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Bowl

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.20.0581

Date: 1925 – 1970

Material: wood; metal

Catalogue Number: 104.20.0581

Description: A small wooden bowl lined with silver, and a silver collar around its foot, lathe turned wood with flaring lip, straight sides, and sharp shoulder leading to circular foot. Very thin silver has been pressed in to line interior and folded over the lip, leaving creases along the inner upright sides o…

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Title: Bowl

Date: 1925 – 1970

Material: wood; metal

Dimensions: 4.2 x 9.1 cm

Description: A small wooden bowl lined with silver, and a silver collar around its foot, lathe turned wood with flaring lip, straight sides, and sharp shoulder leading to circular foot. Very thin silver has been pressed in to line interior and folded over the lip, leaving creases along the inner upright sides of the bowl. Collar which fits around foot is thin silver ring with a single row of gadrooming at bottom supporting a series of tiny silver robed figures standing around its circumference. Turning spiral can be seen on bottom of foot.

Subject: Whyte home; travel; collectable; households; decorative; souvenir; Nepal

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 104.20.0581

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Fallen giants : a history of Himalayan mountaineering from the age of empire to the age of extremes

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14842

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2008

Author: Isserman, Maurice

Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press

Call Number: DS485 I87

Author: Isserman, Maurice

Responsibility: Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver with maps and peak sketches by Dee Molenaar

Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press

Published Date: 2008

Physical Description: xii, 579 p. : ill.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Himalaya Mountains; Nepal; Mountaineering

ISBN: 9780300164206

Accession Number: AC609

Call Number: DS485 I87

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Shoulder Bag

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact103.08.1143

Date: 2008

Material: fabric; plastic; metal

Catalogue Number: 103.08.1143

Description: A small bag from Nepal, woven on the back, and woven and embroidered on the front, with a multi-coloured corded strap (135.0cm) sewn onto the side of the bag, extending from the fringed bottom 4.0cm suspended from a blue plastic bead, to an over-the-shoulder cord. The front part is backed by a blac…

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Title: Shoulder Bag

Date: 2008

Material: fabric; plastic; metal

Dimensions: 15.5 x 19.0 cm

Description: A small bag from Nepal, woven on the back, and woven and embroidered on the front, with a multi-coloured corded strap (135.0cm) sewn onto the side of the bag, extending from the fringed bottom 4.0cm suspended from a blue plastic bead, to an over-the-shoulder cord. The front part is backed by a black muslin cotton piece that forms a separate compartment. There is a plastic and metal black zipper (15.0cm) on the top portion of the bag (one compartment) and the same kind and size of zipper lower down (5.0cm) opening onto a separate compartment. The bottom front of the bag 13.5x15.0cm wide) is gold satin with a circular embroidered design; the top part (5.0x15.0cm wide) is a multi-coloured woven design the same as the entire back of the bag. The paper price tag is attached by a piece of clear plastic; it reads “TEN THOUSAND VILLAGES” in red lettering and “ MADE IN/FABRIQUE DU NEPAL/NEPAL 5900165” in black lettering and the barcode underneath.