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Figurine

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact107.02.0015

Date: 1915 – 1935

Material: bone?; wood

Catalogue Number: 107.02.0015

Description: A relief carving on the surface of a hollow tube-shaped piece of bone(?). The carving is of a female figure with a large pierced fanned headdress and wings at her hips kneeling on the back of a large bird with sharp talons, beak, and large textured wings at either side. The carving is deeply inci…

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Title: Figurine

Date: 1915 – 1935

Material: bone?; wood

Dimensions: 20.7 x 4.0; 8.9 (base) x 4.5; 8.9 (base) cm

Description: A relief carving on the surface of a hollow tube-shaped piece of bone(?). The carving is of a female figure with a large pierced fanned headdress and wings at her hips kneeling on the back of a large bird with sharp talons, beak, and large textured wings at either side. The carving is deeply incised and pierced through to the hollow centre in places. The carving is attached to a stepped wooden base by fitting it over a shaped piece at the top and with one nail at the front and one nail at the back.

Subject: households; decorative; souvenirs; crafts; carving

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 107.02.0015

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Game Stick

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact108.01.0001%20a-d

Date: prior to 1930

Material: wood

Catalogue Number: 108.01.0001 a-d

Description: Two pairs of Stoney First Nation gaming sticks carved smoothly to taper and flatten at the ends. At one time each stick was painted with red ochre. There is a design carved and burned on one side of each pair. a,b) Cross inside a rectangle at the centre and at each end.c,d) Four parallel lines at…

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Title: Game Stick

Date: prior to 1930

Material: wood

Dimensions: 1.5 x 3.7 x 29.5 cm

Description: Two pairs of Stoney First Nation gaming sticks carved smoothly to taper and flatten at the ends. At one time each stick was painted with red ochre. There is a design carved and burned on one side of each pair. a,b) Cross inside a rectangle at the centre and at each end.c,d) Four parallel lines at the centre and at each end.

Subject: Indigenous, Stoney; games; crafts; carving; toys

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 108.01.0001 a-d

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Group Figurine

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Date: 1915 – 1933

Material: ivory

Catalogue Number: 107.02.0014 a,b

Description: A carved ivory figurine of a bearded, balding Japanese man wearing a knee-length textured kimono with a scarf tied about his waist and neck. The man is holding a gnarled stick over one shoulder with soft bag tied to it. A gnarled cane in his other hand is also held on to by a bald child in a long…

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Title: Group Figurine

Date: 1915 – 1933

Material: ivory

Dimensions: 11.5; 1.2 (base) x 4.2; 6.3 (base) x 4.3; 10.5 (base) cm

Description: A carved ivory figurine of a bearded, balding Japanese man wearing a knee-length textured kimono with a scarf tied about his waist and neck. The man is holding a gnarled stick over one shoulder with soft bag tied to it. A gnarled cane in his other hand is also held on to by a bald child in a long robe with a basket near its feet. The base, a completely separate low oval brown wooden stand (b), that the figurine rests on is carved with as much careful detail as the whole.