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Blanket Chest

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Date: 1750 – 1800

Material: wood; metal

Catalogue Number: 102.03.0085

Description: A four legged, supported top-opening chest, panels on front are inset into vertical post by mortise and tenon technique; three front panels have diamond pattern with floral carved relief. Inside the chest is a lidded inset shelf.

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Title: Blanket Chest

Date: 1750 – 1800

Material: wood; metal

Dimensions: 60.5 x 49.7 x 99.0 cm

Description: A four legged, supported top-opening chest, panels on front are inset into vertical post by mortise and tenon technique; three front panels have diamond pattern with floral carved relief. Inside the chest is a lidded inset shelf.

Subject: households, furniture

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 102.03.0085

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Drop-Front Desk

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Date: 1750 – 1825

Material: wood; metal

Catalogue Number: 102.03.0104

Description: A four-drawer secretary desk with drop front hinged and two pull-out supports for lowered front. All hardware in good condition. Governor Winthrop style. Interior of desk back has cubbyholes and two deep, narrow slot drawers. Also a hidden drawer centre top. Secret drawer has a letter inside fr…

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Title: Drop-Front Desk

Date: 1750 – 1825

Material: wood; metal

Dimensions: 110.0 x 54.0 x 101.0 cm

Description: A four-drawer secretary desk with drop front hinged and two pull-out supports for lowered front. All hardware in good condition. Governor Winthrop style. Interior of desk back has cubbyholes and two deep, narrow slot drawers. Also a hidden drawer centre top. Secret drawer has a letter inside from Catharine's mother dated October 7, 1938, part of it reads: "I am going to find out about the age of the desk 150 years anyway & most likely older. My father bought it 60 years ago, from the old Derby house in Salem, where Lafayette stayed & the desk was old then." Letter now in Archives M36/164.

Subject: households; furniture; E.S. Morse

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 102.03.0104

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Collection Scroll End

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Date: 1750 – 1850

Material: wood; ivory

Catalogue Number: 105.02.0092 a-q

Description: A collection of 17 various caps used to conceal the rough ends of dowels on which scrolls are rolled. 10 smooth, polished, cylindrical pieces of ivory, roughly hollowed with small inset lip at one end to accommodate dowel, some with hairline cracks. 7 smoothly finished wooden caps, one black pai…

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Title: Collection Scroll End

Date: 1750 – 1850

Material: wood; ivory

Description: A collection of 17 various caps used to conceal the rough ends of dowels on which scrolls are rolled. 10 smooth, polished, cylindrical pieces of ivory, roughly hollowed with small inset lip at one end to accommodate dowel, some with hairline cracks. 7 smoothly finished wooden caps, one black painted wooden peg.

Subject: households; Japanese; Edward S. Morse; Edith Morse Robb

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 105.02.0092 a-q

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Ladle

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Date: 1728 – 1800

Material: horn; metal

Catalogue Number: 104.20.0553

Description: Oval, almost flat bottomed ladle with short shaft connected to spiralled, bone, silver tipped handle. Coin is inset in base of ladle and is visible from either side. "heads" with portrait, "tails" side of coin, outside ladle, indicated 1728 date and slogans, shields. Engraving on outside of …

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Title: Ladle

Date: 1728 – 1800

Material: horn; metal

Dimensions: 2.7 x 8.0 x 35.5 cm

Description: Oval, almost flat bottomed ladle with short shaft connected to spiralled, bone, silver tipped handle. Coin is inset in base of ladle and is visible from either side. "heads" with portrait, "tails" side of coin, outside ladle, indicated 1728 date and slogans, shields. Engraving on outside of ladle under rim "H/W*S".

Subject: households; Edith Morse Robb

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 104.20.0553

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Tomahawk Ax

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Date: 1780 – 1850

Material: metal; wood

Catalogue Number: 104.06.1004

Description: Triangular iron blade, wooden pipe shaped handle, blade 14.2 long flares from 1.3 cm wide to 4.8 cm wide, 5 horizontal lines are etched extending around top of blade, edge of blade is chipped, wooden handle 32.5 long has an "H" etched into the wood 10.6 cm from bottom, 4 wires wind around the handl…

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Title: Tomahawk Ax

Date: 1780 – 1850

Material: metal; wood

Dimensions: 2.6 x 20.5 x 32.5 cm

Description: Triangular iron blade, wooden pipe shaped handle, blade 14.2 long flares from 1.3 cm wide to 4.8 cm wide, 5 horizontal lines are etched extending around top of blade, edge of blade is chipped, wooden handle 32.5 long has an "H" etched into the wood 10.6 cm from bottom, 4 wires wind around the handle 7.5 cm form top, handle has a black top and bottom, top curves to form a pipe shaped handle, blade seems to be inserted directly through top part of the handle

Subject: Indigenous; warfare

Credit: Gift of Don Maskel, 1967

Catalogue Number: 104.06.1004

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Petrified Wood

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Date: prior to 1800

Material: wood

Catalogue Number: 112.03.1012

Description: A piece of petrified wood. It is a portion of a large piece broken at both ends.

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Title: Petrified Wood

Date: prior to 1800

Material: wood

Dimensions: 12.1 x 15.3 x 16.0 cm

Description: A piece of petrified wood. It is a portion of a large piece broken at both ends.

Subject: pre history; paleontology; botany

Credit: Gift of Bill de Haan, Canmore, 1970

Catalogue Number: 112.03.1012

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Trilobite, Ammonite Fossil

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Date: prior to 1800

Material: mineral; paleontology

Catalogue Number: 112.03.1017 a,b

Description: (a) trilobite is quite nice, it is on a rock slab 12.4 x 10.8 cm, the trilobite measuring 9.3x4.7 cm, part of the tail is missing.(b) ammonite (9.5x8.7 cm) is actually a shape of an ammonite depressed in a large circular slab of rock measuring 27.0 dia and 2.2 thick.

