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Date
prior to 1970
Material
metal; wood
Catalogue Number
104.02.3001 a,b
Description
Two wooden handled brush hooks each with a slightly “S”-shaped blade held to the handle with roughly soldered metal straps.a) Sticky black tape on handle. Blade attached with two screws and square nuts. Tag attached with CRW writing: “For cutting willows belonged to Nat Hunter - Sept 12 (Viola po…
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Title
Brush Hook
Date
prior to 1970
Material
metal; wood
Dimensions
16.0 (a); 15.0 (b) x 104.0 (a); 103.0 (b) cm
Description
Two wooden handled brush hooks each with a slightly “S”-shaped blade held to the handle with roughly soldered metal straps.a) Sticky black tape on handle. Blade attached with two screws and square nuts. Tag attached with CRW writing: “For cutting willows belonged to Nat Hunter - Sept 12 (Viola pounded it.)”b) Very weathered handle, cracked, blackened where tape removed. Blade attached with one screw and square nut.
Subject
Indigenous, Stoney
Nat Hunter
Viola Hunter
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
104.02.3001 a,b
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Date
1940 – 1955
Material
skin; wood; metal
Catalogue Number
104.33.0016
Description
Large square hand drum with rawhide stretched across a carefully constructed wooden frame and nailed to bottom edge. Heavy wire stretched across back from the centre of each side of the frame with one piece of the wire wrapped with a leather thong and wrapped and tied about the middle with a large …
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Title
Hand Drum
Date
1940 – 1955
Material
skin; wood; metal
Dimensions
7.3 x 39.0 x 39.0 cm
Description
Large square hand drum with rawhide stretched across a carefully constructed wooden frame and nailed to bottom edge. Heavy wire stretched across back from the centre of each side of the frame with one piece of the wire wrapped with a leather thong and wrapped and tied about the middle with a large knot. Each corner triangle of drum face painted red. Pencil marks on face near one corner and near another corner on back of hide.
Subject
Indigenous, Stoney
ceremonial
Nat Hunter
Mrs. Tom Wesley
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
104.33.0016
Images
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This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.
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