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Untitled (woman at a tapestry loom)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactpoa.08.01
- Artist
- April Post
- Date
- 1990
- Medium
- weaving on fibre
- Catalogue Number
- PoA.08.01
- Description
- A woman, with black hair tied by a pink ribbon, is sitting on a carpet using an upright tapestry loom. She is using a hand comb to bring down the threads that will beat the weft down. The background is blue and the colours used to depict the woman’s clothing is shades of blues for the blouse and sk…
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- Artist
- April Post
- Title
- Untitled (woman at a tapestry loom)
- Date
- 1990
- Medium
- weaving on fibre
- Dimensions
- 16.5 x 13.5 cm
- Description
- A woman, with black hair tied by a pink ribbon, is sitting on a carpet using an upright tapestry loom. She is using a hand comb to bring down the threads that will beat the weft down. The background is blue and the colours used to depict the woman’s clothing is shades of blues for the blouse and skirt and pink for the belt. She is sitting on a vertical striped, green, pink, beige striped carpet on a white background. The carpet she is weaving has chevron shapes and is green, pink, blue and grey.
- Subject
- crafts
- weaving
- April Post
- Mary G. Andrews
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- PoA.08.01
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Untitled [wall hanging]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactanm.08.034
- Date
- 1980
- Medium
- fibre; cotton, wool; wood
- Catalogue Number
- AnM.08.034
- Description
- A fringed orange cotton wall hanging woven in plain weaving with a piece of undulating, unbleached wool in various sheds through to create a design (there was no pattern); 1.0 cm from the top fringe there is a piece of flat varnished bamboo (1.0cmx13.5cm wide) passed through the weaving horizontall…
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- Title
- Untitled [wall hanging]
- Date
- 1980
- Medium
- fibre; cotton, wool; wood
- Dimensions
- 10.5 x 55.0 cm
- Description
- A fringed orange cotton wall hanging woven in plain weaving with a piece of undulating, unbleached wool in various sheds through to create a design (there was no pattern); 1.0 cm from the top fringe there is a piece of flat varnished bamboo (1.0cmx13.5cm wide) passed through the weaving horizontally enabling it to be attached to something for hanging on the wall. The bamboo piece could also sit on wall pegs or small nails.
- Subject
- crafts
- weaving
- Mary G. Andrews
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- AnM.08.034
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Untitled (weaving sample of bookmarks)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactanm.08.037
- Date
- 1980
- Catalogue Number
- AnM.08.037
- Description
- A weaving sample of two bookmarks (still attached to each other). It is woven with blue, brown and yellow cotton. The warp has paper inserted in two places (1.50cm wide) in the middle of the sample. After the hem stitching was done it could be cut; when cut between the inserted papers it would have…
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- Title
- Untitled (weaving sample of bookmarks)
- Date
- 1980
- Dimensions
- 5.0 x 44.0 cm
- Description
- A weaving sample of two bookmarks (still attached to each other). It is woven with blue, brown and yellow cotton. The warp has paper inserted in two places (1.50cm wide) in the middle of the sample. After the hem stitching was done it could be cut; when cut between the inserted papers it would have a perfect fringe on each bookmark.
- Subject
- crafts
- weaving
- Mary G. Andrews
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- AnM.08.037
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War Bonnet Headdress
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact103.09.3010
- Date
- 1978
- Material
- feathers; glass; fibre; skin; wood; hair
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.3010
- Description
- Beaded white band with orange pyramids and blue crosses. Medallions with five orange spokes and blue triangles, fringe hanging from bottom edge, attached to ends of browband. White doeskin fringe at ears with red and yellow wood beads. Dark eagle feathers with horsehair tips and white down base…
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- Title
- War Bonnet Headdress
- Date
- 1978
- Material
- feathers; glass; fibre; skin; wood; hair
- Description
- Beaded white band with orange pyramids and blue crosses. Medallions with five orange spokes and blue triangles, fringe hanging from bottom edge, attached to ends of browband. White doeskin fringe at ears with red and yellow wood beads. Dark eagle feathers with horsehair tips and white down bases. CRW's writing: "David Bearspaw Headress, Nov. 1978."
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.3010
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Ice Breakup on the Atlantic
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactanm.08.042
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- weaving
- Catalogue Number
- AnM.08.042
- Description
- Undulating lines of teal blue, grey, and white woven together, with strands of turquoise to simulate the ice breakup in the ocean. No pattern was laid out to do this work.
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- Title
- Ice Breakup on the Atlantic
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- weaving
- Dimensions
- 35.2 x 31.7 cm
- Description
- Undulating lines of teal blue, grey, and white woven together, with strands of turquoise to simulate the ice breakup in the ocean. No pattern was laid out to do this work.
- Subject
- crafts
- weaving
- Mary G. Andrews
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- AnM.08.042
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Untitled [wall hanging]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactanm.08.033
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- AnM.08.033
- Description
- A fringed wool, wall hanging woven as a split-ply (two-ply) twining method, with fingers, in three colours: brown, green and beige. The weaving is done around and suspended from a small twig.
