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- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.05.02
- Description
- General colour: grey green. A man, wearing only a blue loin cloth and two feathers in his braided hair grips the neck of another man who kneels to the right of him. A ghost image of a bear grasping a bison is slightly superimposed on top of them. There is a horizon line of white figures - four to e…
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- Title
- The Contest
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 26.1 x 37.5 cm
- Description
- General colour: grey green. A man, wearing only a blue loin cloth and two feathers in his braided hair grips the neck of another man who kneels to the right of him. A ghost image of a bear grasping a bison is slightly superimposed on top of them. There is a horizon line of white figures - four to each side of the central image.Au verso: “THE CONTEST” tlhc “436” encircled, rhtc “K.6” (remaining number hidden by archival tape)brhc “12” encircled, below “30” encircled
- Credit
- Purchased from Archives of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, 1970
- Catalogue Number
- StS.05.02
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Polar Bear Book Ends
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- Date
- prior to 1962
- Catalogue Number
- PhI.06.01 a,b
- Description
- Black stone, the bear is standing with front legs upraised, as high as his head, carved toes and facial features, the back flat bookend is the same piece of stone as the bear, bear (a) is slightly bigger than bear (b)
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- Title
- Polar Bear Book Ends
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Dimensions
- 15.0 x 8.6 cm
- Description
- Black stone, the bear is standing with front legs upraised, as high as his head, carved toes and facial features, the back flat bookend is the same piece of stone as the bear, bear (a) is slightly bigger than bear (b)
- Subject
- animal, bear
- animal, polar bear
- bookends
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- PhI.06.01 a,b
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- Date
- n.d.
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.59
- Description
- Sculptured bears - syllabics on bottom (ᐸᐅᓗᓯ) and E91605; two bears sitting on haunches, back to back; one bear with paws in front holding object, other bear also with paws in front but holding nothing; both seated on carved base. Poss. purchased by CRW at Povungnituk in 1968.
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- Title
- Two Bears
- Date
- n.d.
- Dimensions
- 10.0 x 6.2 x 14.6 cm
- Description
- Sculptured bears - syllabics on bottom (ᐸᐅᓗᓯ) and E91605; two bears sitting on haunches, back to back; one bear with paws in front holding object, other bear also with paws in front but holding nothing; both seated on carved base. Poss. purchased by CRW at Povungnituk in 1968.
- Subject
- animal, bear
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.59
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