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- Date
- 1910 – 1930
- Material
- wood; paper; metal; plastic; steel
- Catalogue Number
- 104.34.1001 a-d
- Description
- Martin steel string with case and strings; (a) guitar (96.5 x 34.5 x 10.5); fine hardwood construction, blond face,red/brown body and neck, ebony finger board and bridge base; "French" ivory rim, bridge, string pegs and tuning pegs; small "Mother of Pearl" diamond shaped position marks; silver-co…
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- Title
- Acoustic Guitar
- Date
- 1910 – 1930
- Material
- wood; paper; metal; plastic; steel
- Dimensions
- 34.5 x 86.5 cm
- Description
- Martin steel string with case and strings; (a) guitar (96.5 x 34.5 x 10.5); fine hardwood construction, blond face,red/brown body and neck, ebony finger board and bridge base; "French" ivory rim, bridge, string pegs and tuning pegs; small "Mother of Pearl" diamond shaped position marks; silver-coloured plates on side of head with engraving; burned stamp inside of body: "C F Martin & Co Nazarath, PA"; on neck block: "29990"; stamped on head: "Made in USA" plus same as inside body; (b) case: black pressed paper with purple velvet lining; metal fittings; enclosed box in neck area; (c) 3 "Black Diamond String" envelopes; with coiled strings; various used coiled strings (strings removed form guitar) (d) 13 pieces of various musical notations for chords and tunes.
- Subject
- households
- music
- Edmee Moore
- C.F. Martin
- Credit
- Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- 104.34.1001 a-d
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Animal Figurine
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact107.01.1019
- Date
- 1910 – 1945
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.1019
- Description
- Cast metal bison, grey-green colour.
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- Title
- Animal Figurine
- Date
- 1910 – 1945
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 3.5 x 9.5 cm
- Description
- Cast metal bison, grey-green colour.
- Credit
- Gift of Tony Green, Kingston, Lewes, U.K., 2002
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.1019
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Animal Figurine
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact107.01.0045
- Date
- 1910 – 1950
- Material
- mineral, onyx
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0045
- Description
- A simple turtle carved from white onyx which becomes darker behind a crack across the body at the tail. The shell texture has beeen incised on the back.
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- Title
- Animal Figurine
- Date
- 1910 – 1950
- Material
- mineral, onyx
- Dimensions
- 7.5 cm
- Description
- A simple turtle carved from white onyx which becomes darker behind a crack across the body at the tail. The shell texture has beeen incised on the back.
- Subject
- households
- collectables
- animals, turttle
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0045
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- Date
- 1910 – 1950
- Material
- wood; metal; plastic; feather; paint
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0003 a-z, aa
- Description
- A set of twenty-seven arrows: - Four handmade wooden arrows with three feathers at one notched end. The other end of each arrow is sharpened to a point. There are coloured bands painted under the feathers. - Ten very thin wooden arrows with pointed metal tips. The notched end of each arrow has s…
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- Title
- Arrow
- Date
- 1910 – 1950
- Material
- wood; metal; plastic; feather; paint
- Dimensions
- 72.0 (average) cm
- Description
- A set of twenty-seven arrows: - Four handmade wooden arrows with three feathers at one notched end. The other end of each arrow is sharpened to a point. There are coloured bands painted under the feathers. - Ten very thin wooden arrows with pointed metal tips. The notched end of each arrow has small feathers and painted coloured bands. Four of these arrows are marked “South Bend Quality Tackle Bait Co.”. Two of these arrows are marked “The Oreno Pat. Pending”.- Five wooden arrows with pointed metal tips. These arrows have red, yellow and white bands at the feathered end. One of these arrows has a pointed spike projecting from the tip. These arrows are marked “made in U.S.A. Rounsville-Pohm, Hazel Crest, Ill. 29”. - Two wooden arrows with pointed metal tips at one end, and plastic notches at the other. There are red, white, blue and yellow bands at the notched end of each arrow. - Two arrows with blue and white bands at the notched feathered end. These arrows have a darker harder wood piece, with a metal tip, scarfed to the other end.- One handmade arrow, in the manner of Indigenous arrows, that is painted blue at the notched end. The opposite end is sharpened to a point. - Three odd arrows: one arrow with a plastic tip and faded blue bands at the notched, feathered end; one arrow with a red and yellow band at the notched feathered end and metal tip; one arrow that was once painted completely red with plastic notch and metal tip (no feathers).
