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Animal Figurine
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact107.01.0010
- Date
- 1900 – 1940
- Material
- mineral, onyx
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0010
- Description
- A stylized dragon carved from white onyx. The dragon’s body is flat and slightly arched over a round disk base with a dragon's head at one end looking back over the body. There is an ornate raised relief carving on the body. The base is marked with (Chinese?) characters inside a square.
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- Title
- Animal Figurine
- Date
- 1900 – 1940
- Material
- mineral, onyx
- Dimensions
- 2.0 x 12.0 cm
- Description
- A stylized dragon carved from white onyx. The dragon’s body is flat and slightly arched over a round disk base with a dragon's head at one end looking back over the body. There is an ornate raised relief carving on the body. The base is marked with (Chinese?) characters inside a square.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0010
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Child's Slippers
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact103.03.0057%20a%2cb
- Date
- 1930 – 1960
- Material
- skin; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.0057 a,b
- Description
- A pair of children's slippers, flat soles of one piece of relatively soft leather, rounded toes, slight built in heels. Toes decorated with an embroidered image of a Chinese dragon in florid red, orange, pink, and tail with red, green and yellow. Slippers are primarily green silk.
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- Title
- Child's Slippers
- Date
- 1930 – 1960
- Material
- skin; fibre
- Dimensions
- 4.3 x 5.5 x 12.8 cm
- Description
- A pair of children's slippers, flat soles of one piece of relatively soft leather, rounded toes, slight built in heels. Toes decorated with an embroidered image of a Chinese dragon in florid red, orange, pink, and tail with red, green and yellow. Slippers are primarily green silk.
- Subject
- households
- children
- animal
- dragon
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.0057 a,b
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