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- Date
- 1982
- Material
- hair, sheep; fabric
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.1174
- Description
- A narrow wool belt from Nepal, woven in a split tapestry technique, in various colours; has an off-white cotton braided fringe (the warp) that is knotted on the ends.
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- Title
- Fibre Belt
- Date
- 1982
- Material
- hair, sheep; fabric
- Dimensions
- 3.5 x 126.0 cm
- Description
- A narrow wool belt from Nepal, woven in a split tapestry technique, in various colours; has an off-white cotton braided fringe (the warp) that is knotted on the ends.
- Subject
- crafts
- weaving
- households
- clothing
- Nepal
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.1174
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Gathering Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.02.0001
- Date
- 1890 – 1920
- Material
- grass
- Catalogue Number
- 104.02.0001
- Description
- A low, wide, open-mouthed coiled basket made of woven grass. The basket has an openwork scalloped border around the mouth.
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- Title
- Gathering Basket
- Date
- 1890 – 1920
- Material
- grass
- Dimensions
- 11.0 cm
- Description
- A low, wide, open-mouthed coiled basket made of woven grass. The basket has an openwork scalloped border around the mouth.
- Subject
- Indigenous, Salish
- crafts
- weaving
- basketry
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.02.0001
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Ice Breakup on the Atlantic
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactanm.08.042
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- weaving
- Catalogue Number
- AnM.08.042
- Description
- Undulating lines of teal blue, grey, and white woven together, with strands of turquoise to simulate the ice breakup in the ocean. No pattern was laid out to do this work.
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- Title
- Ice Breakup on the Atlantic
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- weaving
- Dimensions
- 35.2 x 31.7 cm
- Description
- Undulating lines of teal blue, grey, and white woven together, with strands of turquoise to simulate the ice breakup in the ocean. No pattern was laid out to do this work.
- Subject
- crafts
- weaving
- Mary G. Andrews
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- AnM.08.042
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Indian artists at work
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25548
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1977
- Author
- Steltzer, Ulli
- Publisher
- North Vancouver, B.C. : J.J. Douglas Ltd.
- Call Number
- 07.2 S3i
- Author
- Steltzer, Ulli
- Publisher
- North Vancouver, B.C. : J.J. Douglas Ltd.
- Published Date
- 1977
- Physical Description
- 163 pages
- Subjects
- Indigenous People
- Indigenous Artists
- Art
- Haida
- Kwagutl
- Cowichan
- Salish
- Okanagan
- Gitksan
- Carving
- Weaving
- Abstract
- The Indian cultures that once flourished in the Pacific Northwest left a magnificent legacy. Now, a distinguished photographer has sought out British Columbia's native artists in their own places, met them informally and recorded their rediscovery of the old skills. In over 200 perceptive photographs, Ulli Steltzer has captured ninety-three dedicated men and women as they carve silver, wood and argillite; prepare wood for weaving and knitting; dig roots and gather grasses for their baskets. There are glimpses of their studios, their homes, the countryside; and their words, to, are recorded. -- From back cover
- Contents
- Haida Carvers ; Haida Basket Weavers ; Kwagutl Carvers and Blanket Makers ; Weavers and Carvers of Vancouver Island's West Coast ; Cowichan Knitters and Salish Weavers ; Thompson, Mount Currie, and Coastal Basket Weavers ; Okanagan and Carrier Bead and Leather Workers, Carrier Birch Basket Makers ; Gitksan Carvers and Blanket Makers ; The Nass River, Stikine River, and Prince Rupert Carvers
- ISBN
- 0888941706
- Accession Number
- 2022.17
- Call Number
- 07.2 S3i
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Date
- 1978
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0135
- Description
- Mask like, flat face of woven fibre with cut out eyes and mouth. Appliqued, braided fibre binding edges and nose, trim decoration at top and bottom.
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- Title
- Mask
- Date
- 1978
- Material
- fibre
- Dimensions
- 41.5 x 19.0 cm
- Description
- Mask like, flat face of woven fibre with cut out eyes and mouth. Appliqued, braided fibre binding edges and nose, trim decoration at top and bottom.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0135
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- Date
- 1980
- Material
- metal; fibre; foam
- Catalogue Number
- 104.45.1039 a,b
- Description
- Two miniature gold-coloured four-poster metal beds covered with hand-woven cotton bedspreads both four-harness overshot:(a) The metal headboard measures 16.0cmx11.8cm wide and two posters on the foot measure 9.5 cmx11.8cm wide. The two metal slats on the frame have a mattress and a pillow (foam cov…
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- Title
- Miniature Bed
- Date
- 1980
- Material
- metal; fibre; foam
- Description
- Two miniature gold-coloured four-poster metal beds covered with hand-woven cotton bedspreads both four-harness overshot:(a) The metal headboard measures 16.0cmx11.8cm wide and two posters on the foot measure 9.5 cmx11.8cm wide. The two metal slats on the frame have a mattress and a pillow (foam covered with white cotton cloth) covered with a blue and white patterned “cat’s tracks and snail’s trails” cotton woven bedspread. On the frame rung next to the foot of the bed there is a gold paper sticker with black lettering that reads ”MADE IN TAIWAN”.(b) The metal headboard measures 10.5cmx9.5cm wide and footboard measures 9.0cmx9.5 cm wide. The two metal slats on the frame have a support (paper and foam covered with pink, white and green flowers and pink and white patterned cotton cloth) and then two pieces of uncovered yellow foam on top of that; one for the mattress and a smaller one for the pillow. The cotton bedspread is woven in a brown and white pattern of wigrose design.
