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Date
2008
Material
fabric; plastic; metal
Catalogue Number
103.08.1143
Description
A small bag from Nepal, woven on the back, and woven and embroidered on the front, with a multi-coloured corded strap (135.0cm) sewn onto the side of the bag, extending from the fringed bottom 4.0cm suspended from a blue plastic bead, to an over-the-shoulder cord. The front part is backed by a blac…
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Title
Shoulder Bag
Date
2008
Material
fabric; plastic; metal
Dimensions
15.5 x 19.0 cm
Description
A small bag from Nepal, woven on the back, and woven and embroidered on the front, with a multi-coloured corded strap (135.0cm) sewn onto the side of the bag, extending from the fringed bottom 4.0cm suspended from a blue plastic bead, to an over-the-shoulder cord. The front part is backed by a black muslin cotton piece that forms a separate compartment. There is a plastic and metal black zipper (15.0cm) on the top portion of the bag (one compartment) and the same kind and size of zipper lower down (5.0cm) opening onto a separate compartment. The bottom front of the bag 13.5x15.0cm wide) is gold satin with a circular embroidered design; the top part (5.0x15.0cm wide) is a multi-coloured woven design the same as the entire back of the bag. The paper price tag is attached by a piece of clear plastic; it reads “TEN THOUSAND VILLAGES” in red lettering and “ MADE IN/FABRIQUE DU NEPAL/NEPAL 5900165” in black lettering and the barcode underneath.
Subject
households
clothing
accessory
crafts
Nepal
Mary Andrews
Credit
Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009
Catalogue Number
103.08.1143
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Date
2003
Material
paper; plastic
Catalogue Number
104.20.1140 a-c
Description
Three double-sided, plastic-covered scenic placemats with: (a) having one coloured photographic reproduction of Bow Lake on one side and a black-and-white photographic reproduction of Crowfoot Glacier on the other; (b,c) Alberta’s wildflowers on one side of both; (b) a colour photograph reproductio…
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Title
Placemat
Date
2003
Material
paper; plastic
Dimensions
29.0 x 44.2 cm
Description
Three double-sided, plastic-covered scenic placemats with: (a) having one coloured photographic reproduction of Bow Lake on one side and a black-and-white photographic reproduction of Crowfoot Glacier on the other; (b,c) Alberta’s wildflowers on one side of both; (b) a colour photograph reproduction of Lake Louise; (c) a colour photographic reproduction of Moraine Lake. (a) The lower half of the photograph is the lake and shoreline and the top half is mountains and sky. The foreground of the lake’s shore is in the shade and mostly dark, except for a bit of green vegetation in the viewer’s extreme left-hand corner and some green bushes bunched together in the lower middle. Some sunlight hits part of the brown-coloured vegetation and logs. There are parts of dark branches of a spruce tree from top to bottom on the viewer’s left; mid-centre the shore juts out and further down, a log with some branches. On the viewer’s right there are heavy green branches, the bottom part in the shade, that form part of a spruce tree from top to bottom. The lake is sunlit from the left with reflections of the mountains in the shimmering water. The shore beyond is lined with trees and the grey mountains, with some snow on the peaks, above and further to the viewer’s right, a glimpse of a glacier. On the viewer’s far right some green vegetation and than a rust-coloured moraine, leading up to a mountain barely discernable through the spruce tree branches. The sky is blue with white, puffy clouds. On the white border, printed in black script, in viewer’s left-hand bottom corner “Bow Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada”; on the white border, printed in black italics, in viewer’s right-hand bottom corner “Photo Don Harmon” and underneath it “Distributed b Byron Harmon Photos, P.O. Box 490, Banff, Alberta”. On the opposite side of the placemat is a copy of a black-and-white photograph by Byron Harmon of Crowfoot Glacier in 1917. The foreground is branches, vegetation and one large spruce tree, on the viewer’s far right, that rises almost to the top of the photograph. Mid-centre, four packhorses, carrying their diamond-hitch loads, are grazing near two spruce trees. A bank of trees behind the horses rises steadily to the viewer’s right and the giant Crowfoot Glacier, with three complete ‘toes’, to the viewer’s right and one incomplete ‘toe’ on the left, makes up the top-half, except for a bit of sky, mid-to-far left. On the white border, in viewer’s left-hand bottom corner, printed in black lettering, is “Crowfoot Glacier 1917” and on the right-hand bottom corner “Photo B. Harmon”.