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Eskimo Sea Dreams
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- Date
- 1960
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- NeP.04.01
- Description
- Background is blue green variegated light and dark. On this are various black shapes of men and animals. The top part of the picture has 4 men in a boat, 2 with oars, one casting a spear which is touching the head of a walrus, there are 2 walrus heads. A long curving line runs along the picture,…
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- Title
- Eskimo Sea Dreams
- Date
- 1960
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 49.5 x 60.5 cm
- Description
- Background is blue green variegated light and dark. On this are various black shapes of men and animals. The top part of the picture has 4 men in a boat, 2 with oars, one casting a spear which is touching the head of a walrus, there are 2 walrus heads. A long curving line runs along the picture, below this image is another scene. An animal/man with horns, holding a spear and horns is facing another animal/man, behind them a small bird. They are all standing on a large, black whale. brc artist's carver's chop in red and Dorset chop in black.
- Subject
- activity, hunting
- fishing
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- NeP.04.01
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- Date
- 1965
- Material
- plastic; metal; mesh
- Catalogue Number
- 104.18.1033
- Description
- Fishing net with green plastic handle and metal base. Handle marked “Made in USA 4000Y.”
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- Title
- Fishing Net
- Date
- 1965
- Material
- plastic; metal; mesh
- Dimensions
- 27 x 54 cm
- Description
- Fishing net with green plastic handle and metal base. Handle marked “Made in USA 4000Y.”
- Credit
- Gift of Evelyn Crosby, Banff, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- 104.18.1033
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- Date
- 1960 – 1970
- Material
- wood; antler; hair; feather; skin; sinew
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0044
- Description
- Fishing spear made from two prongs of an antler attached to wooden stick handle with a strip of rawhide. Handle completely wrapped with wide buckskin strips and three bands of red brown fur, one at each end and in middle. Three groups of short white feathers hang from underside of handle. Two small…
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- Title
- Fishing Spear
- Date
- 1960 – 1970
- Material
- wood; antler; hair; feather; skin; sinew
- Dimensions
- 7.5 x 7.5 x 47.0 cm
- Description
- Fishing spear made from two prongs of an antler attached to wooden stick handle with a strip of rawhide. Handle completely wrapped with wide buckskin strips and three bands of red brown fur, one at each end and in middle. Three groups of short white feathers hang from underside of handle. Two small barbs of antler tied tightly to middle of prongs with sinew.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- fishing
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0044
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