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- Date
- 1880 – 1930
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.01.0104
- Description
- Plain, narrow, gold band, woman's small size.
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- Title
- Wedding Ring
- Date
- 1880 – 1930
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 1.3 x 0.3 cm
- Description
- Plain, narrow, gold band, woman's small size.
- Subject
- Whyte home
- households
- adornment
- wedding
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.01.0104
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- Date
- 1885 – 1925
- Material
- horn
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0237
- Description
- Irregular shaped bowl made by boiling and scraping the horn of a bighorn sheep. Flattened at bottom to form steady base. Translucent natural colour with lines of dark brown showing in patches along grain.
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- Title
- Bowl
- Date
- 1885 – 1925
- Material
- horn
- Dimensions
- 6.2 x 16.1 x 19.0 cm
- Description
- Irregular shaped bowl made by boiling and scraping the horn of a bighorn sheep. Flattened at bottom to form steady base. Translucent natural colour with lines of dark brown showing in patches along grain.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- households
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0237
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- Date
- 1880 – 1920
- Material
- bone
- Catalogue Number
- 104.24.0003
- Description
- An awl made by cutting the leg bone of an animal in half and carving the bone to a point at one end, leaving the joint end intact. The awl is hollow where the marrow was.
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- Title
- Leather Awl
- Date
- 1880 – 1920
- Material
- bone
- Dimensions
- 1.5 x 2.5 x 21.0 cm
- Description
- An awl made by cutting the leg bone of an animal in half and carving the bone to a point at one end, leaving the joint end intact. The awl is hollow where the marrow was.
- Subject
- households
- crafts
- carving
- animals
- Indigenous
- Plains
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.24.0003
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- Date
- prior to 1900
- Material
- mineral
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.1021 a,b
- Description
- Heavy oval shaped rock, 26.0x20.0x11.0 cm. with a round hole carved into centre, ca. 10.0 dia. at top. Nicely smoothed cavity. One quadrant has been broken off. Pestle is oblong 20.0 long and ca. 9.0 dia. at bottom. Shaped with rim above hand hold.
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- Title
- Mortar; Pestle
- Date
- prior to 1900
- Material
- mineral
- Description
- Heavy oval shaped rock, 26.0x20.0x11.0 cm. with a round hole carved into centre, ca. 10.0 dia. at top. Nicely smoothed cavity. One quadrant has been broken off. Pestle is oblong 20.0 long and ca. 9.0 dia. at bottom. Shaped with rim above hand hold.
- Subject
- households
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Joe A. Brewster, Banff, 1980
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.1021 a,b
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- Date
- 1880 – 1900
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0353
- Description
- Rectangular ivory coloured cloth with eyelet and fringed edge on all four sides. Festooned garlands of multi-coloured flowers continue around border of cloth. Inside festoons is pale gold laurel leaf embroidery motif.
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- Title
- Table Cover
- Date
- 1880 – 1900
- Material
- fibre
- Dimensions
- 48.5 x 71.0 cm
- Description
- Rectangular ivory coloured cloth with eyelet and fringed edge on all four sides. Festooned garlands of multi-coloured flowers continue around border of cloth. Inside festoons is pale gold laurel leaf embroidery motif.
- Subject
- Whyte home
- households
- decorative
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0353
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Strike-A-Light
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.07.3001
- Date
- prior to 1900
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 102.07.3001
- Description
- A flat piece of steel 1.0 x 0.4 cm is bent into an oval shape with the points welded together and coming to a sharp point 0.8 cm wide. A chain 31.0 long is attached to loop as a wrist strap. Stamped on one side is the outline of a tiger and below that stamped "Tiger" and two other illegible word…
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- Title
- Strike-A-Light
- Date
- prior to 1900
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 4.0 x 9.0 cm
- Description
- A flat piece of steel 1.0 x 0.4 cm is bent into an oval shape with the points welded together and coming to a sharp point 0.8 cm wide. A chain 31.0 long is attached to loop as a wrist strap. Stamped on one side is the outline of a tiger and below that stamped "Tiger" and two other illegible words. Tag in CRW's writing: "Helen Scalplock Oct 24 1971."
