topic:"Blackfoot" found 8 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Description: Large beaded belt, orange background with blue and white hourglass pattern and yellow and blue steps. Skin tabs and ties at ends, cotton backing.

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Title: Beaded Belt

Date: 1940 – 1960

Material: skin; glass; fibre

Dimensions: 7.0 x 106.0 cm

Description: Large beaded belt, orange background with blue and white hourglass pattern and yellow and blue steps. Skin tabs and ties at ends, cotton backing.

Subject: Indigenous, Blackfoot; regalia; beadwork; Whyte family

Credit: Gift of Harold C. Whyte, Penticton, 2002

Catalogue Number: 103.07.1088

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Beaded Dress

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Date: 1940

Material: skin, deer; shell, cowrie

Catalogue Number: 103.05.0006

Description: A girl's deerskin dress fringed at the bottom of sleeves and at the hem. The dress is decorated with widely spaced horizontal rows of cowrie shells across the yoke and extending half way down the sleeves. There is a single row of shells at the hem.

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Title: Beaded Dress

Date: 1940

Material: skin, deer; shell, cowrie

Dimensions: 87.0 (shoulders) x 100.0 cm

Description: A girl's deerskin dress fringed at the bottom of sleeves and at the hem. The dress is decorated with widely spaced horizontal rows of cowrie shells across the yoke and extending half way down the sleeves. There is a single row of shells at the hem.

Subject: Indigenous; Plains; regalia; Banff; Indian Days; decorative; Blackfoot

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 103.05.0006

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Event in Southern Alberta

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of photographs from an event in southern Alberta, possibly on the Kainai (Blood) reserve. Includes photographs of a stage with microphones, flags, individuals in headresses and tipis.

Date Range: 1945-1950

Reference Code: V683 / III / B / NS - 1689 to 1693

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Transparency; Photograph

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M36; V683; S37

Series: V683 / III

Sous-Fonds: V683

Sub-Series: V683 / III / B : Peter and Catharine Whyte Transparencies

Accession Number: 3069

Reference Code: V683 / III / B / NS - 1689 to 1693

GMD: Transparency; Photograph

Parallel Title: Douglas Bader? Kainai Chieftainship? 1945-50

Other Title Info: Parallel title is original title

Date Range: 1945-1950

Physical Description: 5 photographs : col. transparencies ; 35 mm

Scope & Content: File consists of photographs from an event in southern Alberta, possibly on the Kainai (Blood) reserve. Includes photographs of a stage with microphones, flags, individuals in headresses and tipis.

Subject Access: Indigenous Peoples; First Nations; Kainai; Blackfoot; Events

Geographic Access: Alberta

Related Material: See item level descriptions

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Gauntlet Gloves

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Date: 1920 – 1930

Material: skin; glass; fibre

Catalogue Number: 103.07.0100 a,b

Description: A pair of high gauntleted buckskin gloves. Gloves cut from single piece of leather, with insets on fingers and thumb. Thick fell where gauntlet is attached to glove, and fringe along outside. On back of glove is a leaf like pattern in vermilion and charcoal edged by brass coloured beads. On back o…

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Title: Gauntlet Gloves

Date: 1920 – 1930

Material: skin; glass; fibre

Dimensions: 22.5 x 36.5 cm

Description: A pair of high gauntleted buckskin gloves. Gloves cut from single piece of leather, with insets on fingers and thumb. Thick fell where gauntlet is attached to glove, and fringe along outside. On back of glove is a leaf like pattern in vermilion and charcoal edged by brass coloured beads. On back of gauntlet is a geometrical pattern of leaves in red and blue bordered by white, emerging from a central "diamond" of charcoal and gold-silver and green leaves, bordered by white.

Subject: Indigenous; beadwork; regalia; Blackfoot

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

Catalogue Number: 103.07.0100 a,b

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Gun Case

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Date: 1920 – 1930

Material: skin, deer; fibre; glass

Catalogue Number: 104.10.0004

Description: A deerskin sheath with a canvas backing made to hold a rifle. The case has bands of beadwork at the top and bottom, each about 1/5 of length of the case. The beadwork has a white beaded background with a design of two triangles joined at tips in yellows, red and blue. There is a leather fringe a…

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Title: Gun Case

Date: 1920 – 1930

Material: skin, deer; fibre; glass

Dimensions: 104.0 cm

Description: A deerskin sheath with a canvas backing made to hold a rifle. The case has bands of beadwork at the top and bottom, each about 1/5 of length of the case. The beadwork has a white beaded background with a design of two triangles joined at tips in yellows, red and blue. There is a leather fringe along the side of the beadwork and around the top of the case.

Subject: Indigenous, Blackfoot; sports; hunting; crafts; decorative; beadwork; regalia; tourism; trading; Philip Moore

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 104.10.0004

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Indigenous portraits Banff Indian Days

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of photographs of Indigenous individuals at Banff Indian Days includes adults and children, some in traditional regalia.

Date Range: 1945-1950

Reference Code: V683 / III / B / NS - 1741 to 1759

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Transparency; Photograph

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M36; V683; S37

Series: V683 / III

Sous-Fonds: V683

Sub-Series: V683 / III / B : Peter and Catharine Whyte Transparencies

Accession Number: 3069

Reference Code: V683 / III / B / NS - 1741 to 1759

GMD: Transparency; Photograph

Parallel Title: Indian heads first year on bridge Blackfeet 1945-1950

Date Range: 1945-1950

Physical Description: 19 photographs : col. transparencies ; 35 mm

Scope & Content: File consists of photographs of Indigenous individuals at Banff Indian Days includes adults and children, some in traditional regalia.

Name Access: Many Bears, Lyndon; McLean, Flora; Twoyoungmen, Jake; Wildman, Dan, Jr.; Bearspaw, David; Chiniquay, Georgie; Twin, William; Twoyoungmen, Sarah; Dixon, Lazarus; Wildman, Dan, Sr.

Subject Access: Banff Indian Days; Indigenous Peoples; First Nations; Stoney Nakoda; Blackfoot

Geographic Access: Alberta

Language: N/A

Related Material: See item level descriptions

Category: Indigenous Peoples

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Knife Sheath

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Date: 1920 – 1930

Material: skin; glass

Catalogue Number: 104.10.0006

Description: A simply shaped sheath for a knife with a leather strap to hang the sheath from a belt. The sheath is decorated with beadwork in a band along the top edge composed of blue, green, red, yellow and black crosses on white background. Another band of beadwork follows the rounded shape of the sheath …

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Title: Knife Sheath

Date: 1920 – 1930

Material: skin; glass

Dimensions: 12.0 x 29.0 cm

Description: A simply shaped sheath for a knife with a leather strap to hang the sheath from a belt. The sheath is decorated with beadwork in a band along the top edge composed of blue, green, red, yellow and black crosses on white background. Another band of beadwork follows the rounded shape of the sheath with a pattern of coloured diagonal stripes on a white background. There is an attached tie-shaped decorative flap of leather that has a beaded floral design at the centre and is trimmed with beads along the edges.