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Title: Trilobite, Ammonite Fossil

Date: prior to 1800

Material: mineral; paleontology

Description: (a) trilobite is quite nice, it is on a rock slab 12.4 x 10.8 cm, the trilobite measuring 9.3x4.7 cm, part of the tail is missing.(b) ammonite (9.5x8.7 cm) is actually a shape of an ammonite depressed in a large circular slab of rock measuring 27.0 dia and 2.2 thick.

Subject: prehistory; paleontology

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1978

Catalogue Number: 112.03.1017 a,b

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Ammonite Fossil

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Date: prior to 1800

Material: mineral

Catalogue Number: 112.03.1016

Description: An ammonite that is in quite good shape except that the tail is missing. There is no parts of the rock attached to it.

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Title: Ammonite Fossil

Date: prior to 1800

Material: mineral

Dimensions: 4.5 cm

Description: An ammonite that is in quite good shape except that the tail is missing. There is no parts of the rock attached to it.

Subject: prehistory; paleontology

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1978

Catalogue Number: 112.03.1016

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Meteorite

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Date: prior to 1800

Material: metal

Catalogue Number: 112.03.1001

Description: a small rust coloured meteorite with the top missing exposing the grey metals inside.

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Title: Meteorite

Date: prior to 1800

Material: metal

Description: a small rust coloured meteorite with the top missing exposing the grey metals inside.

Subject: prehistory; geology

Credit: Gift of Forrest (Pat) Oliver Brewster, Banff, 1966

Catalogue Number: 112.03.1001

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Bludgeon Hammerhead

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Date: prior to 1800

Material: mineral

Catalogue Number: 104.06.1012

Description: An oval shaped rock with an indentation around middle to secure a band.

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Title: Bludgeon Hammerhead

Date: prior to 1800

Material: mineral

Dimensions: 11.1 cm

Description: An oval shaped rock with an indentation around middle to secure a band.

Subject: Indigenous; warfare

Credit: Gift of Joe A. Brewster, Banff, 1980

Catalogue Number: 104.06.1012

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Trilobite Fossil

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Date: prior to 1800

Material: mineral

Catalogue Number: 112.03.1003 a-s

Description: 19 pieces of slate and slabs of limestone containing imprints of trilobites, some whole, halves or just parts; many pieces are merely fragments of trilobites:(a) a piece of limestone 2.3cm high x 11.0x6.7cm wide, with a clear, whole, imprint of a small trilobite (3.0x2.0 cm wide); (b) a piece of li…

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Title: Trilobite Fossil

Date: prior to 1800

Material: mineral

Description: 19 pieces of slate and slabs of limestone containing imprints of trilobites, some whole, halves or just parts; many pieces are merely fragments of trilobites:(a) a piece of limestone 2.3cm high x 11.0x6.7cm wide, with a clear, whole, imprint of a small trilobite (3.0x2.0 cm wide); (b) a piece of limestone 2.5cm high x 17.3x7.5cm wide, with a clear, whole imprint of a small trilobite (5.7x3.0 cm wide).(c) a piece of slate 1.5 cm high x 9.7x8.0cm wide, almost whole imprints of two trilobites one (5.0x3.0 cm wide ) and the smaller one 2.0x 1.5 cm wide;(d) a piece of slate 1.20 cm high x 16.0x9.0cm wide with an almost whole, but not very clear imprint, of a trilobite, missing head 10.5x5.5cm wide;(e) a piece of limestone 2.50 cm x 11.0 high x14.5 cm wide with an almost whole imprint of a trilobite (6.9x3.8cm wide);(f) a piece of limestone 2.5cm high x 7.5x9.3 cm wide, with a partial imprint of a small trilobite (6.4x3.7 cm wide);(g) a piece of limestone 1.3cm high x 8.7x9.0 cm wide, with a partial imprint of a small trilobite (3.2x2.5 cm wide);(h) a piece of slate 2.4cm high x 7.5x8.5 cm wide, with a partial imprint of a trilobite (3.2x3.0 cm wide);(i) a piece of slate 1.80cm high x 9.0x11.0 cm wide, with an almost whole imprint of a trilobite (6.4x3.7 cm wide);(j) a piece of slate 1.20 cm high x 16.0x9.0cm wide with a partial imprint of a trilobite, missing head, 10.5x5.5cm wide. There is also a partial imprint on the back;(k) a piece of slate 2.2 cm high x 7.3x18.0cm wide with an almost whole imprint of a trilobite, 10.0x5.3cm wide. There is also two partial imprints on the back;(l) a piece of slate 1.2 cm high x 5.0x11.2 cm wide, with about one third of an imprint of a trilobite (3.2x4.5 cm wide);(m) a piece of slate .08cm high x10.3.x7.0 cm wide, with an almost whole imprint of a trilobite (3.2x.9.5x7.2 cm wide);(n) a small (0.80cm high) piece of slate 5.5x7.5 cm wide, with a partial imprint of a trilobite (4.0x5.8 cm wide);(o) a very small (0.80cm) high piece of slate 5.3x2.8 cm wide, with a partial, but very clear, imprint of a trilobite (4.5x2.7 cm wide);(p) a piece of slate 9.2x8.5 cm wide, with a few very small (almost indiscernible) traces of trilobite;(q) a piece of slate 9.5x12.8 cm wide, with a long, but very narrow, trace of the side of a trilobite;(r) a piece of slate that doesn’t seem to have anything distinguishable although it is part of a fossil;(s) a small (0.70cm high) piece of slate 3.7x3.5 cm wide, with a partial imprint of a trilobite (1.9x3.5 cm wide).