topic:"Religious" found 7 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Burial of Chief David Bearspaw

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1956

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.030

Description: Colour: primaries and secondaries on blue grey background. A circle of people fill the center of the canvas. In the foreground there are dogs and three crosses at lower left. Two thirds up in the distance is a mountain range and lake. Above is sky.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Burial of Chief David Bearspaw

Date: 1956

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 61.8 x 74.5 cm

Description: Colour: primaries and secondaries on blue grey background. A circle of people fill the center of the canvas. In the foreground there are dogs and three crosses at lower left. Two thirds up in the distance is a mountain range and lake. Above is sky.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; winter; figure; group; religious; funeral; Peter Whyte

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.030

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Calumet Fragment

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Date: prior to 1970

Material: stone

Catalogue Number: 109.02.3046

Description: Red-brown calumet bowl in the shape of a horse with the hole through the top of the horse’s head. Obvious repair across horse’s hind-quarters and the front legs are broken. The end where this section attaches to the stem is jagged and has putty or glue attached.See narrative

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Title: Calumet Fragment

Date: prior to 1970

Material: stone

Dimensions: 7.1 x 2.2 x 18.2 cm

Description: Red-brown calumet bowl in the shape of a horse with the hole through the top of the horse’s head. Obvious repair across horse’s hind-quarters and the front legs are broken. The end where this section attaches to the stem is jagged and has putty or glue attached.See narrative

Subject: Indigenous; ceremonial; religious; smoking; crafts; carving

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

Catalogue Number: 109.02.3046

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Funeral of Chief David Bearspaw

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1956

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.033

Description: Colour: multi colours on white. In the lower left corner is the backside of a sled pulled by two horses. There are figures sitting in the sled and walking beside it, also two dogs. Many figures are making their way from the right to the left of centre where there is a huge circle of figures. Ac…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Funeral of Chief David Bearspaw

Date: 1956

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 90.5 x 100.8 cm

Description: Colour: multi colours on white. In the lower left corner is the backside of a sled pulled by two horses. There are figures sitting in the sled and walking beside it, also two dogs. Many figures are making their way from the right to the left of centre where there is a huge circle of figures. Across the right side in front of a fence is a row of eleven sleds. The hills beyond meet the lake up centre and the far shore of blue mountains two thirds up. The sky is streaked grey.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; transportation; figure; group; religious

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.033

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Hairbag

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Date: prior to 1970

Material: glass; skin

Catalogue Number: 109.02.3037

Description: Replica of a hairbag (could be displayed Re: Corleigh Belton July 2013). Small bag, stiched shut along the top edge, with both sides fully beaded. One side has a pattern of green and white squares with a blue and black triangle border, the other side has a multicoloured stepped diamond on a blue b…

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Title: Hairbag

Date: prior to 1970

Material: glass; skin

Dimensions: 9.5 x 16.3 cm

Description: Replica of a hairbag (could be displayed Re: Corleigh Belton July 2013). Small bag, stiched shut along the top edge, with both sides fully beaded. One side has a pattern of green and white squares with a blue and black triangle border, the other side has a multicoloured stepped diamond on a blue background with a black edge on three sides and three black squares along the top edge. The bag has a braided hide handle (39.0 x 2.0 cm) with fur attached. The bottom edge of the bag has beaded hanging thong with fur tufts at the end.

Subject: Indigenous; crafts; beadwork; ceremonial; religious

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

Catalogue Number: 109.02.3037

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Hairbag

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Date: prior to 1970

Material: skin; glass

Catalogue Number: 109.02.3038

Description: A replica of a hair bag, (could be displayed Re: Corleigh Belton July 2013) sewn closed, completely beaded on both sides with the same pattern - yellow background with green, white, red and blue geometric design. Irregularly cut buckskin strand handle (36.0 x 2.0 cm) attached to top corners.

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Title: Hairbag

Date: prior to 1970

Material: skin; glass

Dimensions: 7.0 x 9.0 cm

Description: A replica of a hair bag, (could be displayed Re: Corleigh Belton July 2013) sewn closed, completely beaded on both sides with the same pattern - yellow background with green, white, red and blue geometric design. Irregularly cut buckskin strand handle (36.0 x 2.0 cm) attached to top corners.