topic:"Dancing" found 6 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Description: Colour: brown, black, turquoise, orange on white. A single figure in ceremonial dress whirls two turquoise blue hoops round his wrists. The black and white feathers of his headdress and tail are tipped with orange.

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Artist: Gerald Tailfeathers (1925 – 1975, Canadian)

Title: Ceremonial Dancer

Date: 1967

Medium: watercolour, ink on paper

Dimensions: 17.6 x 22.8 cm

Description: Colour: brown, black, turquoise, orange on white. A single figure in ceremonial dress whirls two turquoise blue hoops round his wrists. The black and white feathers of his headdress and tail are tipped with orange.

Subject: figure, male; activity, dancing

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1970

Catalogue Number: TaG.05.01

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Tobacco dance and Sundance, Blackfoot and Stoney Nakoda people

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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

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

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

Category: Family and personal life; Cultural pluralism; Indigenous Peoples

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1916 – 1927

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.130

Description: Rough sketch of two dancers.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1916 – 1927

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 15.5 x 9.6 cm

Description: Rough sketch of two dancers.

Subject: dancers; dancing

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.130

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: ink; watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.731

Description: A group of children signing together in a background while a lady plays a grand piano in the foreground. There are lines extending from the piano to emphasis music being played, and these lines direct the viewers attention to a little stick figure dancing on the ground to the right of the piano. ve…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1930

Medium: ink; watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 10.0 x 15.0 cm

Description: A group of children signing together in a background while a lady plays a grand piano in the foreground. There are lines extending from the piano to emphasis music being played, and these lines direct the viewers attention to a little stick figure dancing on the ground to the right of the piano. verso: in the TRC “Concord November 1930”

Subject: woman; children; grand piano; music; singing; stick figure; dancing

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.731

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1916 – 1966

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.751

Description: A quick sketch - has a cartoon quality to it - of performers doing their act on stage, with a orchestra playing music in the orchestra pit. Above the performers there are three small drawings referencing activities to do in Banff: near the TLC of drawing is one about the theatre “LUX THEATRE”, in t…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1916 – 1966

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 21.0 x 23.3 cm

Description: A quick sketch - has a cartoon quality to it - of performers doing their act on stage, with a orchestra playing music in the orchestra pit. Above the performers there are three small drawings referencing activities to do in Banff: near the TLC of drawing is one about the theatre “LUX THEATRE”, in the middle near the top edge of drawing a boat with people “TO ENJOY BANFF GO ON THE RIVER,” and near the TRC of the drawing a vehicle “BREWSTER TRANSPORT.”