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- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- wood; metal; skin; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 104.24.1006
- Description
- Shaped wooden handle with a natural bend has a piece of metal inserted into end. Secured with black adhesive tape and skin.
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- Title
- Hide Scraper
- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- wood; metal; skin; fibre
- Dimensions
- 25.5 cm
- Description
- Shaped wooden handle with a natural bend has a piece of metal inserted into end. Secured with black adhesive tape and skin.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- households
- leatherworking
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1970
- Catalogue Number
- 104.24.1006
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- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- feather; glass; sinew; skin; metal; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.3003 a,b
- Description
- Axe head and handle, separated.a) Metal axe head with a notched edge for pulling nails and a hammer end opposite the blade. The centre is wrapped with hide and sinew.b) Wooden stick handle wrapped with red flannel, hide and blue and white beads. Feathers and fur are attached with sinew. A braide…
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- Title
- Tomahawk Ax
- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- feather; glass; sinew; skin; metal; wood
- Dimensions
- 3.0 (a); 3.0 (b) x 8.0 (a); 2.2 (b) x 15.0 (a); 34.0 (b) cm
- Description
- Axe head and handle, separated.a) Metal axe head with a notched edge for pulling nails and a hammer end opposite the blade. The centre is wrapped with hide and sinew.b) Wooden stick handle wrapped with red flannel, hide and blue and white beads. Feathers and fur are attached with sinew. A braided thong strap handle is tied on near the end.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- households
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.3003 a,b
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- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- wood; metal; sinew; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 104.24.3006
- Description
- Wooden handle with a right angle near the top. A metal blade is embedded in the wood and held in place with sinew, cloth and wire. A diamond pattern has been cut into the handle.
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- Title
- Scraper
- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- wood; metal; sinew; fibre
- Dimensions
- 5.0 x 22.5 cm
- Description
- Wooden handle with a right angle near the top. A metal blade is embedded in the wood and held in place with sinew, cloth and wire. A diamond pattern has been cut into the handle.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- crafts
- carving
- households
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.24.3006
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- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- metal; skin
- Catalogue Number
- 104.24.3008
- Description
- Metal pipe wrapped with white hide and with attached hide strap handle. A serrated metal blade is inserted in one end of the pipe and held in place with wire. The flesher is heavy and there are loose pieces (shot?) inside.
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- Title
- Flesher
- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- metal; skin
- Dimensions
- 4.0 x 28.5 cm
- Description
- Metal pipe wrapped with white hide and with attached hide strap handle. A serrated metal blade is inserted in one end of the pipe and held in place with wire. The flesher is heavy and there are loose pieces (shot?) inside.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- crafts
- households
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.24.3008
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Needlework Kit
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.24.3010
- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- skin; sinew; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 104.24.3010
- Description
- Plastic bag containing pieces of hide and sinew used for mending.
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- Title
- Needlework Kit
- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- skin; sinew; fibre
- Description
- Plastic bag containing pieces of hide and sinew used for mending.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- crafts
- sewing
- needlework
- households
- clothing
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.24.3010
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- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- wood; metal; skin
- Catalogue Number
- 104.24.3012
- Description
- Scraper of peeled wood with shaped head and notch in handle near base. Serrated metal blade, from tape dispenser, held in place with thong. The handle is decorated with lines burnt into the wood.
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- Title
- Scraper
- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- wood; metal; skin
- Dimensions
- 3.5 x 8.0 x 18.0 cm
- Description
- Scraper of peeled wood with shaped head and notch in handle near base. Serrated metal blade, from tape dispenser, held in place with thong. The handle is decorated with lines burnt into the wood.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- crafts
- carving
- households
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.24.3012
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- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- skin
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.3005
- Description
- Rectangular piece of thin hide (chamois) with each month and corresponding Native moon and illustration drawn on in marker (example: “APRIL” “FROG MOON” with drawing of a frog). The bottom half of the calendar has “FORE CAST OF MONTH” with illustrations of the moon’s crescent just after new moo…
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- Title
- Calendar
- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- skin
- Dimensions
- 88.0 x 40.0 cm
- Description
- Rectangular piece of thin hide (chamois) with each month and corresponding Native moon and illustration drawn on in marker (example: “APRIL” “FROG MOON” with drawing of a frog). The bottom half of the calendar has “FORE CAST OF MONTH” with illustrations of the moon’s crescent just after new moon and what that forecasts for the month’s weather.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- households
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.3005
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- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- skin
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.3006
- Description
- Pieced and machine sewn semi-circle miniature teepee cover. Two front flaps have poem written in marker “Legend of the Buffalo” with narration from a bison’s perspective.
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- Title
- Poem
- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- skin
- Dimensions
- 114.0 x 71.1 cm
- Description
- Pieced and machine sewn semi-circle miniature teepee cover. Two front flaps have poem written in marker “Legend of the Buffalo” with narration from a bison’s perspective.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- households
- animals, bison
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.3006
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Trinket Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.0177
- Date
- 1950 – 1960
- Material
- bark; grass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0177
- Description
- Cylindrical, flat-bottomed, birchbark, unlidded box. Bottom is stitched to wall by reed or cane, and top rim is bound in read or cane. No other decoration.
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- Title
- Trinket Basket
- Date
- 1950 – 1960
- Material
- bark; grass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 6.8 x 12.5 cm
- Description
- Cylindrical, flat-bottomed, birchbark, unlidded box. Bottom is stitched to wall by reed or cane, and top rim is bound in read or cane. No other decoration.
- Subject
- households
- Indigenous
- crafts
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0177
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Basketry Cup And Saucer
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.0372%20a%2cb
- Date
- 1950 – 1960
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0372 a,b
- Description
- A small cup and saucer woven completely of split cedar(?) (a) cup - very simple deep shape with stiff braided loop handle at one side, three imbricated parallelograms around outside, one blue, one pink, one green, twining technique, lip finished in lighter colour twining. (b) saucer - small shallow…
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- Title
- Basketry Cup And Saucer
- Date
- 1950 – 1960
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 4.5 x 8.2 cm
- Description
- A small cup and saucer woven completely of split cedar(?) (a) cup - very simple deep shape with stiff braided loop handle at one side, three imbricated parallelograms around outside, one blue, one pink, one green, twining technique, lip finished in lighter colour twining. (b) saucer - small shallow dish of twining technique to match cup with a series of green, pink and red parallelograms imbricated around the edge, which is finished with a lighter colour twining.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- miniatures
- Indigenous
- basketry
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0372 a,b
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