Calumet Fragment
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- Date
- 1972
- Material
- stone
- Catalogue Number
- 109.02.3047
- Description
- Brown and black carved pipe bowl. There are two notes that accompany this object, both with CRW writing. One note on a brown envelope: “Doug Light These belong to Joe Abraham of Big Horn. They are very old - perhaps before real pipes - belonged to his great grandmother - the face in the rock is…
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- Title
- Calumet Fragment
- Date
- 1972
- Material
- stone
- Dimensions
- 5.5 x 3.0 x 7.0 cm
- Description
- Brown and black carved pipe bowl. There are two notes that accompany this object, both with CRW writing. One note on a brown envelope: “Doug Light These belong to Joe Abraham of Big Horn. They are very old - perhaps before real pipes - belonged to his great grandmother - the face in the rock is also unusual - the nose fell off & they tried to glue it on - Joe would like to know the value of it. Catharine Whyte Banff.” Inside this evelope are some other slips of paper: a blue “Glenbow-Alberta Institute Routing Slip” to “JOHN HELLSON CARDSTON, ALTA 252-1946”, and two yellow “Alberta Stoney Indian Hand Crafts” tags with “Joe Abraham very old - pipe - very old - when no pipes at all - Laurier Hunter” and “Joe Abraham June 26 ‘72 very old don’t know history nose fell off tried to glue it.”
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 109.02.3047
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- Date
- 1963 – 1967
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.0026
- Description
- A wood carving of a chain with fourteen large links hanging from a carving hook at the top, with an open sided tall box at the end containing a carved wooden ball. No joints show in the wood so that it was obviously carved from a single piece of wood.
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- Title
- Whimsy
- Date
- 1963 – 1967
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 98.3 x 4.0 x 4.1 cm
- Description
- A wood carving of a chain with fourteen large links hanging from a carving hook at the top, with an open sided tall box at the end containing a carved wooden ball. No joints show in the wood so that it was obviously carved from a single piece of wood.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- craft
- carving
- Laurier Hunter
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.0026
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