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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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Figurine Group

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Date: 1977

Material: wood; plaster

Catalogue Number: 107.01.0091

Description: Long flat wooden base painted with black enamel. Twelve small, brightly painted, plaster figures stand in a row along the base, the figures are from left to right (1) a skull painted brown, (2 )white faced person wrapped in red cloak, (3) a brown standing bear wearing coolie hat and carrying white …

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Title: Figurine Group

Date: 1977

Material: wood; plaster

Dimensions: 3.3 x 2.7 x 18.2 cm

Description: Long flat wooden base painted with black enamel. Twelve small, brightly painted, plaster figures stand in a row along the base, the figures are from left to right (1) a skull painted brown, (2 )white faced person wrapped in red cloak, (3) a brown standing bear wearing coolie hat and carrying white sack, (4) a seated white cat with red feathers, (5) a green frog, (6) a standing man with exposed fat belly wearing an orange robe and carrying a white sack over his shoulder, (7) a standing woman in blue kimono with yellow hood over face, holding a lyre, (8) a man with purple blouse and green trousers holding a club, (9 )a man with black overblouse and turquoise skirt, holding staff and round yellow object with turquoise sack over shoulder, (10) a kneeling bald man with pointed head and white beard, carrying fan and wearing green robe, (11) a black cat standing with back arched, (12) a seated man with orange robe.

Subject: households; decorative; miniatures; religious; animal; bear; cat; frog; figure; male; female

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

Catalogue Number: 107.01.0091

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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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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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Balancing Nude

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Artist: Robert Ralp Carmichael (1937 – , Canadian)

Date: 1971

Medium: coloured graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: CaR.03.02

Description: A seated nude (no furniture indicated) facing left, legs crossed, chin rests on her right hand, left arm lays across her right knee which is crossed over left. The model has long hair, face and one foot are indistinct. The drawing is done in a brown, red colour with light yellow highlights. Tit…

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Artist: Robert Ralp Carmichael (1937 – , Canadian)

Title: Balancing Nude

Date: 1971

Medium: coloured graphite on paper

Dimensions: 34.1 x 45.3 cm

Description: A seated nude (no furniture indicated) facing left, legs crossed, chin rests on her right hand, left arm lays across her right knee which is crossed over left. The model has long hair, face and one foot are indistinct. The drawing is done in a brown, red colour with light yellow highlights. Titled and signed on back as well.

Subject: figure; female

Credit: Gift of Unknown, 1968

Catalogue Number: CaR.03.02

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Woman Climbing Path

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Artist: Ruth Fulda

Date: c. 1930

Medium: watercolour; ink on paper

Catalogue Number: FuR.05.01

Description: A figure of a woman dominates centre of picture. She faces towards the back climbing a hill.

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Artist: Ruth Fulda

Title: Woman Climbing Path

Date: c. 1930

Medium: watercolour; ink on paper

Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 cm

Description: A figure of a woman dominates centre of picture. She faces towards the back climbing a hill.

Subject: activity; summer; figure; female

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: FuR.05.01

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The Child

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Artist: John Harold Thomas Snow (1911 – 2004, Canadian)

Date: 1978

Medium: coloured lithograph on paper

Catalogue Number: SnJ.04.37

Description: The figure of a woman, mid chest to head with a child in her left arm, covers most of the picture. She is sitting on a high back brown chair. She is wearing a black dress with low round yellow collar and cuffs and with a locket around her neck. The baby has a black bonnet and a blue gown. The wa…

Artist: John Harold Thomas Snow (1911 – 2004, Canadian)

Title: The Child

Date: 1978

Medium: coloured lithograph on paper

Dimensions: 48.5 x 40.5 cm

Description: The figure of a woman, mid chest to head with a child in her left arm, covers most of the picture. She is sitting on a high back brown chair. She is wearing a black dress with low round yellow collar and cuffs and with a locket around her neck. The baby has a black bonnet and a blue gown. The wall paper is diamond shaped blue green.