(b) and (c): on one side, in the middle of the placemats is a large rectangle with a white background and “Wild Flowers of the Canadian Rockies” printed in script-style, in dark pink ink. A pink wild rose, open, a bulb without petals, and two stems with leaves, are mid-centre to viewer’s left. “Wild Rose” is printed in black script to the the left and “Alberta’s Floral Emblem” is printed, to the right of the rose, in light blue script. The outside edge of the placemat has 16 brown-framed boxes with pictures and the printed name of the following flowers: starting from viewer’s left top, clockwise: “Blue Flax”, “Yellow Vetch”, “Indian Paintbrush”, ”Pink Pussy Toes”, “Buffalo Berry”, “Heart-Leaf Arnica”, “Hare Bells”, “Tiger Lily”, “Sagebrush Buttercup”, “Wood Violet”, “Crocus”, “American Vetch” , “Strawberry”, “Yellow Columbine” , and “Fire Weed”. On the other other side of (b) (30.0x44.20cm wide), the photo is dominated by a summer view of Lake Louise, the Victoria Glacier behind, and the front lawn and swimming pool of Chateau Lake Louise. The foreground is made up, on viewer’s left, of: lawn and walkway, fence and lake walkway, three people walking, one person standing, one person sitting at a table, three spruce trees, three horses with riders, and red, yellow and white poppies. In the foreground, on viewer’s middle and right, are two more horses with riders, three people on the walkway, two people sitting on chairs at a table, more poppies, spruce trees and a white roofless structure, with openings all around, that surrounds a swimming pool with people, one diving in midair. The middle of the scene is the turquoise-blue waters of Lake Louise, with the reflection of Victoria Glacier, and a canoe with two people in it. The rest of the scene is mountains in shade on the viewer’s left, the sunlit Victoria Glacier in the middle, and wooded mountains to the right. The sky is a deep blue. On the white border, viewer’s left, printed in black ink “Distributed by United News (wholesalers) Ltd., Calgary, Alberta, Canada”; in the middle, printed in black, “LAKE LOUISE” and underneath, “BANFF NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA, CANADA”. On the white border, viewer’s right-hand bottom corner, printed in black ink, “A Traveltime Canada Placemat / PMS-6218” and underneath, “printed in Canada by lawson graphics pacific limited vancouver, british columbia”. The other side of (c) (30.3x44.4cm wide) is a summer image of Moraine Lake with six of the mountain peaks behind it. The foreground is spruce trees, rocks and the blue waters of Moraine Lake. To the viewer’s left is the top of a spruce tree extending to the grey moraine above, then two more spruce trees, grey rocks, a brown rocky path leading to the viewer’s right, a small coniferous tree, and at viewer’s far right, a large spruce tree reaching the top of the image. In the viewer’s right-hand bottom corner, the words “DON HARMON” is printed in yellow. Water can seen through the trees and the reflection of the mountains and trees is discernible. Above the moraine and trees on the viewer’s far left is a shaded tree-covered slope reaching the top of the image. Coniferous trees line the lake shore, above which moraine and snow move from the five mountain peaks, toward the lake. The sky is bright blue above the grey, granite mountains, that have some snow on them. On the white border, viewer’s left-hand bottom corner, printed in black ink “Distributed by United News (wholesalers) Ltd., Calgary, Alberta, Canada” and underneath “Photo by Don Harmon”; in the middle, in black ink “MORAINE LAKE” and underneath “BANFF NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA, CANADA”; in the viewer’s right-hand bottom corner, printed in black ink, “A Traveltime Canada Placemat / PMS-6218” and underneath, “printed in Canada by lawson graphics pacific limited vancouver, british columbia”.
Subject
households
kitchen
photograph
landscape
mountain
lake
Rockies
wildflower
Credit
Gift of Ursula Welford, Thorold, 2003
Catalogue Number
104.20.1140 a-c
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Artist
Lorne Cooley
Date
2002
Medium
on fabric
Catalogue Number
CoL.08.01
Description
A denim rug woven on a hand-made loom. The blue and white rug is made from recycled blue jeans. The warp thread is light yellow and appears to be white on the rug but the fringe shows it to be yellow.
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Artist
Lorne Cooley
Title
Untitled (rug)
Date
2002
Medium
on fabric
Dimensions
79.5 x 95.0 (108.50 with fringe) cm
Description
A denim rug woven on a hand-made loom. The blue and white rug is made from recycled blue jeans. The warp thread is light yellow and appears to be white on the rug but the fringe shows it to be yellow.
Subject
households
furnishings
crafts
weaving
Lorne Cooley
Mary Andrews
Credit
Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2004
Catalogue Number
CoL.08.01
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Date
2001
Material
metal
Catalogue Number
103.01.1040
Description
A simple flat copper bracelet folded under .50cm at each end. “HELEN LOVE GEORGE” is crudely engraved on the outside middle.
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Title
Bracelet
Date
2001
Material
metal
Dimensions
2.0 x 17.7 cm
Description
A simple flat copper bracelet folded under .50cm at each end. “HELEN LOVE GEORGE” is crudely engraved on the outside middle.
