- Date
- 1945 – 1960
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0080
- Description
- A long cylindrical orange basket-style purse with a lid with a small handle, and a longer, braided, strap for carrying.
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- Title
- Purse
- Date
- 1945 – 1960
- Material
- fibre
- Dimensions
- 52.0 cm
- Description
- A long cylindrical orange basket-style purse with a lid with a small handle, and a longer, braided, strap for carrying.
- Subject
- households
- crafts
- weaving
- basketry
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0080
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Storage Basket
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- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- bark; skin; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0099
- Description
- A sturdy birchbark lidded pail like storage vessel made of a single piece of birchbark which has been folded to form a flat bottom, sloped in, but rectilinear, walls. Seamed and tied with pink dyed root fibre. A firm rim, probably of firm root or willow branch, bound in coiled pink and pale green r…
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- Title
- Storage Basket
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- bark; skin; wood
- Dimensions
- 22.6 x 22.5 x 34.5 cm
- Description
- A sturdy birchbark lidded pail like storage vessel made of a single piece of birchbark which has been folded to form a flat bottom, sloped in, but rectilinear, walls. Seamed and tied with pink dyed root fibre. A firm rim, probably of firm root or willow branch, bound in coiled pink and pale green root stalk, and two buckskin thongs, one at either end for carrying. The walls are drawn in and the folded up base seamed to them at either end, and the sides drawn in are stitched up to the vessel rim. A flat birchbark lid, attached to the vessel by a buckskin thong has two ties on its other side for sealing the vessel, and the lid is decorated with a conventional four petalled flower in pink strip fibre and four green leaves radiating from the centre.
- Subject
- Indigenous, Ojibway
- households
- basketry
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0099
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- Date
- 1940 – 1960
- Material
- bark; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0109
- Description
- Rectangular birchbark basket with cut, folded and stitched ends all from one piece of bark. Walls of basket sloped, rim folded to outside then laced with fibre in criss-cross and wound fashion. Along exerior length of basket near base are four triangular shapes scraped into bark, along width are tw…
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- Title
- Storage Bowl
- Date
- 1940 – 1960
- Material
- bark; fibre
- Dimensions
- 6.5 x 21.4 x 25.7 cm
- Description
- Rectangular birchbark basket with cut, folded and stitched ends all from one piece of bark. Walls of basket sloped, rim folded to outside then laced with fibre in criss-cross and wound fashion. Along exerior length of basket near base are four triangular shapes scraped into bark, along width are two triangular shapes.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- households
- basketry
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0109
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- Date
- 1940 – 1960
- Material
- bark; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0110
- Description
- Sturdy, rectangular birchbark basket made from one piece birch bark, has cut, folded, and stitched ends which form sides. Walls of basket sloped, rim folded, wrapped with branch then laced in criss-cross and alternating natural fibre which has been interlaced with darkened coloured bark. Continu…
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- Title
- Storage Bowl
- Date
- 1940 – 1960
- Material
- bark; fibre
- Dimensions
- 8.0 x 30.4 x 35.8 cm
- Description
- Sturdy, rectangular birchbark basket made from one piece birch bark, has cut, folded, and stitched ends which form sides. Walls of basket sloped, rim folded, wrapped with branch then laced in criss-cross and alternating natural fibre which has been interlaced with darkened coloured bark. Continuous scraped design below exterior rim consists of flowing plant and semi-circle pattern.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- households
- basketry
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0110
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- Date
- 1945 – 1965
- Material
- grass?
- Catalogue Number
- 110.02.0004
- Description
- A round shallow basket with a flat bottom and gently flaring sides. The basket has wrapped coil construction with the coils held together by wrapping two rows at fixed intervals. The basket is flexible.
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- Title
- Tray
- Date
- 1945 – 1965
- Material
- grass?
- Dimensions
- 4.0 x 20.0 x 20.0 cm
- Description
- A round shallow basket with a flat bottom and gently flaring sides. The basket has wrapped coil construction with the coils held together by wrapping two rows at fixed intervals. The basket is flexible.
- Subject
- households
- crafts
- weaving
- basketry
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 110.02.0004
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