval-shaped belt with "SANITARIUM HOTEL" on the belt and “BANFF” in the centre. The underside of the dish is marked with a crest and “PORCELAINE …
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- Title
- Dish
- Date
- 1890 – 1920
- Material
- ceramic
- Dimensions
- 2.4 x 14.2 x 20.4 cm
- Description
- White oval dish with a band of sunflowers and waterlilies against a scalloped green background. In the centre of the decoration on one side there is an oval-shaped belt with "SANITARIUM HOTEL" on the belt and “BANFF” in the centre. The underside of the dish is marked with a crest and “PORCELAINE OPAQUE TRADE MARK BRIDGWOOD & SON. ENGLAND SUPPLIED BY W.O. REID & CO. LONDON & WINNIPEG.”
- Credit
- Gift of Bertha Verkuil Davis, Calgary, 2003
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1136
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- Date
- 1930 – 1935
- Material
- paper; fibre, silk; hair
- Catalogue Number
- 108.05.0004 a,b
- Description
- Two dolls, one female and one male, with soft bodies and painted heads and hands. Both dolls are silk wearing tunics and pants with cloth slippers on feet. The female doll has real braided hair attached to the head, and the male wears a red skullcap which ties under the chin. The dolls are tied…
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- Title
- Doll
- Date
- 1930 – 1935
- Material
- paper; fibre, silk; hair
- Dimensions
- 18.5 x 4.0 x 7.0 cm
- Description
- Two dolls, one female and one male, with soft bodies and painted heads and hands. Both dolls are silk wearing tunics and pants with cloth slippers on feet. The female doll has real braided hair attached to the head, and the male wears a red skullcap which ties under the chin. The dolls are tied together at the neck with a ribbon.
- Subject
- households
- toys
- children
- souvenirs
- travel
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 108.05.0004 a,b
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- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- fibre, plant
- Catalogue Number
- 103.04.0007
- Description
- A closely woven straw hat in the shape of a truncated cone. The straw is dyed black in some places to form bands around the sides. Black dyed and natural coloured straw form concentric circles on top of the hat with a small circular opening in the centre.
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- Title
- Fez
- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- fibre, plant
- Dimensions
- 11.0 cm
- Description
- A closely woven straw hat in the shape of a truncated cone. The straw is dyed black in some places to form bands around the sides. Black dyed and natural coloured straw form concentric circles on top of the hat with a small circular opening in the centre.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.04.0007
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- Date
- 1930 – 1930
- Material
- fibre; hair, sheep
- Catalogue Number
- 103.04.0034
- Description
- A red wool fez with a black tassel. A woven wicker lining holds the hat’s shape. The inside is lined with pink fabric at the top and has a round green paper sticker with a picture of man wearing a fez and arabic writing. Written on the inside of the hat, on the sweatband, is “Peter Whyte, Port S…
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- Title
- Fez Cap
- Date
- 1930 – 1930
- Material
- fibre; hair, sheep
- Dimensions
- 15.0 cm
- Description
- A red wool fez with a black tassel. A woven wicker lining holds the hat’s shape. The inside is lined with pink fabric at the top and has a round green paper sticker with a picture of man wearing a fez and arabic writing. Written on the inside of the hat, on the sweatband, is “Peter Whyte, Port Said, Egypt”. Also on the sweatband “Felicitations” (?, in arabic writing?) and a stamp of a flying bird carrying a fez.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.04.0034
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- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0086
- Description
- A seated buddha with his feet in a lotus position at the centre of a lotus blossom. His right hand rests palm up in his lap and the left is raised in a blessing (or teaching position). The carved figurine is wood with simple features, large ears, and draped robes. The figurine is painted a saffro…
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- Title
- Figurine
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 12.7 x 6.0 x 7.0 cm
- Description
- A seated buddha with his feet in a lotus position at the centre of a lotus blossom. His right hand rests palm up in his lap and the left is raised in a blessing (or teaching position). The carved figurine is wood with simple features, large ears, and draped robes. The figurine is painted a saffron gold colour with red and black features and black hair with carved and red painted dot at front centre of hair. The figurine is loosely attached to a simply carved brown wood base of leaves curling downward with dowel through base of the buddha. There are Chinese letters on the base of the stand and “1.50” along with a paper sticker that reads “China:.