Subject
households
adornment
Credit
Gift of anonymous, 2001
Catalogue Number
103.01.1040
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Date
1979
Material
fibre
Catalogue Number
103.05.1091
Description
Green, white lettering "Banff '79", ordinary green cotton short sleeve t-shirt, large white lettering on front: BANFF (9.0 high), underneath "79" (20.0 high), "C.S.S. LTD" under '79, light brown paint stains on front
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Title
T-Shirt
Date
1979
Material
fibre
Dimensions
46.0 x 64.0 cm
Description
Green, white lettering "Banff '79", ordinary green cotton short sleeve t-shirt, large white lettering on front: BANFF (9.0 high), underneath "79" (20.0 high), "C.S.S. LTD" under '79, light brown paint stains on front
Subject
souvenir
households
clothing
Credit
Purchased from Rundle Memorial United Church, Banff, 1990
Catalogue Number
103.05.1091
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Date
1978 – 1978
Material
plastic
Catalogue Number
104.20.0474
Description
A clear plastic glass with a drawing of wedding bells in gold and reading “Reg - Elsie, April 12, 1928-1978”.
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Title
Tumbler
Date
1978 – 1978
Material
plastic
Dimensions
11.0 cm
Description
A clear plastic glass with a drawing of wedding bells in gold and reading “Reg - Elsie, April 12, 1928-1978”.
Subject
households
social customs
events
wedding
anniversary
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
104.20.0474
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Bas-Relief Wall Hanging

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Date
1978
Material
plaster; paint; fibre; paint; metal
Catalogue Number
107.02.1043
Description
A piece of cardboard, covered with unbleached woven linen (that has been stapled onto the cardboard) onto which a copy of a ceramic bas-relief (17.5cmx11.5cm wide) from a Mayan temple, has been glued. The bas-relief is of a kneeling woman weaving on a loom tied to a tree trunk. Carved into the cera…
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Title
Bas-Relief Wall Hanging
Date
1978
Material
plaster; paint; fibre; paint; metal
Dimensions
16.0 x 23.0 cm
Description
A piece of cardboard, covered with unbleached woven linen (that has been stapled onto the cardboard) onto which a copy of a ceramic bas-relief (17.5cmx11.5cm wide) from a Mayan temple, has been glued. The bas-relief is of a kneeling woman weaving on a loom tied to a tree trunk. Carved into the ceramic piece “IXCHEL” to the viewer’s right, and underneath in the middle “GODDESS of the the MOON and WEAVING”.
Subject
households
decorative
ceramics
Guatemalan
Mary Andrews
Credit
Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009
Catalogue Number
107.02.1043
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Date
1978
Material
fibre
Catalogue Number
104.20.0231 a-d
Description
A set of four slightly oval coasters made from loosely coiled bunch of fibres tightly wrapped with light natural coloured leaf fibre and knotted together in coil shape with strands of the same fibre. Tied together with two pieces of green raffia.
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Title
Coaster Set
Date
1978
Material
fibre
Dimensions
0.5 x 9.5 x 8.5 cm
Description
A set of four slightly oval coasters made from loosely coiled bunch of fibres tightly wrapped with light natural coloured leaf fibre and knotted together in coil shape with strands of the same fibre. Tied together with two pieces of green raffia.
Subject
households
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
104.20.0231 a-d
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Date
1978
Material
grass
Catalogue Number
107.01.0158
Description
A pair of woven straw snowboots, solidly woven thick sole, upper foot closely woven with braided twining, and shank left unwoven with upright ribs which have been woven around at top leaving ends as fringe around outside. Boots attached together by a length of twisted straw cord.
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Title
Miniature Boots
Date
1978
Material
grass
Dimensions
6.5 x 3.5 x 7.0 cm
Description
A pair of woven straw snowboots, solidly woven thick sole, upper foot closely woven with braided twining, and shank left unwoven with upright ribs which have been woven around at top leaving ends as fringe around outside. Boots attached together by a length of twisted straw cord.
Subject
households
decorative
miniature
Japanese
Omori Society
Edward S. Morse
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
107.01.0158
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Date
1978
Material
ceramic
Catalogue Number
102.04.0216
Description
4 scored feet, indigo colour caused by cobalt glaze. Mandala impression on plate surface with small circular indentations on three sides, slab-built plate. Each foot has chop mark. Signature stamp on bottom of plate.
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Title
Decorative Plate
Date
1978
Material
ceramic
Dimensions
6.5 x 27.0 x 28.0 cm
Description
4 scored feet, indigo colour caused by cobalt glaze. Mandala impression on plate surface with small circular indentations on three sides, slab-built plate. Each foot has chop mark. Signature stamp on bottom of plate.
Subject
households
decorative
Doug Machuk
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
102.04.0216
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