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Date
1960 – 1970
Material
skin; hair; glass; fibre
Catalogue Number
108.05.0019
Description
An Indigenous doll wearing simple buckskin dress with large floral design of blue leaves with orange glass centres beaded across chest and back. Horsehair stitched to head gathered at each side, with a single buckskin thong looped across back of head, simple notched headband, and beaded features of…
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Title
Doll
Date
1960 – 1970
Material
skin; hair; glass; fibre
Dimensions
33.0 x 7.0 x 17.0 cm
Description
An Indigenous doll wearing simple buckskin dress with large floral design of blue leaves with orange glass centres beaded across chest and back. Horsehair stitched to head gathered at each side, with a single buckskin thong looped across back of head, simple notched headband, and beaded features of blue eyes and red mouth, with black bead nostrils. Buckskin moccasins with flap at heel and short buckskin leggings sewn to body. Underbody of firmly stuffed red fabric, hands stitched to side of body.
Subject
Indigenous
playthings
children
figure
female
beadwork
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
108.05.0019
Images
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Portrait of a Grandmother

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactsmj.04.06
Artist
James Agrell Smith (1913 – 1988, Canadian)
Date
prior to 1988
Medium
woodcut on paper
Catalogue Number
SmJ.04.06
Description
Colour: black on white. In the lower left corner is the head and shoulders of an elderly woman looking left. Behind her in the center is a large hat and shawl hanging on the wall.
Artist
James Agrell Smith (1913 – 1988, Canadian)
Title
Portrait of a Grandmother
Date
prior to 1988
Medium
woodcut on paper
Dimensions
22.5 x 28.0 cm
Description
Colour: black on white. In the lower left corner is the head and shoulders of an elderly woman looking left. Behind her in the center is a large hat and shawl hanging on the wall.
Subject
portrait
female
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977
Catalogue Number
SmJ.04.06
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