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Calgary cavalcade : from fort to fortune

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1958
Author
MacEwan, Grant
Publisher
Edmonton : Institute of Applied Art
Call Number
08.2 M15c
Author
MacEwan, Grant
Publisher
Edmonton : Institute of Applied Art
Published Date
1958
Physical Description
x, 246 pages, illustrations
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Bow River
Calgary, Alberta
Calgary Stampede
McDougall, John
Chief Crowfoot
Notes
Author's bio taped into front cover
Accession Number
7504
Call Number
08.2 M15c
Collection
Archives Library
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Date
1850 – 1925
Material
wood; metal; skin; glass
Catalogue Number
104.49.0004
Description
Very narrow thick steel blade flattened and flaring to curved edge with square hole at back for handle, blade painted yellow ochre colour. Handle seems a much newer commercial handle which has been cut off at the end and shaved to fit into hatchet head with a wooden wedge driven in to tighten. Han…
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Title
Tomahawk Ax
Date
1850 – 1925
Material
wood; metal; skin; glass
Dimensions
3.2 x 13.5 x 37.0 cm
Description
Very narrow thick steel blade flattened and flaring to curved edge with square hole at back for handle, blade painted yellow ochre colour. Handle seems a much newer commercial handle which has been cut off at the end and shaved to fit into hatchet head with a wooden wedge driven in to tighten. Handle wrapped at middle with loose fringed buckskin band, 11 cm, which is completely covered with a background of medium blue beads containing three bars of green beads outlined with dark blue beads. Bottom of handle wrapped with a wide fringed band of buckskin, 14 cm , sewn to fit along its length with black thread. Thong tied around top with long strip of untanned hide with white hairy surface.
Subject
Indigenous
warfare
hunting
beadwork
Beaver
Enos Hunter
John Chiniki
Chief Crowfoot
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
104.49.0004
Images
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