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Belt

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Date: 1920 – 1940

Material: fibre; metal

Catalogue Number: 103.07.0173

Description: A soft belt of red violet velvet with large silver buckle. Velvet is sewn into long tube and gathered slightly at end where attached to buckle. Two part buckle hooks together with large hook and eye on back. Cast buckle shaped like two pointed cinquefoils butting together at the flat side, each co…

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Title: Belt

Date: 1920 – 1940

Material: fibre; metal

Dimensions: 8.5 x 93.5 cm

Description: A soft belt of red violet velvet with large silver buckle. Velvet is sewn into long tube and gathered slightly at end where attached to buckle. Two part buckle hooks together with large hook and eye on back. Cast buckle shaped like two pointed cinquefoils butting together at the flat side, each containing a female dancing figure in very high relief. Figure has firm breasts and tiny waist, and is wearing draped bloomers and tall headdress. Scrolls and flowers form garland around figure. Smooth border around pebbly background surface, follows shape of buckle each side of buckle has bar soldered across back to attach belt. Velvet attached one side only with loose basting stitches around bar.

Subject: households; figure; female; religious; Hinduism

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

Catalogue Number: 103.07.0173

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Sauce Dish

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Date: 1968 – 1970

Material: metal; enamel

Catalogue Number: 104.20.0648

Description: Small, sloped, unfooted circular dish. Black bottom scratched "To Catharine with Love Anna". Dish is blue grey with seated figure holding stomach, as in heartburn, goblet on left.

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Title: Sauce Dish

Date: 1968 – 1970

Material: metal; enamel

Dimensions: 1.2 x 9.8 cm

Description: Small, sloped, unfooted circular dish. Black bottom scratched "To Catharine with Love Anna". Dish is blue grey with seated figure holding stomach, as in heartburn, goblet on left.

Subject: households; craft; figure; female; Anna Latterman

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

Catalogue Number: 104.20.0648

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Miniature Figurine

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Date: 1920 – 1950

Material: shell; wood

Catalogue Number: 107.01.0154 a,b

Description: Two figurines of women with long full ruffled skirts and bonnets made up completely of seashells. (a) skirt of limpet shells form puffed sleeves and another a muff, two small shells form puffed sleeves and another a muff. Facial features painted on a shell with texture of shell painted over to rep…

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Title: Miniature Figurine

Date: 1920 – 1950

Material: shell; wood

Dimensions: 6.4 x 3.1 x 4.0 cm

Description: Two figurines of women with long full ruffled skirts and bonnets made up completely of seashells. (a) skirt of limpet shells form puffed sleeves and another a muff, two small shells form puffed sleeves and another a muff. Facial features painted on a shell with texture of shell painted over to represent hair, face is cupped by another shell forming a bonnet. (b) skirt of limpet shells piled on one another and glued together. Small shells form puffed sleeves with wooden stick arms. Necklace painted on bodice shell, facial features and black curly hair painted on shell which is cupped by another forming a bonnet. Two shells for feet on underside of skirt.

Subject: households; decorative; miniatures; figure; female

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

Catalogue Number: 107.01.0154 a,b

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Miniature Rickshaw

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Date: 1960 – 1970

Material: plastic

Catalogue Number: 107.01.0170 a,b

Description: A cast plastic rickshaw (a) coloured to look like old ivory. Open carriage holds woman on kimono with parasol, and is decorated with dragon motifs on fenders and back, coolie between shafts is in mid-stride and wearing umbrella like hat. Carriage connected to wheels which turn by two leaf springs,…

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Title: Miniature Rickshaw

Date: 1960 – 1970

Material: plastic

Dimensions: 10.2 x 5.5 x 10.5 cm

Description: A cast plastic rickshaw (a) coloured to look like old ivory. Open carriage holds woman on kimono with parasol, and is decorated with dragon motifs on fenders and back, coolie between shafts is in mid-stride and wearing umbrella like hat. Carriage connected to wheels which turn by two leaf springs, rickshaw rides on flat, rectangular, black wooden base. (b) in silver and gold cardboard box printed overall with thick white bars.

Subject: households; decorative; miniatures; figure' male; female; transportation

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

Catalogue Number: 107.01.0170 a,b

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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: Henry Ayn

Date: c. 1925

Medium: gouache on paper

Catalogue Number: AyH.07.01

Description: Two older ladies are standing close together. Both ladies have aprons on and are carrying baskets. One lady has an umbrella tucked into her arm while the two look down at a small booklet or list. In a basket sitting on the ground in the bottom left corner of the image there are two ducks. One lady …

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Artist: Henry Ayn

Title: Untitled

Date: c. 1925

Medium: gouache on paper

Dimensions: 33.5 x 24.0 cm

Description: Two older ladies are standing close together. Both ladies have aprons on and are carrying baskets. One lady has an umbrella tucked into her arm while the two look down at a small booklet or list. In a basket sitting on the ground in the bottom left corner of the image there are two ducks. One lady is wearing a dark dress and the other is wearing a lighter coloured dress.Both women are wearing head covers of some type.

Subject: figure; female; animal; duck

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

Catalogue Number: AyH.07.01

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Hommage

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Artist: Charles Fraser Comfort (1900 – 1994, Canadian)

Date: 1968

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: CfC.01.01

Description: An oil painting entitled “Hommage” as an hommage to Manet’s “Le Dejeuner Sur L’Herbe”.Blue and white label on back reads:Royal Canadian Academy of Arts YEAR 1968ARTISTS NAME Charles F. Comfort LLD RCAADDRESS 28 Blvd. Alexandre Tache Hull P.Q.TITLE HOMMAGE PRICE: $4500.ooSIZE H X W 59” x 72” M…

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Artist: Charles Fraser Comfort (1900 – 1994, Canadian)

Title: Hommage

Date: 1968

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 128.0 x 184.0 cm

Description: An oil painting entitled “Hommage” as an hommage to Manet’s “Le Dejeuner Sur L’Herbe”.Blue and white label on back reads:Royal Canadian Academy of Arts YEAR 1968ARTISTS NAME Charles F. Comfort LLD RCAADDRESS 28 Blvd. Alexandre Tache Hull P.Q.TITLE HOMMAGE PRICE: $4500.ooSIZE H X W 59” x 72” MEDIUM oil on CanvasRed sticker underneath Member R.C.Awritten trhc in black felt pen: #44 See narrative for information regarding the painting.