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Date
1850 – 1910
Material
horn; skin
Catalogue Number
104.10.0029
Description
Very old dried and cracked bison? horn with tip broken off to leave small hole. Strap of buckskin thong tied around at tip and attached to another thong tied around at open broad end of horn.
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Title
Powder Horn
Date
1850 – 1910
Material
horn; skin
Dimensions
5.7 x 4.3 x 21.0 cm
Description
Very old dried and cracked bison? horn with tip broken off to leave small hole. Strap of buckskin thong tied around at tip and attached to another thong tied around at open broad end of horn.
Subject
Indigenous
hunting
Silas Abraham
Lake Abraham
Kootenay Plains
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
104.10.0029
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West End of Abraham Lake

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Artist
Les Graff (1936 – , Canadian)
Date
2003 – 2003
Medium
oil on masonite board
Catalogue Number
GrL.01.31
Description
An oil sketch of a mountain landscape. The primary colours used are green, yellow, blue, white and beige. The centre of the piece is dominated by a yellow and green land mass, below which are two beige sections. On the bottom left there is a blue sections representing the lake and on the bottom rig…
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Artist
Les Graff (1936 – , Canadian)
Title
West End of Abraham Lake
Date
2003 – 2003
Medium
oil on masonite board
Dimensions
35.6 x 45.7 cm
Description
An oil sketch of a mountain landscape. The primary colours used are green, yellow, blue, white and beige. The centre of the piece is dominated by a yellow and green land mass, below which are two beige sections. On the bottom left there is a blue sections representing the lake and on the bottom right is a white section. The artist’s signature is in the brhc in beige paint. Au verso, written in black ink in the tlhc, “47/W”.
Subject
landscape
lake
Lake Abraham
mountain
Credit
Gift of Les Graff, Bashaw, 2007
Catalogue Number
GrL.01.31
Images
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