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- Date
- 1940 – 1950
- Material
- hair, sheep
- Catalogue Number
- 102.02.0033
- Description
- Hooked throw rug with sailboat scene, a black (9 cm. wide) and burgundy (1.5 cm. wide) border frames picture, scene depicts one large, three masted sailboat in center with a black steamboat to the left and a small single masted sailboat to the right, sailboats are black with orange masts, the whit…
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- Title
- Throw Rug
- Date
- 1940 – 1950
- Material
- hair, sheep
- Dimensions
- 92.0 x 109.0 cm
- Description
- Hooked throw rug with sailboat scene, a black (9 cm. wide) and burgundy (1.5 cm. wide) border frames picture, scene depicts one large, three masted sailboat in center with a black steamboat to the left and a small single masted sailboat to the right, sailboats are black with orange masts, the white sails are outlined in beige, water is represented in various shades of green, the sky in various shades of grey.
- Subject
- households
- furnishings
- crafts
- rug hooking
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.02.0033
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- Date
- 1940 – 1975
- Material
- hair, sheep; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 102.02.0037
- Description
- A coarsely hooked rectangular rug with large figure of a thunderbird standing on Haida dragon figure, with light green background. Thunderbird, with face in profile, outspread wings reaching to each of top corners, and stylized face forming body, is worked with traditional ovoid shaped feathers of …
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- Title
- Throw Rug
- Date
- 1940 – 1975
- Material
- hair, sheep; fibre
- Dimensions
- 90.0 x 117.5 cm
- Description
- A coarsely hooked rectangular rug with large figure of a thunderbird standing on Haida dragon figure, with light green background. Thunderbird, with face in profile, outspread wings reaching to each of top corners, and stylized face forming body, is worked with traditional ovoid shaped feathers of black, dark red, dark green, and yellow on white body. Beneath bird is long, slightly curved, two-headed dragon (head at each end in profile) with animal face at middle. Rug is hooked with wide (1.5 cm) strips of woolen fabric on burlap backing, and finished with edges wrapped with strips of same woolen fabric.
- Subject
- households
- furnishings
- crafts
- rug hooking
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.02.0037
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Trinket Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.0172
- Date
- 1940 – 1945
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0172
- Description
- Basket with lid, decorated with motif of people in canoe spearing killer whale, multi-coloured horizontal bands enclosing motif, concentric colour bands on lid.
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- Title
- Trinket Basket
- Date
- 1940 – 1945
- Material
- fibre
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 7.2 cm
- Description
- Basket with lid, decorated with motif of people in canoe spearing killer whale, multi-coloured horizontal bands enclosing motif, concentric colour bands on lid.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0172
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- Date
- 1945 – 1945
- Material
- stone
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0201
- Description
- A hand-carved, well-made, lidded box carved from soft Rocky Mountain marble. The box has a front and a back. The front has bevelled corners, whereas the back has square corners. The box interior has rounded corners and the lid fits smoothly and flushly into the cutout. Base is felted with green fel…
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- Title
- Trinket Box
- Date
- 1945 – 1945
- Material
- stone
- Dimensions
- 4.3 x 5.7 x 9.2 cm
- Description
- A hand-carved, well-made, lidded box carved from soft Rocky Mountain marble. The box has a front and a back. The front has bevelled corners, whereas the back has square corners. The box interior has rounded corners and the lid fits smoothly and flushly into the cutout. Base is felted with green felt. The marble is black, streaked with white.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0201
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Beaded Pendant
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact103.01.0343
- Date
- 1940 – 1960
- Material
- glass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.01.0343
- Description
- A long rectangular pendant, beaded on a loom, of transparent glass beads with black eagle and red, white and blue shield below. The pendant comes to point at the top and hangs from a tied loop of cord twisted from the warp ends of the supporting strings. The eagle has "US" beaded on its body with…
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- Title
- Beaded Pendant
- Date
- 1940 – 1960
- Material
- glass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 4.7 x 21.5 cm
- Description
- A long rectangular pendant, beaded on a loom, of transparent glass beads with black eagle and red, white and blue shield below. The pendant comes to point at the top and hangs from a tied loop of cord twisted from the warp ends of the supporting strings. The eagle has "US" beaded on its body with transparent beads, and the shield contains alternating red and white vertical stripes with a blue field across the top containing five cross-shaped stars. A 4.5 cm fringe at bottom is formed of strands beaded with transparent beads. The pendant is buckled in area above the eagle's head.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.01.0343
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- Date
- 1940
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.04.1025
- Description
- White felt hat with many names embroidered in red. Names include: G. Brewster, J. McFadden, R. S. Cushing, etc. Inside “R.E. Brett.”
