topic:"Owls" found 5 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Description: A carved wooden owl sitting on a very rough half-round section of log. The owl is painted dark brown with feather texture on wings, an orange face and breast. The owl has glass eyes. The side of the base is marked with a maker’s mark, “HAL” with letters joined together, and “Bieler 67” in red.

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Title: Bird Figurine

Date: 1967 – 1967

Material: wood

Dimensions: 10.4; 5.0 (base) x 4.3; 10.0 (base) x 4.8; 9.0 (base) cm

Description: A carved wooden owl sitting on a very rough half-round section of log. The owl is painted dark brown with feather texture on wings, an orange face and breast. The owl has glass eyes. The side of the base is marked with a maker’s mark, “HAL” with letters joined together, and “Bieler 67” in red.

Subject: households; animals, birds; birds, owls; crafts; carving; Hal Bieler

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 107.02.0001

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Hayloft hideaway

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Medium: Library - Periodical

Author: Kluckner, Michael

Call Number: P

Author: Kluckner, Michael

Physical Description: p.76-82 : ill

Medium: Library - Periodical

Subjects: Owls

Notes: In Canadian Geographic, vol. 122, no. 5 (Sep-Oct 2002)

Call Number: P

Collection: Archives Library

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Kananaskis Country's silent hunter equipped for winter

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Medium: Library - Periodical

Call Number: P

Physical Description: p.1

Medium: Library - Periodical

Subjects: Owls

Notes: In Kananaskis Country Explorer, winter 1989-90

Call Number: P

Collection: Archives Library

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Whimsey

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Date: 1930 – 1950

Material: bone; glass; wood

Catalogue Number: 107.02.0016

Description: A bison vertebra painted to resemble an owl's face - grey (taupe) with brown mottled feather texture on front. A yellow glass eye has been placed on each side 'wing' of the vertebra and outlined with a black circle. The central projecting knob is painted black to represent a beak, and long black …

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Title: Whimsey

Date: 1930 – 1950

Material: bone; glass; wood

Dimensions: 14.0 x 12.0 x 23.5 cm

Description: A bison vertebra painted to resemble an owl's face - grey (taupe) with brown mottled feather texture on front. A yellow glass eye has been placed on each side 'wing' of the vertebra and outlined with a black circle. The central projecting knob is painted black to represent a beak, and long black feather eyebrows are painted along the edge of the bone at the top over the eyes. The bone is affixed to a kidney-shaped piece of varnished wood by two screws through the bottom. The bottom is marked “BNN.”

Subject: households; Blackfoot; Blood; crafts; animals, birds; birds, owls; Indigenous

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 107.02.0016

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Woodpeckers, Grouse, Owls, Swallows, Ducks, and Geese

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Part Of: Douglas Leighton fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of photographs of Bird from British Columbia and Alberta. Some of the birds include oyster catcher, robin, osprey and different types of woodpeckers, flycatchers, grouse, owls, swallows, geese, songbirds, ducks, and corvids.

Date Range: 1976 - 1984; 1989 - 1993; 1995 - 1999

Reference Code: V222 / II / C / 1 / NS - 1 to 167

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Transparency

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Part Of: Douglas Leighton fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M133; V222

Series: V222 / II : Animals

Sous-Fonds: V222

Sub-Series: V222 / II / C : Birds

Accession Number: 2020.24

Reference Code: V222 / II / C / 1 / NS - 1 to 167

GMD: Photograph; Transparency

Date Range: 1976 - 1984; 1989 - 1993; 1995 - 1999

Physical Description: 167 photographs : col. slides ; 35 mm

Scope & Content: File consists of photographs of Bird from British Columbia and Alberta. Some of the birds include oyster catcher, robin, osprey and different types of woodpeckers, flycatchers, grouse, owls, swallows, geese, songbirds, ducks, and corvids.

Name Access: Leighton, Douglas

Subject Access: Birds; Wildlife; Ducks; Owls; Geese

Geographic Access: Banff National Park; Invermere, BC; Nelson, BC; Victoria, BC; Salmon Arm, BC; Vancouver, BC; Cypress Hills Provincial Park; Calgary, Alberta; Waterton National Park; Medicine Hat, Alberta; Pentitcon, BC; Okanagan Falls, BC; Pincher Creek, Alberta; Creston, BC; Grand Forks, BC; Cranbrook, BC; Vaseaux Lake, BC; Queen Charlotte Islands, BC; Haida Gwaii, BC