Ancient Meeting
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactkia.04.10
- Date
- 1960
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- KiA.04.10
- Description
- Two figures face each other, irregularly shaped people, the woman with a baby on her back. She also has a tail or the long end of her parka. The couple appear animated, each has a hand outstretched. Brc artist and printer's chops in red, Dorset chop in black.
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- Title
- Ancient Meeting
- Date
- 1960
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 63.7 x 48.3 cm
- Description
- Two figures face each other, irregularly shaped people, the woman with a baby on her back. She also has a tail or the long end of her parka. The couple appear animated, each has a hand outstretched. Brc artist and printer's chops in red, Dorset chop in black.
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- KiA.04.10
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Nine Arctic Birds
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactkia.04.01
- Date
- 1960
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- KiA.04.01
- Description
- Two rows of bird silhouettes; top row has 5 birds, all different in various poses, roughly the same size; the bottom row has 4 birds, all different, 2 on left same size as the top row, 2 bottom right are larger; they are all a light gray/blue with darker at tips; the centre top bird has some brown;…
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- Title
- Nine Arctic Birds
- Date
- 1960
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 29.5; 39.2 x 49.0; 63.5 cm
- Description
- Two rows of bird silhouettes; top row has 5 birds, all different in various poses, roughly the same size; the bottom row has 4 birds, all different, 2 on left same size as the top row, 2 bottom right are larger; they are all a light gray/blue with darker at tips; the centre top bird has some brown; artists chop has 2 red boxes with symbols and an igloo; written in pencil in English from left bottom edge: Nine Arctic Birds Skin Stencil 9/50 Cape Dorset Baffin Island 1960 Kiakshuk.
- Subject
- animal, bird, group
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- KiA.04.01
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