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Doll

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Date: 1960 – 1970

Material: skin; hair; glass; fibre

Catalogue Number: 108.05.0019

Description: An Indigenous doll wearing simple buckskin dress with large floral design of blue leaves with orange glass centres beaded across chest and back. Horsehair stitched to head gathered at each side, with a single buckskin thong looped across back of head, simple notched headband, and beaded features of…

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Title: Doll

Date: 1960 – 1970

Material: skin; hair; glass; fibre

Dimensions: 33.0 x 7.0 x 17.0 cm

Description: An Indigenous doll wearing simple buckskin dress with large floral design of blue leaves with orange glass centres beaded across chest and back. Horsehair stitched to head gathered at each side, with a single buckskin thong looped across back of head, simple notched headband, and beaded features of blue eyes and red mouth, with black bead nostrils. Buckskin moccasins with flap at heel and short buckskin leggings sewn to body. Underbody of firmly stuffed red fabric, hands stitched to side of body.

Subject: Indigenous; playthings; children; figure; female; beadwork

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

Catalogue Number: 108.05.0019

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Untitled

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Artist: Blake

Date: n.d.

Catalogue Number: BlK.06.01

Description: A realistic rendering of a woman's head and neck; hair parted in centre with braids coming together in front; left earring; necklace; a plaster of paris casting painted brown; flat back has a metal wire loop near top for hanging; is a pair with B1.06.02.

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Artist: Blake

Title: Untitled

Date: n.d.

Dimensions: 22.5 x 7.0 x 10.5 cm

Description: A realistic rendering of a woman's head and neck; hair parted in centre with braids coming together in front; left earring; necklace; a plaster of paris casting painted brown; flat back has a metal wire loop near top for hanging; is a pair with B1.06.02.

Subject: portrait, female; Indigenous

Credit: Gift of D. S. Harvie, 1969

Catalogue Number: BlK.06.01

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Mrs.Tom Poucette; Nancy Abraham

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1931

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.302

Description: Woman wearing bright yellow scarf around head and tied in the front under her chin, black braided hair tied with red hangs in front on top of her blue top. Full head and shoulder view.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Mrs.Tom Poucette; Nancy Abraham

Date: 1931

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 35.5 x 28.0 cm

Description: Woman wearing bright yellow scarf around head and tied in the front under her chin, black braided hair tied with red hangs in front on top of her blue top. Full head and shoulder view.

Subject: portrait, female; Indigenous

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.302

Notes: Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018

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Lizzie Irquasiak, Samisa's Daughter

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1968

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.298

Description: Facial portrait of a young woman under the hood of her parka. The woman is gazing at the viewer surrounded by the fur trim of her jacket's hood. The woman's face is coloured red-brown with tints of brown and red blended in. She also has short black hair. The fur trim of her hood is coloured light …

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Lizzie Irquasiak, Samisa's Daughter

Date: 1968

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 35.5 x 28.0 cm

Description: Facial portrait of a young woman under the hood of her parka. The woman is gazing at the viewer surrounded by the fur trim of her jacket's hood. The woman's face is coloured red-brown with tints of brown and red blended in. She also has short black hair. The fur trim of her hood is coloured light tan with highlights of white, and shadows of ochre and brown, or blue. The woman is wearing a light blue shirt under her jacket.

Subject: portrait, female; Indigenous

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.298

Notes: Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018

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Nanook's Wife

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1968

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.296

Description: Facial portrait of a woman in a fur parka with the hood down. The firgure's head is visible in a sea of fur. The dark brown trim of the hood of the woman's jacket forms a circle which sits in front of and behind her head. Light tan fur with areas in grey shadow separates the woman's head from the r…

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Nanook's Wife

Date: 1968

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 35.5 x 28.0 cm

Description: Facial portrait of a woman in a fur parka with the hood down. The firgure's head is visible in a sea of fur. The dark brown trim of the hood of the woman's jacket forms a circle which sits in front of and behind her head. Light tan fur with areas in grey shadow separates the woman's head from the ring of dark brown. The woman's face is coloured red-brown with tints of orange and pink blended in. The woman is smiling. She has short hair (coloured brown, black and grey) which forms a thin semicircle about her head.

Subject: portrait, female; Indigenous

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.296

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Stoney Mother and Daughter

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.391

Description: A woman and child sitting close together bottom right centre. The woman is wearing a pink outfit with a dark blue shawl around her neck. She has long black braids. The child is wearing a light coloured dress with decorations.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Stoney Mother and Daughter

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.7 x 35.2 cm

Description: A woman and child sitting close together bottom right centre. The woman is wearing a pink outfit with a dark blue shawl around her neck. She has long black braids. The child is wearing a light coloured dress with decorations.