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- Title
- Hat
- Date
- 1940
- Material
- fibre
- Description
- White felt hat with many names embroidered in red. Names include: G. Brewster, J. McFadden, R. S. Cushing, etc. Inside “R.E. Brett.”
- Subject
- R.E. Brett
- G. Brewster
- crafts
- needlework
- Credit
- Gift of Dick Keller, Banff, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- 103.04.1025
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- Date
- 1945 – 1955
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.1165
- Description
- Grey handmade ski pants with metal zippers in the pockets and fly, and black elastic stirrups at the ankles. The waistband has belt loops. A piece of paper is pinned to the waistband with BARBARA KAPTEYN SKI PANTS - LATE ‘40’S EARLY ‘50’S” written in blue ink.
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- Title
- Ski Pants
- Date
- 1945 – 1955
- Material
- fibre
- Dimensions
- 50.5 x 111.2 cm
- Description
- Grey handmade ski pants with metal zippers in the pockets and fly, and black elastic stirrups at the ankles. The waistband has belt loops. A piece of paper is pinned to the waistband with BARBARA KAPTEYN SKI PANTS - LATE ‘40’S EARLY ‘50’S” written in blue ink.
- Credit
- Gift of Barbara Whyte Kapteyn, Calgary, 2002
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.1165
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- Date
- 1940 – 1955
- Material
- skin, cow
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0001
- Description
- A tooled leather belt of brown cowhide with a leather covered buckle. The belt is stamped “28 Saddle Craft by Textan Full Grain Cowhide 425 IK”.
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- Title
- Belt
- Date
- 1940 – 1955
- Material
- skin, cow
- Dimensions
- 2.5 x 82.0 cm
- Description
- A tooled leather belt of brown cowhide with a leather covered buckle. The belt is stamped “28 Saddle Craft by Textan Full Grain Cowhide 425 IK”.
- Subject
- households
- clothing
- decorative
- crafts
- tooling
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0001
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- Date
- 1945 – 1960
- Material
- hair, sheep
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0021
- Description
- A handwoven red wool sash with vertical stripes of green, blue, black and yellow. Each end on the sash has very long fringe. The label reads “Handwoven by MacKay Homecraft Studio Inc. Montreal, Canada”.
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- Title
- Sash
- Date
- 1945 – 1960
- Material
- hair, sheep
- Dimensions
- 13.5 x 264.0 cm
- Description
- A handwoven red wool sash with vertical stripes of green, blue, black and yellow. Each end on the sash has very long fringe. The label reads “Handwoven by MacKay Homecraft Studio Inc. Montreal, Canada”.
- Subject
- decorative
- crafts
- weaving
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0021
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- Date
- 1945 – 1950
- Material
- hair, sheep
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0033
- Description
- A very thin long sash, woven on a belt loom, with a pattern of faded red and white checks. Both ends of the sash have dense red and white fringe.
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- Title
- Sash
- Date
- 1945 – 1950
- Material
- hair, sheep
- Dimensions
- 6.5 x 222.0 cm
- Description
- A very thin long sash, woven on a belt loom, with a pattern of faded red and white checks. Both ends of the sash have dense red and white fringe.
- Subject
- clothing
- decorative
- crafts
- weaving
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0033
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