- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- fibre; glass; skin; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 104.04.3003
- Description
- Canvas case with fully beaded panels on both sides at each end. The open end of the case is decorated with a blue and orange triangle border and red, blue and green triangles on a white ground. Long fringe (28.0 cm), with wooden beads, is attached to the bottom edge. The muzzle end of the case is…
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- Title
- Gun Case
- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- fibre; glass; skin; wood
- Dimensions
- 16.0 x 89.5 cm
- Description
- Canvas case with fully beaded panels on both sides at each end. The open end of the case is decorated with a blue and orange triangle border and red, blue and green triangles on a white ground. Long fringe (28.0 cm), with wooden beads, is attached to the bottom edge. The muzzle end of the case is decorated with a blue triangle border, red and orange triangles, red diamonds and blue diamonds on a white ground. This design is not symmetrical. Long fringe (26.0 cm), with wooden beads, is attached along the bottom edge.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.04.3003
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- Date
- 1935 – 1945
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 104.10.0027
- Description
- A flat knife sheath of buckskin with beadwork on front in five different horizontal bands at top, light blue and dark blue diagonal stripes, white with pink vertical stripes, pink and blue diagonal stripes. A curved hanging arch of pink beads over plain buckskin at middle, bottom half completely co…
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- Title
- Knife Sheath
- Date
- 1935 – 1945
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 12.1 x 32.5 cm
- Description
- A flat knife sheath of buckskin with beadwork on front in five different horizontal bands at top, light blue and dark blue diagonal stripes, white with pink vertical stripes, pink and blue diagonal stripes. A curved hanging arch of pink beads over plain buckskin at middle, bottom half completely covered with white beads with blue and green band pattern. A canvas flap follows the curved edge of the sheath and is completely covered with light blue beadwork containing diagonal patterned stripes of green and purple with short fringe of buckskin along outer edge. Bead stitching shows on back side of flap; double slit cut into skin near top on back of sheath.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- hunting
- Paul Amos
- Three Buffalo Bull
- Norma Piper Pocaterra
- Johnny Bearspaw
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.10.0027
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