- Subject
- households
- crafts
- spinning
- weaving
- Mary Andrews
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- 104.45.1039 a,b
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Miniature Spinning Wheel
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.45.1038%20a-c
- Date
- 1980
- Material
- wood; sheep, hair; fabric; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.45.1038 a-c
- Description
- Three miniature wood spinning wheels:(a) a light brown varnished spinning wheel (24.5cmx10.0 wide) sitting on top of a round piece of wood with three splayed legs. There is a piece of string, simulating the driver band, around the fly wheel looping to the flyer whorl and a ball of spun linen with p…
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- Title
- Miniature Spinning Wheel
- Date
- 1980
- Material
- wood; sheep, hair; fabric; metal
- Description
- Three miniature wood spinning wheels:(a) a light brown varnished spinning wheel (24.5cmx10.0 wide) sitting on top of a round piece of wood with three splayed legs. There is a piece of string, simulating the driver band, around the fly wheel looping to the flyer whorl and a ball of spun linen with part of it wrapped around the distaff. Printed on the bottom of the round piece of wood “MADE IN GERMANY (EAST)”(b) a delicate light brown varnished spinning wheel (15.0cmx15.5 wide) with all parts of a larger spinning wheel. There is a piece of string, simulating the driver band, around the fly wheel looping to the flyer whorl; to the left of the flyer whorl is the U-shaped flyer (the flyer is rotated by the drive band which as a result puts the twist in the fibre) and behind this the spindle. The spinning wheel sits on top of three splayed legs and there is a piece of wood across and diagonally for the treadle (the pedal that operates the wheel using your feet). Printed on the bottom “FAIT A LA MAIN PAR HENRI LEGAULT”(c) A sturdy dark brown stained upright spinning wheel (30.0cmx10.5 wide) sitting on top of a round piece of wood with three splayed legs; the treadle is connected by thin piece of metal that is attached to the footman, in turn attached to the handle and metal bar that goes through the centre of the wheel. There is a piece of red string, simulating the driver band, around the fly wheel, which is directly above, looping to the flyer whorl and some unspun linen wrapped around the distaff.
- Subject
- households
- crafts
- spinning
- weaving
- Mary Andrews
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- 104.45.1038 a-c
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- Date
- 1880 – 1966
- Material
- wood; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.45.1002
- Description
- A handcarved wooden weaving shuttle. The shuttle is roughly rectangular with one pointed end and two points at the opposite end. The centre of the shuttle is cut out and has a pointed wooden bar in the middle supported by a nail.
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- Title
- Shuttle
- Date
- 1880 – 1966
- Material
- wood; metal
- Description
- A handcarved wooden weaving shuttle. The shuttle is roughly rectangular with one pointed end and two points at the opposite end. The centre of the shuttle is cut out and has a pointed wooden bar in the middle supported by a nail.
- Subject
- households
- crafts
- weaving
- woodworking
- Credit
- Gift of Forrest (Pat) Oliver Brewster, Banff, 1966
- Catalogue Number
- 104.45.1002
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Table, Hand Woven Runner
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.1081
- Date
- 1985
- Material
- wool
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.1081
- Description
- A mainly blue (background) wool table runner with the cotton warp creating the extended fringes on the ends. The other colours used to make the designs are gold, grey, and white. The runner is from Sweden and the technique is overshot threading.
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- Title
- Table, Hand Woven Runner
- Date
- 1985
- Material
- wool
- Dimensions
- 39.0 x 104.0 cm
- Description
- A mainly blue (background) wool table runner with the cotton warp creating the extended fringes on the ends. The other colours used to make the designs are gold, grey, and white. The runner is from Sweden and the technique is overshot threading.
- Subject
- crafts
- weaving
- households
- Sweden
- Mary Andrews
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.1081
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- Date
- 1977
- Material
- wood; metal; fibre; paper; plastic
- Catalogue Number
- 104.45.1041 a-c
- Description
- A table loom, shuttle, and weaving (belt) that is set up on the loom:(a) A four-harness wood table loom handmade by Harold Mortimer, strung, with shuttle and cotton thread attached which you move through the warp as the weft. There is a pencilled circle (radius 2.0cm, 3.60cm from each end and 0.50c…
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- Title
- Table Loom
- Date
- 1977
- Material
- wood; metal; fibre; paper; plastic
- Dimensions
- 33.0 x 16.5 x 61.0 cm
- Description
- A table loom, shuttle, and weaving (belt) that is set up on the loom:(a) A four-harness wood table loom handmade by Harold Mortimer, strung, with shuttle and cotton thread attached which you move through the warp as the weft. There is a pencilled circle (radius 2.0cm, 3.60cm from each end and 0.50cm from the bottom with the number) the number “3” and “HM” , Harold Mortimer’s monogram, pencilled in the centre. It has four wooden knobs on top of the upright posts that have the string harnesses attached. Underneath the top of the upright post there is a white address label (4.60x1.5cm wide) with red on the top and bottom. On it is printed “HAROLD MORTIMER 341 BIG HORN ST BOX 77 BANFF ALBERTA T0L 0C0 and to the right of that, written in pen “DEC 1977”It has metal reeds which the fibre goes through. The completed part of the belt is wound around the roller (covered in cardboard) so the fibre not damaged. There is a slender round piece of wood (pencil) for tautness. There is also a roller (warp beam) on the back where the threads (warp) are attached.(b) the wooden shuttle, 17.5x2.5cm wide, with a groove at each end creating a space for the fibre to be wound around horizontally.(c) the partially woven, blue, yellow, and brown strip of woven cloth that is set up on the loom.
- Subject
- crafts
- woodwork
- weaving
- Harold Mortimer
- Mary Andrews
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- 104.45.1041 a-c
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