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Animal Spirits
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- Artist
- Peter Nauya
- Date
- n.d.
- Catalogue Number
- NaP.06.01
- Description
- Compound form of caribou calf with upraised head merged with opposite facing head of animal with one bear-like claw and long tail or tentacle. Details in heads of animals; set on flat base which is scratched Peter Nauya 71921. Poss. same artist as Peter Nowya of Povungnituk, reference Image 344 of …
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- Artist
- Peter Nauya
- Title
- Animal Spirits
- Date
- n.d.
- Dimensions
- 11.0 x 6.5 x 17.5 cm
- Description
- Compound form of caribou calf with upraised head merged with opposite facing head of animal with one bear-like claw and long tail or tentacle. Details in heads of animals; set on flat base which is scratched Peter Nauya 71921. Poss. same artist as Peter Nowya of Povungnituk, reference Image 344 of Swinton, Geo. Sculpture of the Eskimo.
- Subject
- animal, caribou
- symbolism
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- NaP.06.01
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Siwash House Posts, Tsatsisnukomi
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactphw.04.47
- Date
- prior to 1963
- Medium
- coloured woodcut on paper
- Catalogue Number
- PhW.04.47
- Description
- Same as PhW.04.08. One of a seven part portfolio The Canadian Scene assembled in 1928. Portfolio #273. Two brown totem poles dominate right half of picture, they are looking out to the bay, a boat is on the shore, a house is seen in centre left, green trees on horizon, a blue sky, some white clouds…
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- Title
- Siwash House Posts, Tsatsisnukomi
- Date
- prior to 1963
- Medium
- coloured woodcut on paper
- Dimensions
- 20.5; 20.9 x 15.8; 15.8 cm
- Description
- Same as PhW.04.08. One of a seven part portfolio The Canadian Scene assembled in 1928. Portfolio #273. Two brown totem poles dominate right half of picture, they are looking out to the bay, a boat is on the shore, a house is seen in centre left, green trees on horizon, a blue sky, some white clouds. Printed on Goyu paper from six cherry-wood blocks.
- Credit
- Gift of Dr. Glen Edwards, Calgary, 1983
- Catalogue Number
- PhW.04.47
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Siwash House Posts, Tsatsisnukomi, B.C.
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactphw.04.08
- Date
- prior to 1963
- Medium
- woodcut on paper
- Catalogue Number
- PhW.04.08
- Description
- Colour: brown and blue. Two totems one behind and beside the other, fill the right half. At the lower left corner is a beach with a boat pulled up. The water beyond is green and blue with a far shoreline appearing half way up. There is a house, a point of land and trees behind on the shore. Sky is …
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- Title
- Siwash House Posts, Tsatsisnukomi, B.C.
- Date
- prior to 1963
- Medium
- woodcut on paper
- Dimensions
- 21.4 x 16.3 cm
- Description
- Colour: brown and blue. Two totems one behind and beside the other, fill the right half. At the lower left corner is a beach with a boat pulled up. The water beyond is green and blue with a far shoreline appearing half way up. There is a house, a point of land and trees behind on the shore. Sky is clouded near the horizon and blue beyond.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1969
- Catalogue Number
- PhW.04.08
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Spirit of the Hunt
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- Artist
- Robert Muskego
- Date
- 1973
- Medium
- oil on board
- Catalogue Number
- MuR.02.02
- Description
- Symbolic painting on white ground with dominant, bright colours of black, yellow, blue; signed Robert Muskego '73 brc; $25.00 pencilled on back of board. Interior white fish shape contains human profile with yellow eye - fish eye also; note foot, spear and bearpaw snowshoe; fish is inside large bla…
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- Artist
- Robert Muskego
- Title
- Spirit of the Hunt
- Date
- 1973
- Medium
- oil on board
- Dimensions
- 45.5 x 35.4 cm
- Description
- Symbolic painting on white ground with dominant, bright colours of black, yellow, blue; signed Robert Muskego '73 brc; $25.00 pencilled on back of board. Interior white fish shape contains human profile with yellow eye - fish eye also; note foot, spear and bearpaw snowshoe; fish is inside large black animal - bear?; yellow arc upper left of painting represents bow being strung; blue represents streams and lakes and rust earth; small amount of red symbolizes blood of animal - this explanation was given to Catharine and Jon Whyte when Muskego was visiting them in Banff.
- Subject
- symbolism
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- MuR.02.02
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Symbolic Painting
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- Artist
- Harvey Scanie
- Date
- 1978
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- ScH.02.01
- Description
- Mandala superimposed on yellow/orange sun glow, four quarter-circle designs at each corner. Two face profiles at either edge of painting, left and right.
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- Artist
- Harvey Scanie
- Title
- Symbolic Painting
- Date
- 1978
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 45.5 x 61.0 cm
- Description
- Mandala superimposed on yellow/orange sun glow, four quarter-circle designs at each corner. Two face profiles at either edge of painting, left and right.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- ScH.02.01
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- Artist
- Robert Muskego
- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- oil on board
- Catalogue Number
- MuR.02.03
- Description
- Three abstract geese in flight; signed Robert Muskego/71 blc. Imagery is derived from cover painting for I Am An Indian ed. Kent Carpenter, published 1967 (approx.).
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- Artist
- Robert Muskego
- Title
- Three Geese
- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- oil on board
- Dimensions
- 39.6 x 54.6 cm
- Description
- Three abstract geese in flight; signed Robert Muskego/71 blc. Imagery is derived from cover painting for I Am An Indian ed. Kent Carpenter, published 1967 (approx.).
- Subject
- animal, geese
- symbolism
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- MuR.02.03
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- Artist
- Robert Muskego
- Date
- c. 1971
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- MuR.02.01
- Description
- Symbolic painting of two warriors and a meiser (white); R.M. and symbol blc; Weetigo written on back stretcher.
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- Artist
- Robert Muskego
- Title
- Weetigo
- Date
- c. 1971
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 20.3 x 61.0 cm
- Description
- Symbolic painting of two warriors and a meiser (white); R.M. and symbol blc; Weetigo written on back stretcher.
- Subject
- symbolism
- mythological
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- MuR.02.01
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- Date
- 1960
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- MuN.04.01
- Description
- General colour: green, yellow. A single bird faces left in the cenwer of the composition. A small red and black seal (insignia) is in the upper right corner.
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- Title
- Young Curlew
- Date
- 1960
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 35.1 x 31.6 cm
- Description
- General colour: green, yellow. A single bird faces left in the cenwer of the composition. A small red and black seal (insignia) is in the upper right corner.
- Subject
- symbolism
- mythological
- bird
- curlew
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1971
- Catalogue Number
- MuN.04.01
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- Date
- prior to 1963
- Medium
- woodcut on paper
- Catalogue Number
- PhW.04.12
- Description
- Colour: black and white. A pole runs up the left side. Down beside it to the right is a plant, above which is a totem figure with arms outstretched. At its base are the back views of two human figures in hats. In the lower right area are two mountain peaks meeting an empty white sky.
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- Title
- Zunuk
- Date
- prior to 1963
- Medium
- woodcut on paper
- Dimensions
- 12.5 x 18.9 cm
- Description
- Colour: black and white. A pole runs up the left side. Down beside it to the right is a plant, above which is a totem figure with arms outstretched. At its base are the back views of two human figures in hats. In the lower right area are two mountain peaks meeting an empty white sky.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- figure, male
- lake
- symbolism
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977
- Catalogue Number
- PhW.04.12
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