- Subject
- Indigenous
- hunting
- households
- sports, archery
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0003 a-z, aa
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- Date
- 1880 – 1910
- Material
- metal; shell
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0227
- Description
- A small awl with a round steel (?) spike tapering to a very sharp point which is slightly bent at the tip. The flattened white mother-of-pearl handle is slightly pointed at the end.
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- Title
- Awl
- Date
- 1880 – 1910
- Material
- metal; shell
- Dimensions
- 0.5 x 1.0 x 10.5 cm
- Description
- A small awl with a round steel (?) spike tapering to a very sharp point which is slightly bent at the tip. The flattened white mother-of-pearl handle is slightly pointed at the end.
- Subject
- households
- crafts
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0227
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- Date
- 1880 – 1950
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.21.1004
- Description
- Axe head marked “4” and “Gilpin.”
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- Title
- Axe
- Date
- 1880 – 1950
- Material
- metal
- Description
- Axe head marked “4” and “Gilpin.”
- Subject
- households
- Credit
- Gift of Unknown, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- 104.21.1004
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- Date
- 1910 – 1950
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0036
- Description
- A square, handwoven, white cotton bag with a short brown twisted cord handles through holes in the side near the top opening. A picture on the side of the bag is worked in cross stitch embroidery and is a wide border framing two peacocks and a tree in the centre.
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- Title
- Bag
- Date
- 1910 – 1950
- Material
- fibre
- Dimensions
- 20.0 x 19.0 cm
- Description
- A square, handwoven, white cotton bag with a short brown twisted cord handles through holes in the side near the top opening. A picture on the side of the bag is worked in cross stitch embroidery and is a wide border framing two peacocks and a tree in the centre.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- crafts
- needlework
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0036
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- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- hair, sheep; fibre, silk; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0047
- Description
- A flat, square, red wool drawstring bag with a pattern of large orange and white flowers outlined with black triangles embroidered all over. Each of the flowers has a piece of mirrored glass at the centre.
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- Title
- Bag
- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- hair, sheep; fibre, silk; glass
- Dimensions
- 20.5 x 22.0 cm
- Description
- A flat, square, red wool drawstring bag with a pattern of large orange and white flowers outlined with black triangles embroidered all over. Each of the flowers has a piece of mirrored glass at the centre.
- Subject
- households
- crafts
- needlework
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0047
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- Date
- 1914 – 1945
- Material
- fibre, cotton
- Catalogue Number
- 104.27.0002 a-c
- Description
- Three cotton bandages.a) A square bandage of unbleached cotton fabric stamped all over with black letters “O.B.S.T.”. One side of the bandage has a narrow strip of the same material joined with a flat-felled seam. The edges are unfinished (torn from a larger piece?). b) A torn square of unbleache…
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- Title
- Bandage
- Date
- 1914 – 1945
- Material
- fibre, cotton
- Dimensions
- 43.0 (a); 18.5 (b); 17.7 (c) x 50.0 (a); 18.5 (b); 17.7 (c) cm
- Description
- Three cotton bandages.a) A square bandage of unbleached cotton fabric stamped all over with black letters “O.B.S.T.”. One side of the bandage has a narrow strip of the same material joined with a flat-felled seam. The edges are unfinished (torn from a larger piece?). b) A torn square of unbleached cotton fabric with “C.R.W.” stencilled in two places on both sides. This bandage is wrapped around a wad of cotton batting and secured with two straight pins. c) A torn square of unbleached cotton fabric with “W Compress Gauze” written in black at the centre. This bandage is wrapped around a wad of cotton batting and a small piece of cotton gauze.
- Subject
- households
- health
- medicinal
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.27.0002 a-c
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- Date
- 1880 – 1900
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0376
- Description
- Small round twined basket with rounded base and high sides closing in slightly at the mouth, natural buff colour background with brown design and black accents, design repeated three times around sides is of four brown parallelograms stacked on one another in stairlike fashion moving up to the righ…
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- Title
- Basket
- Date
- 1880 – 1900
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 10.5 x 13.5 cm
- Description
- Small round twined basket with rounded base and high sides closing in slightly at the mouth, natural buff colour background with brown design and black accents, design repeated three times around sides is of four brown parallelograms stacked on one another in stairlike fashion moving up to the right, with serrated edges of black-tipped triangles along the sides and narrow black lines between each parallelogram. Between each steplike series on the buff background is an oblique double zig-zag line running from bottom to top of the basket. Lip is finished with three rows of twining of a lighter brown colour, pattern not visible on inside. Paper tag rimmed with metal is attached with cord and wax through lip of basket; no writing is visible.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- Indigenous
- basketry
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0376
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