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- Date
- 1955 – 1965
- Material
- skin; hair; wood; feather
- Catalogue Number
- 104.33.0023
- Description
- Hand drum with round hoop frame covered with hide and brown-grey fur around outside with six long striped features hanging from a buckskin thong spaced evenly around the circumference. Drum head is a circle of hide laced around its edges into the middle of the hoop and painted with a red and blue b…
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- Title
- Bear Drum
- Date
- 1955 – 1965
- Material
- skin; hair; wood; feather
- Description
- Hand drum with round hoop frame covered with hide and brown-grey fur around outside with six long striped features hanging from a buckskin thong spaced evenly around the circumference. Drum head is a circle of hide laced around its edges into the middle of the hoop and painted with a red and blue band around the border with a pencil drawing of a bear's head at the centre. Handholds in the back formed of twisted hide in two loops attached to two strings of twisted hide stretched across the back, with an additional long strap of twisted hide for hanging.See narative.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- ceremonial
- dancing
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.33.0023
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Dancers at Standoff
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions56770
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Scope & Content
- Item consists of group of individuals dressed in regalia and dancing at Standoff
- Date Range
- 1955
- Reference Code
- V683 / III / B / NS - 2048
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Transparency
- Photograph
1 image
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- 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 - 2048
- Parallel Title
- 7/29/55 Standoff
- Other Title Info
- Parallel title is original title
- Date Range
- 1955
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. transparencies ; 35 mm
- Scope & Content
- Item consists of group of individuals dressed in regalia and dancing at Standoff
- Subject Access
- Indigenous Peoples
- First Nations
- Kainai
- Dancing
- Events
- Geographic Access
- Alberta
- Related Material
- See file level description
- Title Source
- Title is based on contents of item
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Dancers at Standoff
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions56772
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Scope & Content
- Item consists of group of people dancing in regalia, including possibly Frank Eagle Tail Feathers in centre back, with a crowd behind a fence in the background at Standoff
- Date Range
- 1955
- Reference Code
- V683 / III / B / NS - 2049
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Transparency
- Photograph
1 image
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- 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 - 2049
- Parallel Title
- 7/29/55 Standoff
- Other Title Info
- Parallel title is original title
- Date Range
- 1955
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. transparencies ; 35 mm
- Scope & Content
- Item consists of group of people dancing in regalia, including possibly Frank Eagle Tail Feathers in centre back, with a crowd behind a fence in the background at Standoff
- Subject Access
- Indigenous Peoples
- First Nations
- Kainai
- Dancing
- Events
- Geographic Access
- Alberta
- Related Material
- See file level description
- Title Source
- Title is based on contents of item
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Tobacco dance and Sundance, Blackfoot and Stoney Nakoda people
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions55001
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of photographs pertaining to a 1944 Tobacco Dance event at Beaver Lodge Camp near Gleichen, Alberta; a 1943 Sundance ceremony; an unidentified young Indigenous woman and Indigenous man [possibly Chief Sitting Bull?] standing by the Bow River; distant photographs of a moose in shallow …
- Date Range
- 1943-1944
- [ca.1950-1960]
- Reference Code
- LUX / I / E6 / PA - 107 to 192
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- LUX
- Series
- LUX / I / E : Collected material
- Sous-Fonds
- LUX / I : Norman Luxton sous-fonds
- Sub-Series
- LUX / I / E6 : Photographs : Stoney
- Accession Number
- LUX
- Reference Code
- LUX / I / E6 / PA - 107 to 192
- Date Range
- 1943-1944
- [ca.1950-1960]
- Physical Description
- 86 photographs : b&w prints ; 9 x 9 cm or smaller
- Scope & Content
- File consists of photographs pertaining to a 1944 Tobacco Dance event at Beaver Lodge Camp near Gleichen, Alberta; a 1943 Sundance ceremony; an unidentified young Indigenous woman and Indigenous man [possibly Chief Sitting Bull?] standing by the Bow River; distant photographs of a moose in shallow water; teepees [context unknown]; aerial views of Morley[?] or Gleichen[?]; and various unidentified Indigenous people, standing and on horseback.
- Notes
- Photographs LUX/I/E6/PA-107 to 120 are annotated on back sides with additional information/context pertaining to specific images.
- Name Access
- Hunter, John
- McLean, George
- Subject Access
- Indigenous Peoples
- Family and personal life
- Community events
- Communities
- Dancing
- Cultural pluralism
- Children
- Teepees
- Landscapes
- Land use
- Animals
- Dogs
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- Morley
- Gleichen
- Bow River
- Language
- English
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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