- Subject
- households
- souvenirs
- religious
- Buddah
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0086
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- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- wood; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.0013
- Description
- An elongated tall thin simple figure carved from a single piece of wood which is half light and half dark. The figure has one hand at the waist holding a wooden spear through a hole drilled in its fist. The other hand is clasped at the chest holding the broken remains of another spear. The figur…
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- Title
- Figurine
- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- wood; metal
- Dimensions
- 37.5 x 4.5; 4.6 (base) x 5.5; 4.6 (base) cm
- Description
- An elongated tall thin simple figure carved from a single piece of wood which is half light and half dark. The figure has one hand at the waist holding a wooden spear through a hole drilled in its fist. The other hand is clasped at the chest holding the broken remains of another spear. The figure is wearing a short skirt,a tall flat headdress with three incised vertical grid-like bands and has large pierced earlobes and very simply carved facial features. There is a tall wire silver coloured collar that is wrapped around the figurine’s long neck. The figure is standing on a low circular base made of a different type of wood.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- souvenirs
- crafts
- carving
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.0013
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- Date
- 1915 – 1935
- Material
- bone?; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.0015
- Description
- A relief carving on the surface of a hollow tube-shaped piece of bone(?). The carving is of a female figure with a large pierced fanned headdress and wings at her hips kneeling on the back of a large bird with sharp talons, beak, and large textured wings at either side. The carving is deeply inci…
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- Title
- Figurine
- Date
- 1915 – 1935
- Material
- bone?; wood
- Dimensions
- 20.7 x 4.0; 8.9 (base) x 4.5; 8.9 (base) cm
- Description
- A relief carving on the surface of a hollow tube-shaped piece of bone(?). The carving is of a female figure with a large pierced fanned headdress and wings at her hips kneeling on the back of a large bird with sharp talons, beak, and large textured wings at either side. The carving is deeply incised and pierced through to the hollow centre in places. The carving is attached to a stepped wooden base by fitting it over a shaped piece at the top and with one nail at the front and one nail at the back.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- souvenirs
- crafts
- carving
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.0015
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- Date
- 1914 – 1919
- Material
- metal; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 105.05.0001
- Description
- Military issue gun for shooting flares. The gun is a top break single action, with a short, wide brass barrel and breech, steel trigger, hammer, barrel release and joining screws, and a rounded wooden grip. There is a steel ring at the butt end of the grip. The flare gun is marked: inside action…
- Title
- Flare Gun
- Date
- 1914 – 1919
- Material
- metal; wood
- Dimensions
- 15.0 x 4.0 x 21.0 cm
- Description
- Military issue gun for shooting flares. The gun is a top break single action, with a short, wide brass barrel and breech, steel trigger, hammer, barrel release and joining screws, and a rounded wooden grip. There is a steel ring at the butt end of the grip. The flare gun is marked: inside action: “697”; inside action on underside of barrel: “39697”; left side of barrel: “ ‘16”; an arrow; two stamps with crowns and numbers; on frame underneath barrel on left side: “WEBLEY & SCOTT LTD LONDON & BIRMINGHAM”; an arrow; “‘16”; “III”; same stamps as above; on frame underneath barrel on right side: “W&S” beneath a stamped logo; serial number “39697.”
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 105.05.0001
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- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- skin, deer; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0009
- Description
- A deerskin fob in the shape of a chief's head with beadwork defining the profiled face and feather headdress. The fob has a small loop at the top. Beaded underneath the chief’s head is an inscription in Cree syllabics.
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- Title
- Fob
- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- skin, deer; fibre
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 15.5 cm
- Description
- A deerskin fob in the shape of a chief's head with beadwork defining the profiled face and feather headdress. The fob has a small loop at the top. Beaded underneath the chief’s head is an inscription in Cree syllabics.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0009
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- Date
- 1898 – 1902
- Material
- metal, gold; enamel
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.0028 a,b
- Description
- Two pins, each in the shape of a black and orange 'P'.
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- Title
- Fraternal Pin
- Date
- 1898 – 1902
- Material
- metal, gold; enamel
- Dimensions
- 1.5 x 1.7 cm
- Description
- Two pins, each in the shape of a black and orange 'P'.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.0028 a,b
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- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- skin; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.1051 a-d
- Description
- 2 pairs embroidered gauntlets with fringes a,b: (38.0 x 22.5) machine sewn construction, gauntlet lined with yellow cotton which also forms a 0.5 wide edging, on hand back embroidered pink and purple rose with green and yellow stem, on gauntlet embroidered 4-petal red and pink flower, green stems a…
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- Title
- Gauntlet Gloves
- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- skin; fibre
- Description
- 2 pairs embroidered gauntlets with fringes a,b: (38.0 x 22.5) machine sewn construction, gauntlet lined with yellow cotton which also forms a 0.5 wide edging, on hand back embroidered pink and purple rose with green and yellow stem, on gauntlet embroidered 4-petal red and pink flower, green stems and leaves, dark blue flower in one corner, dark red in other, fringes ca 9.5, c,d: (36.0 x 19.0) machine sewn, gauntlet lined with unbleached cotton, on hand back embroidered star, light and dark red, 4 smaller designs, 2 light and dark red, other yellow and green, gauntlets, 1 light and dark red flower, green and yellow leaves, grey and white stems, fringes both sides ca 7.5.
- Credit
- Gift of Robert Crosby, Banff, 1985
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.1051 a-d
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