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- Title
- Untitled [wall hanging]
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- fibre
- Dimensions
- 16.0 x 16.0 cm
- Description
- A fringed wool, wall hanging woven as a split-ply (two-ply) twining method, with fingers, in three colours: brown, green and beige. The weaving is done around and suspended from a small twig.
- Subject
- crafts
- weaving
- Mary G. Andrews
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- AnM.08.033
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Untitled [blanket]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactanm.08.035
- Date
- 1970
- Catalogue Number
- AnM.08.035
- Description
- A hand woven striped blanket with a fringe. It is plain weaving on a striped warp. The colours are brown, grey, taupe, copper, rust, and beige. On viewer’s left just above (1.0cm) the fringe and 1.0cm from the blanket edge, there is a polyester tag (1.50x4.50cm wide) stitched on. There is a shuttl…
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- Title
- Untitled [blanket]
- Date
- 1970
- Dimensions
- 109.0 x 210.0 cm
- Description
- A hand woven striped blanket with a fringe. It is plain weaving on a striped warp. The colours are brown, grey, taupe, copper, rust, and beige. On viewer’s left just above (1.0cm) the fringe and 1.0cm from the blanket edge, there is a polyester tag (1.50x4.50cm wide) stitched on. There is a shuttle on the left strung with a piece of fibre leading to a spool on viewer’s right; written on the tag “Hand Woven BY Mary G. Andrews”
- Subject
- crafts
- weaving
- Mary G. Andrews
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- AnM.08.035
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- Date
- 1900 – 1920
- Material
- glass; skin; fibre; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.1056 a-c
- Description
- 3 beaded belts with buckles (a) 96.5 x 3.3 beaded onto heavy cotton, backing light patterned cotton, bead design in 5 parts, 3 red and white geometric design, 2 yellow and green geometric design, dark blue beaded border, metal buckle attached with leather, other end leather strap 9.5 x 1.5, (b) 9…
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- Title
- Beaded Belts
- Date
- 1900 – 1920
- Material
- glass; skin; fibre; metal
- Dimensions
- 3.3 x 96.5 cm
- Description
- 3 beaded belts with buckles (a) 96.5 x 3.3 beaded onto heavy cotton, backing light patterned cotton, bead design in 5 parts, 3 red and white geometric design, 2 yellow and green geometric design, dark blue beaded border, metal buckle attached with leather, other end leather strap 9.5 x 1.5, (b) 90.7 x 4.0, beaded onto heavy cotton, white background with 6 rectangular designs ca 2.5 wide spaced regularly with 5 star shapes between, metal belt buckle 4.5 x 2.5 attached one end with buckskin, other end buckskin strap 14.0 x 2.2 (c) 100.5 x 4.0, beaded onto buckskin, multi-coloured geometric design, predominant colours orange, yellow, dark blue, border both sides of light green and mauve, metal belt buckle 4.5 x3.2 sewn onto beads, other end buckskin strap 10.5 x 1.4.
- Credit
- Gift of Robert Crosby, Banff, 1985
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.1056 a-c
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- Date
- 1920 – 1930
- Material
- skin, deer; fibre; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 104.10.0004
- Description
- A deerskin sheath with a canvas backing made to hold a rifle. The case has bands of beadwork at the top and bottom, each about 1/5 of length of the case. The beadwork has a white beaded background with a design of two triangles joined at tips in yellows, red and blue. There is a leather fringe a…
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- Title
- Gun Case
- Date
- 1920 – 1930
- Material
- skin, deer; fibre; glass
- Dimensions
- 104.0 cm
- Description
- A deerskin sheath with a canvas backing made to hold a rifle. The case has bands of beadwork at the top and bottom, each about 1/5 of length of the case. The beadwork has a white beaded background with a design of two triangles joined at tips in yellows, red and blue. There is a leather fringe along the side of the beadwork and around the top of the case.
- Subject
- Indigenous, Blackfoot
- sports
- hunting
- crafts
- decorative
- beadwork
- regalia
- tourism
- trading
- Philip Moore
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.10.0004
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Beaded Headband
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact103.04.3001
- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- glass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.04.3001
- Description
- Beaded headband with a beaded triangle joined to the centre of the top edge. The ends of the band are attached together with white elastic. A pair of medallions are attached to the elastic. The headband is blue with a geometric design in yellow, red, white and green. There are two groups of fin…
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- Title
- Beaded Headband
- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- glass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 27.5 x 27.0 cm
- Description
- Beaded headband with a beaded triangle joined to the centre of the top edge. The ends of the band are attached together with white elastic. A pair of medallions are attached to the elastic. The headband is blue with a geometric design in yellow, red, white and green. There are two groups of finge hanging from the bottom edge of the headband at either end of the triangle. The band is backed by white fabric (canvas?).
- Subject
- Indigenous
- crafts
- beadwork
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.04.3001
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