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

Abstract: Pertains to the Battle at Belly River between Cree, Blackfeet Indigenous Peoples - descriptions of eye witness accounts and includes maps and photographs

Contents: Introduction The Last Great Indian Battle Other Accounts Summing Up Pictorial Representations of the Battle References Acknowledgements

Accession Number: 3069a

Call Number: 08.2 J62t PAM

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Lethbridge Historical Society website

Websites

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Beaded Moccasins

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Date: 1940 – 1950

Material: skin, deer; fibre, silk

Catalogue Number: 103.03.0010 a,b

Description: A pair of soft moccasins shaped to the foot and sewn around the sole. Each moccasin has an ankle flap with leather thongs for tying. They are decorated with very simple three and four petalled flowers and leaves embroidered on the instep with pink, red and blue silk thread.

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Title: Beaded Moccasins

Date: 1940 – 1950

Material: skin, deer; fibre, silk

Dimensions: 25.0 cm

Description: A pair of soft moccasins shaped to the foot and sewn around the sole. Each moccasin has an ankle flap with leather thongs for tying. They are decorated with very simple three and four petalled flowers and leaves embroidered on the instep with pink, red and blue silk thread.

Subject: Indigenous; Stoney; Cree; decorative; needlework; regalia

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 103.03.0010 a,b

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Beaded Vest

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Date: 1940 – 1960

Material: fibre; glass

Catalogue Number: 103.05.3026

Description: Black velvet vest with parallel machine sewn lines. The vest is lined with printed blue floral patterned cotton. The front of the vest is decorated with a floral motif in orange, red, green and yellow with red, blue and yellow buds and green leaves. The back of the vest is beaded with a man wear…

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Title: Beaded Vest

Date: 1940 – 1960

Material: fibre; glass

Dimensions: 54.5 x 62.2 cm

Description: Black velvet vest with parallel machine sewn lines. The vest is lined with printed blue floral patterned cotton. The front of the vest is decorated with a floral motif in orange, red, green and yellow with red, blue and yellow buds and green leaves. The back of the vest is beaded with a man wearing a headress of black and white feathers and a blue shirt with red and yellow beadstrips.

Subject: Indigenous, Rocky Boy Chippewa Cree; Flathead Reserve; regalia; beadwork

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

Catalogue Number: 103.05.3026

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Doll

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Date: 1960 – 1970

Material: skin; wood; glass; hair; feathers

Catalogue Number: 108.05.0089

Description: Small man wearing grey buckskins, red and yellow beads, feather headdress, and carved wooden face. Very plain buckskin outfit with fringes at shirt bottom, sides of leggings and across back shoulders. Yellow and red bead necklace, and trimming on clothing and moccasins. Unpainted wooden head has ca…

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Title: Doll

Date: 1960 – 1970

Material: skin; wood; glass; hair; feathers

Dimensions: 28.5 x 4.0 cm

Description: Small man wearing grey buckskins, red and yellow beads, feather headdress, and carved wooden face. Very plain buckskin outfit with fringes at shirt bottom, sides of leggings and across back shoulders. Yellow and red bead necklace, and trimming on clothing and moccasins. Unpainted wooden head has carved features with pursed lips, and extends to form torso under clothing. Six small feathers in band form headdress. Straight brown hair glued to head is cut off at shoulders. Hands are flat cut outs from buckskin, with black feather stitched to left hand. Armature of body seems to be wire.

Subject: Indigenous, Shoshone-Cree; Italian; playthings; children; Sarain Stump

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

Catalogue Number: 108.05.0089

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Jacket Fragment

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Date: 1940 – 1950

Material: skin; glass

Catalogue Number: 103.05.1154

Description: Rear shoulder panel or back yoke from jacket. Floral beadwork in red, blue, green, gold, brown, white, yellow and black.

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Title: Jacket Fragment

Date: 1940 – 1950

Material: skin; glass

Dimensions: 17.0 x 49.0 cm

Description: Rear shoulder panel or back yoke from jacket. Floral beadwork in red, blue, green, gold, brown, white, yellow and black.

Subject: Indigenous, B.C. Cree; beadwork; regalia; Whyte family

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

Catalogue Number: 103.05.1154

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Unknown

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: Item consists of a close-up of unknown individual dressed in regalia and holding a thin pole with eagle feathers tied to it, possibly on horseback.

Date Range: 1945-1950

Reference Code: V683 / III / B / NS - 1661

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Transparency; Photograph

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M36 / V683 / S37

Series: V683 / III : Peter and Catharine Whyte

Sous-Fonds: V683

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

Accession Number: 3069

Reference Code: V683 / III / B / NS - 1661

GMD: Transparency; Photograph

Date Range: 1945-1950

Physical Description: Photograph: 1 negative ; col.

Scope & Content: Item consists of a close-up of unknown individual dressed in regalia and holding a thin pole with eagle feathers tied to it, possibly on horseback.

Notes: Previously thought to be Joe Saddleback

Subject Access: Banff Indian Days; First Nations; Indigenous Peoples; Recognizing relations; Cree

Geographic Access: Alberta

Language: NA

Related Material: Recognizing Relations number RR 371

Title Source: This image is a part of the Recognizing Relations project, an archives initiative undertaken since 2014 to identify First Nations people in photographs held in the Whyte Museum Archives.