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- Date
- 1970 – 1970
- Material
- plaster; skin; metal; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.0006
- Description
- A smoothly carved plaster bird (partridge or grouse) with a small leather crest on top of its head and metal legs. The bird has a red head with a white stripe around each eye that extends to encircle the head and neck, dark grey body, white belly and a red stripe under each wing. The bird stands …
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- Title
- Bird Figurine
- Date
- 1970 – 1970
- Material
- plaster; skin; metal; wood
- Dimensions
- 8.2; 3.3 (base) x 4.5; 6.5 (base) x 10.8; 6.5 (base) cm
- Description
- A smoothly carved plaster bird (partridge or grouse) with a small leather crest on top of its head and metal legs. The bird has a red head with a white stripe around each eye that extends to encircle the head and neck, dark grey body, white belly and a red stripe under each wing. The bird stands on a round slice of tree branch or trunk. The bottom marked with a maker’s mark “HAL” joined together and “70.”
- Subject
- households
- animals, birds
- crafts
- carving
- Hal Bieler
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.0006
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- Date
- 1970 – 1973
- Material
- paper
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0077
- Description
- Cardboard box constructed to appear as a Haida bent-box. Large lid has mitred corner. Design around bottom of box in red and black, Haida-like motif of stylized animal. Inside is a piece of paper guaranteeing that the “Sterling silver brooch, Killerwhale design by Walter Harris” was made by a Canad…
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- Title
- Jewel Box
- Date
- 1970 – 1973
- Material
- paper
- Dimensions
- 9.4 x 6.6 cm
- Description
- Cardboard box constructed to appear as a Haida bent-box. Large lid has mitred corner. Design around bottom of box in red and black, Haida-like motif of stylized animal. Inside is a piece of paper guaranteeing that the “Sterling silver brooch, Killerwhale design by Walter Harris” was made by a Canadian Indian, and identifying the product as having come from “Ksan Indian Craft Village in Hazelton, B.C.”
- Subject
- Indigenous
- crafts
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0077
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