topic:"Baker Lake" found 7 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Description: This square wall hanging has green and black stitching all around the edges and in the corners. In the light background the scene includes in the upper section a male with a bow and arrow aiming at a caribou. The middle section shows a woman with a child on her back and a male figure with an arm ra…

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Family Caribou Hunt

Date: prior to 1962

Medium: wool; hide

Dimensions: 58.0 x 66.0 cm

Description: This square wall hanging has green and black stitching all around the edges and in the corners. In the light background the scene includes in the upper section a male with a bow and arrow aiming at a caribou. The middle section shows a woman with a child on her back and a male figure with an arm raised. Just right of the center is a tee pee. Above the tee pee area is another woman with two children. The bottom area shows a dog tied to a fixed peg in the ground and another figure working on the tee pee. All the image shapes have been cut out of fibre with the exception of the tee pee, it is made from skin. The overall colour in this wall hanging is yellow, black,green and off white.

Subject: figures; male; female; child; activity; hunting; animals; caribou; dog; architecture; teepee

Credit: Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988

Catalogue Number: UnK.08.07

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Pennant

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Date: 1940 – 1965

Material: hair, sheep

Catalogue Number: 105.02.1169 a-b

Description: Pennant (a) is green felt , triangular with 2 small red triangles attached at wide end. Appliqued sign post with signs reading: “LAKE LOUISE”, “CANADIAN ROCKIES”, “ MT. TEMPLE CHALET” “PTARMIGAN VALLEY”, “HALF WAY HUT”, “BAKER LAKE”, “SKOKI LODGE”, in red, yellow and white felt. A small rectangular…

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Title: Pennant

Date: 1940 – 1965

Material: hair, sheep

Dimensions: 19.0 x 63.0 cm

Description: Pennant (a) is green felt , triangular with 2 small red triangles attached at wide end. Appliqued sign post with signs reading: “LAKE LOUISE”, “CANADIAN ROCKIES”, “ MT. TEMPLE CHALET” “PTARMIGAN VALLEY”, “HALF WAY HUT”, “BAKER LAKE”, “SKOKI LODGE”, in red, yellow and white felt. A small rectangular piece of orange felt on bottom of sign post. Green and white paper manufacture’s tag on reverse. Pennant (b) is smaller than pennant (a) measuring, 14.5 cm by 48.0 cm. It is made of gold felt with a stamped on illustration of a pine marten and the words “NUM-TI-JAH LODGE BOW LAKE ALBERTA” in dark brown. Four small felt srtips attached to wide end. Stamp on back reads “LOCALLY MADE AT LAKE LOUISE”

Subject: souvenirs; Num-ti-jah Lodge; Bow Lake; lodges; motels; huts; skiing; Lake Louise; Canadian Rockies; Mt Temple Chalet; Ptarmigan Valley; Half Way Hut; Baker Lake; Skoki Lodge

Credit: Gift of Jim Rouse, Calgary, 2003

Catalogue Number: 105.02.1169 a-b

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Polar Bear Hunt

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Artist: Unknown

Date: prior to 1962

Medium: wool

Catalogue Number: UnK.08.08

Description: The scene in this wall hanging is of a male figure hunting a polar bear. The man is in the top left hand corner and he is holding a spear in his right hand ready to kill the bear. One polar bear is in the center of the wall hanging and the other is just above him heading in the other direction. Th…

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Polar Bear Hunt

Date: prior to 1962

Medium: wool

Dimensions: 53.5 x 63.0 cm

Description: The scene in this wall hanging is of a male figure hunting a polar bear. The man is in the top left hand corner and he is holding a spear in his right hand ready to kill the bear. One polar bear is in the center of the wall hanging and the other is just above him heading in the other direction. The four dogs are on three sides of the polar bear. The edges of the wall hanging are stitched with a criss cross in fibre colours yellow and brown. All the figures are cut out shapes and are all stitched on with a fibre thread.

Subject: activity; hunting; figure; male; animal; polar bear; dog

Credit: Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988

Catalogue Number: UnK.08.08

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Ptarmigan Mountain from Baker Lake

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: Image of an unidentified woman on horseback with Ptarmigan Mountain in the background

Date Range: [ca. 1885-1945]

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 15 / PA - 726

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph; Postcard

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M36 / V683 / S37

Series: V683 / III / A / 15 : Peter and Catharine Whyte: Collected Photographs

Sous-Fonds: V683

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 15 / PA - 726

GMD: Photograph; Postcard

Date Range: [ca. 1885-1945]

Physical Description: Photograph: 1 print (front and back) ; b&w.

Scope & Content: Image of an unidentified woman on horseback with Ptarmigan Mountain in the background

Subject Access: Baker Lake; Horses; Mountains; Portrait; Ptarmigan Mountain; Women

Geographic Access: Banff National Park

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on item

Processing Status: Processed

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Untitled (Fishing and Hunting Scene)

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Artist: Unknown

Date: prior to 1962

Catalogue Number: UnK.08.10

Description: A rectangular shaped wall hanging with a red border. In the inside rectangular shape the scene is split in half with a brown stitched line. On the right side is two figures, one is spearing a fish and the other is fishing. Above the figures on the left is a caribou and just to the right is a smalle…

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Untitled (Fishing and Hunting Scene)

Date: prior to 1962

Dimensions: 50.0 x 78.9 cm

Description: A rectangular shaped wall hanging with a red border. In the inside rectangular shape the scene is split in half with a brown stitched line. On the right side is two figures, one is spearing a fish and the other is fishing. Above the figures on the left is a caribou and just to the right is a smaller animal perhaps a dog. On the left side there is a figure on a sleigh being pulled by dogs. Beside the dog is another figure walking. Along the bottom of the left side there is a man, woman and a child looking at the fish that they caught with a spear. The upper left corner includes two caribou. All the figures and animals are made out of skin cut out shapes with the exception of one fish.

Subject: activity; fishing; hunting; figure; male; female; child; animal; fish; caribou

Credit: Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988

Catalogue Number: UnK.08.10

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Women and Children with Dogs

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Artist: Unknown

Date: prior to 1962

Catalogue Number: UnK.08.09

Description: A rectangular shaped wall hanging with a red border. The outer edge and the border between the red and the light yellow background is stitched with criss cross and straight stitches. Inside the light yellow background are women and children with dogs. The scene is set up in three tears. Along the u…

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Women and Children with Dogs

Date: prior to 1962

Dimensions: 57.5 x 80.0 cm

Description: A rectangular shaped wall hanging with a red border. The outer edge and the border between the red and the light yellow background is stitched with criss cross and straight stitches. Inside the light yellow background are women and children with dogs. The scene is set up in three tears. Along the upper section on the left are two dogs, in the center there is a male, female and a child. On the far right is a teepee. The middle section includes a couple of dogs and a female with a child on her back. The bottom section showes two more dogs on the left, a male figure in the center and a small animal on the far right is being attacked by four birds. All of the figures and most of the animals are made from skin cut out shapes and are stitched on and detailed with black, yellow, blue, red and a light pink fiber thread. The outside red border is made up of six pieces that are attached to create the full border.

Subject: figure; male; female; child; animals; dogs; birds; caribou; architecture; teepee

Credit: Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988

Catalogue Number: UnK.08.09

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