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- Date
- 1910 – 1920
- Material
- skin; fibre; paper; glass; moss
- Catalogue Number
- 108.05.0001 a,b
- Description
- A very soft white (buckskin?) mossbag (a) with a small buckskin doll inside (b). a) A mossbag that laces down the entire front with a flap at the back. The bag is decorated with three diagonal stripes of orange, blue and purple beads on each side. The bag is lined with paper and fabric and filled…
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- Title
- Doll
- Date
- 1910 – 1920
- Material
- skin; fibre; paper; glass; moss
- Dimensions
- 60.0 (a); 24.0 (b) x 14.0 (a); 6.1 (b) x 15.0 (a); 0.5 (b) cm
- Description
- A very soft white (buckskin?) mossbag (a) with a small buckskin doll inside (b). a) A mossbag that laces down the entire front with a flap at the back. The bag is decorated with three diagonal stripes of orange, blue and purple beads on each side. The bag is lined with paper and fabric and filled with dried moss.b) A small stuffed doll of buckskin with a bonnet on its head. The bonnet trim and simple facial features are beaded with blue and black beads.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 108.05.0001 a,b
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- Date
- 1910 – 1935
- Material
- skin; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 104.33.0004
- Description
- A round drum of rawhide stretched over a wooden hoop frame. Leather strips are laced through holes at the edge of the skin and pulled tightly across the back to form six spokes of leather which are woven around with another thong at the centre to tighten them even more. A thong loop wrist strap i…
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- Title
- Drum
- Date
- 1910 – 1935
- Material
- skin; wood
- Dimensions
- 6.5 cm
- Description
- A round drum of rawhide stretched over a wooden hoop frame. Leather strips are laced through holes at the edge of the skin and pulled tightly across the back to form six spokes of leather which are woven around with another thong at the centre to tighten them even more. A thong loop wrist strap is tied around one spoke. There is slight residue of red paint on the hide’s surface. The letters “EEB BNN” are written in pencil on the back of the drum.
- Subject
- music
- ceremonial
- Indigenous, Stoney
- crafts
- painting
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.33.0004
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- Date
- prior to 1930
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 108.01.0001 a-d
- Description
- Two pairs of Stoney First Nation gaming sticks carved smoothly to taper and flatten at the ends. At one time each stick was painted with red ochre. There is a design carved and burned on one side of each pair. a,b) Cross inside a rectangle at the centre and at each end.c,d) Four parallel lines at…
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- Title
- Game Stick
- Date
- prior to 1930
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 1.5 x 3.7 x 29.5 cm
- Description
- Two pairs of Stoney First Nation gaming sticks carved smoothly to taper and flatten at the ends. At one time each stick was painted with red ochre. There is a design carved and burned on one side of each pair. a,b) Cross inside a rectangle at the centre and at each end.c,d) Four parallel lines at the centre and at each end.
- Subject
- Indigenous, Stoney
- games
- crafts
- carving
- toys
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 108.01.0001 a-d
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Tumpline Strap, Carrying
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact106.06.0006
- Date
- prior to 1930
- Material
- hair, horse; hair, sheep
- Catalogue Number
- 106.06.0006
- Description
- A narrow black and white flat woven rope becoming all black at one end and all white at the other. There is a half brown and half white wider piece of woven rope at the centre with a slit between the brown and white colours.
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- Title
- Tumpline Strap, Carrying
- Date
- prior to 1930
- Material
- hair, horse; hair, sheep
- Dimensions
- 237.0 cm
- Description
- A narrow black and white flat woven rope becoming all black at one end and all white at the other. There is a half brown and half white wider piece of woven rope at the centre with a slit between the brown and white colours.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 106.06.0006
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War Bonnet Headdress
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact103.09.3009
- Date
- c. 1920
- Material
- feathers; fibre; glass; hair
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.3009
- Description
- Loom-beaded white browband with green, orange, and dark red diagonal stripes. Light eagle feathers with dark tips and white down attached to tips. Feathers wrapped with green and yellow yarn at base. Purple and red ribbon streamers and ermine at each end of browband. Tag: "Silas Abraham. war bonn…
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- Title
- War Bonnet Headdress
- Date
- c. 1920
- Material
- feathers; fibre; glass; hair
- Description
- Loom-beaded white browband with green, orange, and dark red diagonal stripes. Light eagle feathers with dark tips and white down attached to tips. Feathers wrapped with green and yellow yarn at base. Purple and red ribbon streamers and ermine at each end of browband. Tag: "Silas Abraham. war bonnet and old eagle hat. Belongs to CRW"
- Subject
- Indigenous, Stoney
- crafts
- beadwork
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.3009
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War Bonnet Headdress
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact103.09.3022
- Date
- prior to 1930
- Material
- feathers; skin; hair; fibre; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.3022
- Description
- Reddish orange and dark blue loom beaded band, sewn to hide, with orange beaded loops as hanging trim. Buckskin and green beaded feather streamers at each end of browband. Dark feathers, some striped, with dyed orange wavy hair (wool?) attached to tips. Yellow down bases with pink wrappings. Brow…
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- Title
- War Bonnet Headdress
- Date
- prior to 1930
- Material
- feathers; skin; hair; fibre; glass
- Description
- Reddish orange and dark blue loom beaded band, sewn to hide, with orange beaded loops as hanging trim. Buckskin and green beaded feather streamers at each end of browband. Dark feathers, some striped, with dyed orange wavy hair (wool?) attached to tips. Yellow down bases with pink wrappings. Brown felt skullcap.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.3022
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