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- Date
- 1945 – 1946
- Material
- skin; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.1159
- Description
- Beaded women’s buckskin jacket with button front and front hip pockets. Fringe across chest and back, along sleeves, bottom of jacket and around edge of pockets. Buttons are hide covered. Floral beadwork on front and back yoke and pockets in blue, green, pink, yellow and red.
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- Title
- Beaded Jacket
- Date
- 1945 – 1946
- Material
- skin; glass
- Dimensions
- 51.0 x 79.0 cm
- Description
- Beaded women’s buckskin jacket with button front and front hip pockets. Fringe across chest and back, along sleeves, bottom of jacket and around edge of pockets. Buttons are hide covered. Floral beadwork on front and back yoke and pockets in blue, green, pink, yellow and red.
- Credit
- Gift of Marilyn Newell, Qualicum Beach, 2002
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.1159
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- Date
- 1950 – 1954
- Material
- skin; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.1160
- Description
- Men’s beaded elkskin jacket with front button closure, two front hip pockets and two front chest pockets. Fringe along jacket bottom, across front and back yokes, back of sleeves. Floral beadwork on pockets and across back yoke in blue, yellow, green and orange.
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- Title
- Beaded Jacket
- Date
- 1950 – 1954
- Material
- skin; glass
- Dimensions
- 68.0 x 83.0 cm
- Description
- Men’s beaded elkskin jacket with front button closure, two front hip pockets and two front chest pockets. Fringe along jacket bottom, across front and back yokes, back of sleeves. Floral beadwork on pockets and across back yoke in blue, yellow, green and orange.
- Credit
- Gift of Marilyn Newell, Qualicum Beach, 2002
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.1160
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- Date
- 1915
- Material
- skin, deer; glass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.1177
- Description
- An adult’s beaded buckskin jacket with leather tie front closing; appears to be Stoney beadwork; all beadwork done in the lazy stitch. Blue, green, and ochre beads, stitched in rows on breast front, beading of and blue and ochre on the shoulders and around the armholes, a rounded chevron-shaped des…
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- Title
- Beaded Jacket
- Date
- 1915
- Material
- skin, deer; glass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 51.0 x 65.0cm cm
- Description
- An adult’s beaded buckskin jacket with leather tie front closing; appears to be Stoney beadwork; all beadwork done in the lazy stitch. Blue, green, and ochre beads, stitched in rows on breast front, beading of and blue and ochre on the shoulders and around the armholes, a rounded chevron-shaped design (five rows) of alternating dark and light blue beads on the back ending with two light blue, dark blue and ochre, tails. The beadwork from the bottom rounded chevron-shaped pattern extends to the shoulders and down the arms meeting with two separate rows (of two) of blue and ochre beads. The cuffs and bottom of the jacket have cutouts on wide fringes and also have the regular narrow fringes. There are fringes around the armholes, down the sleeves and around the v-shaped beadwork design on the back. The jacket has no collar but has a strip of pinked thin leather sewn down, ending in a cutout beaded flap (13.0cm long) which is sewn on so that it hangs down like a small necktie when the jacket is closed. The jacket has ochre spots on the front and back and yellow spots on the sleeves. Measurement 148.0cm, across chest.
- Credit
- Gift of Eric C. Sharpless, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.1177
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- Date
- 1985
- Material
- skin, deer; glass; fibre;
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.1185
- Description
- A tanned, buckskin jacket with floral beadwork design. It appears to be Stoney beadwork because of the colour combinations. The jacket has beading on the shoulders and the the top front and has fringes below. The beading above across the back is of flowers with colours red, orange, beige, blue, whi…
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- Title
- Beaded Jacket
- Date
- 1985
- Material
- skin, deer; glass; fibre;
- Dimensions
- 52.0; with arms 143.0 x 81.0 cm
- Description
- A tanned, buckskin jacket with floral beadwork design. It appears to be Stoney beadwork because of the colour combinations. The jacket has beading on the shoulders and the the top front and has fringes below. The beading above across the back is of flowers with colours red, orange, beige, blue, white and red and leaves in colours of green and turquoise. The beaded butterflies on the front are (two on each side) red and blue wings surrounded by pink, and blue and orange wings surrounded by beige; all the antennae are blue. The collar is pinked and also has a strip of 1.0 pinked buckskin sewn onto it 1.50 cm from the edge. The jacket is closed by leather thongs for tying. There are two front pockets, with pinked edges. The pockets are beaded in red, yellow, blue, green and white in what seems to be a flower. There is a lining, extending 25.5 cm down from the collar, in red and white checked cotton with two horizontal lines of red hearts and flowers with green leaves. On viewer’s left there are two border strips of white and blue flowers on red with green leaves. The back of the collar is lined with maroon velvet.REF: 103.08.1148 In the pocket of the jacket at the time of cataloguing: a square (26.0cm) white linen handkerchief with a lace border. It has green embroidered shamrocks and stems plus seven (approx.0.50 cm) dots around the shamrocks.REF: 105.02.1182 In the pocket of the jacket at the time of cataloguing: a piece of paper (11.0x12.5cm wide) with Willie’s notes on it. One side is written in script with a black felt pen “2 Rolled oats 1 milk 3 cream 1 Butter Veg fruit oranges Veg Meat”, viewer’s left, printed “NEWSPAPER GRACE” a line underneath and then “CARD FOR ERLING”. On the opposite side written in script in blue ball point pen “Bread at Pop’s, Grace and Gladys slene (sic) cody”. There are scribbles over the writing.
