topic:"dancing" found 10 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Buffalo Dancer

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Artist: Velino Herrera (1902 – 1973, American)

Date: 1920 – 1960

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: HeV.07.01

Description: An man in full ceremonial regalia, bison headdress, yellow skirt with snake design, red sash, white moccasins with brown fringes, rattles in right hand and horns in left. He is dancing, standing on left leg.

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Artist: Velino Herrera (1902 – 1973, American)

Title: Buffalo Dancer

Date: 1920 – 1960

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 23.0 x 12.5 cm

Description: An man in full ceremonial regalia, bison headdress, yellow skirt with snake design, red sash, white moccasins with brown fringes, rattles in right hand and horns in left. He is dancing, standing on left leg.

Subject: activity, dancing; figure, male

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

Catalogue Number: HeV.07.01

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Ceremonial Dancer

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Artist: Gerald Tailfeathers (1925 – 1975, Canadian)

Date: 1967

Medium: watercolour, ink on paper

Catalogue Number: TaG.05.01

Description: Colour: brown, black, turquoise, orange on white. A single figure in ceremonial dress whirls two turquoise blue hoops round his wrists. The black and white feathers of his headdress and tail are tipped with orange.

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Artist: Gerald Tailfeathers (1925 – 1975, Canadian)

Title: Ceremonial Dancer

Date: 1967

Medium: watercolour, ink on paper

Dimensions: 17.6 x 22.8 cm

Description: Colour: brown, black, turquoise, orange on white. A single figure in ceremonial dress whirls two turquoise blue hoops round his wrists. The black and white feathers of his headdress and tail are tipped with orange.

Subject: figure, male; activity, dancing

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1970

Catalogue Number: TaG.05.01

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Drummer

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Artist: Unknown

Date: n.d.

Catalogue Number: UnK.06.60

Description: Sculpted man playing drum. Man wearing hooded parka, slightly hunched over and playing drum in left hand with drumstick held in right hand; Quest (Banff store) sticker removed and Canadian Eskimo Art sticker discarded indicated Repulse Bay, Artist Unknown.

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Drummer

Date: n.d.

Dimensions: 18.4 x 7.8 x 15.0 cm

Description: Sculpted man playing drum. Man wearing hooded parka, slightly hunched over and playing drum in left hand with drumstick held in right hand; Quest (Banff store) sticker removed and Canadian Eskimo Art sticker discarded indicated Repulse Bay, Artist Unknown.

Subject: figure, male; activity, dancing

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

Catalogue Number: UnK.06.60

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Funeral of Morris Crow

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Artist: George Webber

Date: 2006 – 2007

Medium: photograph on paper

Catalogue Number: WeB.18.18

Description: Sundance Chief Morris Crow’s funeral, Standoff, Blood Reserve. Photograph of a couple weeping and dancing.

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Artist: George Webber

Title: Funeral of Morris Crow

Date: 2006 – 2007

Medium: photograph on paper

Dimensions: 11” x 14” cm

Description: Sundance Chief Morris Crow’s funeral, Standoff, Blood Reserve. Photograph of a couple weeping and dancing.

Subject: documentary photography; First Nations; funeral; Indigenous; dancing

Credit: Gift of George Webber, Calgary, 2014

Catalogue Number: WeB.18.18

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Miscellaneous Drawing

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Artist: Edmee Moore (1908 – 1971, Canadian)

Date: 1924 – 1932

Medium: graphite; charcoal on paper; board

Catalogue Number: MoE.03.091

Description: Sketch of a scene from a dance hall/ballroom(?). Multiple couples dancing, a palm tree in the foreground, with a couple seated at a table behind. Background includes rough sketch of band.

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Artist: Edmee Moore (1908 – 1971, Canadian)

Title: Miscellaneous Drawing

Date: 1924 – 1932

Medium: graphite; charcoal on paper; board

Dimensions: 17.8 x 28.1 cm

Description: Sketch of a scene from a dance hall/ballroom(?). Multiple couples dancing, a palm tree in the foreground, with a couple seated at a table behind. Background includes rough sketch of band.

Subject: dance; dancing; sketch; band; figure

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: MoE.03.091

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: ink; watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.731

Description: A group of children signing together in a background while a lady plays a grand piano in the foreground. There are lines extending from the piano to emphasis music being played, and these lines direct the viewers attention to a little stick figure dancing on the ground to the right of the piano. ve…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1930

Medium: ink; watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 10.0 x 15.0 cm

Description: A group of children signing together in a background while a lady plays a grand piano in the foreground. There are lines extending from the piano to emphasis music being played, and these lines direct the viewers attention to a little stick figure dancing on the ground to the right of the piano. verso: in the TRC “Concord November 1930”

Subject: woman; children; grand piano; music; singing; stick figure; dancing

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.731

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1916 – 1966

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.751

Description: A quick sketch - has a cartoon quality to it - of performers doing their act on stage, with a orchestra playing music in the orchestra pit. Above the performers there are three small drawings referencing activities to do in Banff: near the TLC of drawing is one about the theatre “LUX THEATRE”, in t…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1916 – 1966

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 21.0 x 23.3 cm

Description: A quick sketch - has a cartoon quality to it - of performers doing their act on stage, with a orchestra playing music in the orchestra pit. Above the performers there are three small drawings referencing activities to do in Banff: near the TLC of drawing is one about the theatre “LUX THEATRE”, in the middle near the top edge of drawing a boat with people “TO ENJOY BANFF GO ON THE RIVER,” and near the TRC of the drawing a vehicle “BREWSTER TRANSPORT.”