topic:"Cougar" found 3 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Description: A man's necklace made of cougar claws alternating with brass trade beads. This necklace would be tied around the neck with leather thongs.

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Title: Beaded Necklace

Date: 1880 – 1900

Material: claws, cougar; metal, brass; skin

Dimensions: 45.0 cm

Description: A man's necklace made of cougar claws alternating with brass trade beads. This necklace would be tied around the neck with leather thongs.

Subject: Indigenous; Stoney; animals, cougar; regalia

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 103.01.0008

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Beaded Necklace

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Date: 1973 – 1978

Material: glass; claw; fibre

Catalogue Number: 103.01.0088

Description: A necklace of a double strand of seed beads with five large cat (cougar ?) claws attached at front. The length is composed of blue and white beads strung on each strand with six blue beads, then five white, then six more blue, then the two strands joined together by a single white bead, with this p…

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Title: Beaded Necklace

Date: 1973 – 1978

Material: glass; claw; fibre

Dimensions: 42.5 cm

Description: A necklace of a double strand of seed beads with five large cat (cougar ?) claws attached at front. The length is composed of blue and white beads strung on each strand with six blue beads, then five white, then six more blue, then the two strands joined together by a single white bead, with this pattern of loops thus formed repeated along its length. The five claws are evenly spaced at the front with two of these beaded loops between each.

Subject: Indigenous; beadwork; accessories; animal; cougar; regalia

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

Catalogue Number: 103.01.0088

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Maude Woodworth postcard album, Banff Zoo, Lethbridge

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Part Of: Kidney family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of one album containing 35 black and white postcards and 1 colour postcard. Contents pertain to wildlife in the Rocky Mountains, including moose, bears, big horn sheep, buffalo, cougars, deer and elk, at least some of which were held in the Banff Zoo. File also contains images of Leth…

Date Range: [1909 - ca. 1920]

Reference Code: V324 / IV / A / PD - 1

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Album; Postcard

Part Of: Kidney family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M74 / V324

Series: V324 / IV : Family, friends and community records

Sous-Fonds: V324

Sub-Series: V324 / IV / A : 1886 - 1920

Accession Number: 2016.8581

Reference Code: V324 / IV / A / PD - 1

GMD: Album; Postcard

Responsibility: Many items produced by Byron Harmon

Date Range: [1909 - ca. 1920]

Physical Description: 1 album (36 photographs : b&w and col. ; 14 x 8.5 cm)

History / Biographical: The Banff Zoo operated as a tourist attraction from about 1905 until 1937, when it was shut down due to concerns about animal cruelty. While it was open, the Banff Zoo held monkeys, cougars, a polar bear named "Buddy" [acquired in 1907], two bear cubs from 1915 onwards, and various other wildlife.

Scope & Content: File consists of one album containing 35 black and white postcards and 1 colour postcard. Contents pertain to wildlife in the Rocky Mountains, including moose, bears, big horn sheep, buffalo, cougars, deer and elk, at least some of which were held in the Banff Zoo. File also contains images of Lethbridge [ca. 1909], Col. Cyril Childe [ca. 1920], Mt. Rundle, Niagara Canyon and other untitled views of the Canadian Rockies. One image depicting Lethbridge is dated 1909, stamped and annotated.

Notes: Most dates given are estimates provided by the Processing Archivist based on format and content of items; Numerous items appear to be missing; Inside cover of album reads: "Maud Woodworth from W.R. Lewis [?] ... 1909"

Name Access: Childe, Cyril; Harmon, Byron; Woodworth, Maude

Subject Access: Wildlife; Animals; Bear; Moose; Sheep; Buffalo; Cougar; Deer; Elk; Landscapes; Zoo; Banff Zoo; Tourism

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Banff National Park; Banff; Lethbridge; British Columbia; Niagara Canyon

Access Restrictions: Copyright restrictions may apply

Reproduction Restrictions: Copyright restrictions may apply

Language: English

Conservation: Item must be kept in separate storage from other albums due to its cloth/leather cover material

Category: Family and personal life; Environment

Biographical Source Notes: http://banff.ca/index.aspx?NID=480

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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