- Credit
- Gift of Nicholas Morant, Banff, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.1185
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- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- skin; stone; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.3004
- Description
- Large shaped stone head attached to hide and fur wrapped wooden handle. Tag with CRW writing “Richard Kaquitts found it diggin grave at Morley,” another tag reads “Stone tomahawk head found by Richard Kaquitts.”
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- Title
- Tomahawk Ax
- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- skin; stone; wood
- Dimensions
- 5.0 x 22.0 x 46.0 cm
- Description
- Large shaped stone head attached to hide and fur wrapped wooden handle. Tag with CRW writing “Richard Kaquitts found it diggin grave at Morley,” another tag reads “Stone tomahawk head found by Richard Kaquitts.”
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.3004
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- Date
- 1970
- Material
- wood; feather; skin; hoof; stone
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.3010
- Description
- Flat, triangular stone lashed to a long wooden handle with hide. The handle, from commercial stock, is decorated with small animal and human footprints burnt into the wood. There are feathers attached to the handle with hide. The top of the tomahawk has a bunch of dew claws attached with hide.
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- Title
- Tomahawk Ax
- Date
- 1970
- Material
- wood; feather; skin; hoof; stone
- Dimensions
- 65.5 x 3.5 x 15.0 cm
- Description
- Flat, triangular stone lashed to a long wooden handle with hide. The handle, from commercial stock, is decorated with small animal and human footprints burnt into the wood. There are feathers attached to the handle with hide. The top of the tomahawk has a bunch of dew claws attached with hide.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.3010
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- Date
- 1875 – 1895
- Material
- wood; metal; skin; feather
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0004
- Description
- A ceremonial pipe tomahawk which can serve either function. The metal wedge-shaped blade is surmounted by a pipe bowl on a shaft of wood that is covered with leather with four vertical rows of brass tacks. There is a fur lined piece of leather, probably used as hand grip, around the centre. Att…
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- Title
- Tomahawk Ax
- Date
- 1875 – 1895
- Material
- wood; metal; skin; feather
- Dimensions
- 162.0 cm
- Description
- A ceremonial pipe tomahawk which can serve either function. The metal wedge-shaped blade is surmounted by a pipe bowl on a shaft of wood that is covered with leather with four vertical rows of brass tacks. There is a fur lined piece of leather, probably used as hand grip, around the centre. Attached to the end of the tomahawk is a beaded band with long fringe at the end. The band has a white beaded background and design of three yellow triangles with red bases and blue corners. Two feathers hang from beaded leather thongs attached to the axehead with a tuft of grey fur.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0004
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- Date
- prior to 1990
- Material
- stone; glass; wood; skin; fabric
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.1007
- Description
- A hatchet/tomahawk with a hand hewn stone head that has a wooden handle attached by a leather thong with zigzag edges. The leather thong attaches a head with a blade that has six rounded notches. The wooden handle is beaded in the middle with red and blue beads and has a fringe on both ends. The bo…
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- Title
- Tomahawk Ax
- Date
- prior to 1990
- Material
- stone; glass; wood; skin; fabric
- Dimensions
- 14.0 x 46.0 cm
- Description
- A hatchet/tomahawk with a hand hewn stone head that has a wooden handle attached by a leather thong with zigzag edges. The leather thong attaches a head with a blade that has six rounded notches. The wooden handle is beaded in the middle with red and blue beads and has a fringe on both ends. The bottom of the handle has very little blue and red beads and longer fringes.
- Subject
- Indigenous, Stoney
- souvenir
- Credit
- Gift of Unknown, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.1007
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