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And Scabbard Dagger
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- Date
- 1850 – 1920
- Material
- wood; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0056 a,b
- Description
- A long straight knife with fluted wooden handle and scabbard ornately trimmed with brass. (a) dagger, short, narrow, pointed, double edged steel blade with small, dark, fluted wooden handle. Blade guard, cast of brass with raised curlicue design, turns upward at sides, handle tip of cast brass wit…
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- Title
- And Scabbard Dagger
- Date
- 1850 – 1920
- Material
- wood; metal
- Dimensions
- 1.7 x 3.3 x 24.5 cm
- Description
- A long straight knife with fluted wooden handle and scabbard ornately trimmed with brass. (a) dagger, short, narrow, pointed, double edged steel blade with small, dark, fluted wooden handle. Blade guard, cast of brass with raised curlicue design, turns upward at sides, handle tip of cast brass with similar design and small lug with hole through at one side Note: blade guard loose; wooden handle cracked along length; blade pitted. (b) scabbard, narrow and straight, made of two pieces of wood held together by two rings of heavy cast brass with raised floral motifs, becoming oval medallions on one side with cast relief of dragon like figures. Cast brass bands at mouth and tip repeat dragon floral motif of other two bands and have floral motif cut through exposing pebbly stone inlay in wood. Brass ring near top with small brass loop on one side.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0056 a,b
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- Date
- 1916 – 1927
- Medium
- graphite on paper card
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.448
- Description
- Two pencil drawings, oriented 180 degrees opposite of eachother, of a dragon boat. The drawings are separated by the intentional folding of the card. Below the fold, the drawing includes people inside the boat and the boat’s surroundings, while the drawing above the fold is simply an empty boat. Th…
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1916 – 1927
- Medium
- graphite on paper card
- Dimensions
- 27.5 x 16.5 cm
- Description
- Two pencil drawings, oriented 180 degrees opposite of eachother, of a dragon boat. The drawings are separated by the intentional folding of the card. Below the fold, the drawing includes people inside the boat and the boat’s surroundings, while the drawing above the fold is simply an empty boat. The support is a card marked with Honolulu’s Moana Seaside Resort logo.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.448
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