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- Date
- prior to 1950
- Material
- skin
- Catalogue Number
- 104.33.0001
- Description
- A drum made of rawhide stretched over a square frame and held by lacing across the back. The hide is dyed blue with a narrow red border and a red four pointed star at the middle with a blue square at the centre of the star.
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- Title
- Drum
- Date
- prior to 1950
- Material
- skin
- Dimensions
- 36.0 x 0.6 x 32.0 cm
- Description
- A drum made of rawhide stretched over a square frame and held by lacing across the back. The hide is dyed blue with a narrow red border and a red four pointed star at the middle with a blue square at the centre of the star.
- Subject
- music
- ceremonial
- Indigenous, Stoney
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.33.0001
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- Date
- prior to 1950
- Material
- skin; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 104.33.0002
- Description
- A drum made of hide stretched over a round wooden frame and laced through holes pierced in the wood at the side. The ends of the lacing thongs are tied and hanging at each side. The drum has a natural brownish-grey colour.
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- Title
- Drum
- Date
- prior to 1950
- Material
- skin; wood
- Dimensions
- 6.5 cm
- Description
- A drum made of hide stretched over a round wooden frame and laced through holes pierced in the wood at the side. The ends of the lacing thongs are tied and hanging at each side. The drum has a natural brownish-grey colour.
- Subject
- music
- ceremonial
- Indigenous, Stoney
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.33.0002
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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 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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