- Subject
- households
- Indigenous
- Stoney
- Helen Scalplock
- tools
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.07.3001
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Strike-A-Light
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.07.3002
- Date
- prior to 1900
- Material
- metal; skin
- Catalogue Number
- 102.07.3002
- Description
- A flat piece of steel 1.0x.4 cm is bent into an oval shape with the points welded together and coming to a sharp point .8 cm wide. A leather strap is looped and buckles on to striker as a wrist strap . Stamped on one side is the outline of a tiger and below that stamped "Tiger" and two other ill…
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- Title
- Strike-A-Light
- Date
- prior to 1900
- Material
- metal; skin
- Dimensions
- 4,2 x 10.0 cm
- Description
- A flat piece of steel 1.0x.4 cm is bent into an oval shape with the points welded together and coming to a sharp point .8 cm wide. A leather strap is looped and buckles on to striker as a wrist strap . Stamped on one side is the outline of a tiger and below that stamped "Tiger" and two other illegible words. Tag in CRW's writing: "Mrs. John Hunter?"
- Subject
- households
- Indigenous
- Stoney
- Mrs. John Hunter
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.07.3002
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- Date
- 1888 – 1938
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.01.0146
- Description
- A pin made from a brass ? 10 pfennig German coin. Front of pin is face with the imperial German eagle, head in profile, with outspread wing feathers around shield covering body, feet below, and crown above and "J" twice at bottom. Obverse, large "10" at centre with "Deutches Reich 8/ pfennig". A …
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- Title
- Scatter Pin
- Date
- 1888 – 1938
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 2.1 x 0.6 cm
- Description
- A pin made from a brass ? 10 pfennig German coin. Front of pin is face with the imperial German eagle, head in profile, with outspread wing feathers around shield covering body, feet below, and crown above and "J" twice at bottom. Obverse, large "10" at centre with "Deutches Reich 8/ pfennig". A hinged pin spike which fastens under a hook clasp, has been soldered horizontally across back.
- Subject
- Whyte home
- households
- adornment
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.01.0146
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Storage Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.19.0092
- Date
- 1880 – 1900
- Material
- grass; hair; skin
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0092
- Description
- A flat long rectangular bag woven with twisted corn husks twined over a hemp warp with coarser, linen? twined area, 3 cm, at bottom and in band at top alternating with lines of corn husk pattern. Overlaid design of red, pink and white wool triangles outlined in green and yellow on one side, and li…
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- Title
- Storage Basket
- Date
- 1880 – 1900
- Material
- grass; hair; skin
- Dimensions
- 30.0 x 44.0 cm
- Description
- A flat long rectangular bag woven with twisted corn husks twined over a hemp warp with coarser, linen? twined area, 3 cm, at bottom and in band at top alternating with lines of corn husk pattern. Overlaid design of red, pink and white wool triangles outlined in green and yellow on one side, and light coloured pinch waisted shapes outlined in red and pink on other side, a buckskin thong is attached along opening at top in a series of small loops knotted though the weaving.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0092
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Storage Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.19.0101
- Date
- 1880 – 1920
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0101
- Description
- Conical shaped basket with flat base, coil constructed from plant fibre bundles and is exposed in several places on rim where stitching has deteriorated. Stitching is plant fibre material in three natural colours, most of the basket is beige, two rows of reddish wood coloured diamonds, each approx.…
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- Title
- Storage Basket
- Date
- 1880 – 1920
- Material
- fibre
- Dimensions
- 23.5 x 41.0 cm
- Description
- Conical shaped basket with flat base, coil constructed from plant fibre bundles and is exposed in several places on rim where stitching has deteriorated. Stitching is plant fibre material in three natural colours, most of the basket is beige, two rows of reddish wood coloured diamonds, each approx.4 cm. high x 3 cm. wide, are outlined in a continous black zig-zag pattern, the two rows of decoration are about 5 cm. apart, the top row is close to the rim, rim is fastened off in a simple coil sewing. A small hole (.70 cm.) in center bottom where coil begins.
- Subject
- Indigenous, Mono
- households
- basketry
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0101
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