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Artist
Unknown
Date
prior to 1962
Catalogue Number
UnK.08.19
Description
Oval base and igloo are woven in grass. The igloo is round shaped with an arched door. Top of igloo and door opening have brown skin strips patterns. The figures are fully dressed with fibre parka, fur pants and skin boots. The parents have crochet burgandy coloured hats, skin mitts. The faces…
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Artist
Unknown
Title
Inuit Family Scene
Date
prior to 1962
Dimensions
11.5 x 20.0 x 28.2 cm
Description
Oval base and igloo are woven in grass. The igloo is round shaped with an arched door. Top of igloo and door opening have brown skin strips patterns. The figures are fully dressed with fibre parka, fur pants and skin boots. The parents have crochet burgandy coloured hats, skin mitts. The faces are made of skin, with shaped noses and stitched features. The baby is bound in cotton. The mother, with her baby in her arms, is lying inside the igloo while the man is outside looking in at them. Outside of the igloo is a two coloured fur dog, pointed ears, and stitched features. A small woven basket with fur inside is in front of the dog. A pair of skin, fur and fibre muklaks lay outside.
Subject
figure, group
animal, dog
architecture, arctic
Credit
Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
Catalogue Number
UnK.08.19
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Mounted Indians on the Move

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Artist
Reinhold H. Palenske (1884 – 1955, American)
Date
n.d.
Medium
etching on paper
Catalogue Number
PeR.04.24
Description
People on horseback in a line from one edge of the picture to the other, facing to the left; some riders have children with them; a dog travois, one horse travois; mountains in the background; they are riding along the edge of water in which the scene is repeated upside down.
Artist
Reinhold H. Palenske (1884 – 1955, American)
Title
Mounted Indians on the Move
Date
n.d.
Medium
etching on paper
Dimensions
22.5;27.5 x 30.0;35.0 cm
Description
People on horseback in a line from one edge of the picture to the other, facing to the left; some riders have children with them; a dog travois, one horse travois; mountains in the background; they are riding along the edge of water in which the scene is repeated upside down.
Subject
landscape
mountain
figure, group
animal, horse
Indigenous
Credit
Gift of Banff Centre Brewster Donation, Banff, 1986
Catalogue Number
PeR.04.24
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Artist
Cyril Harris ( – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1932
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
HaC.03.02
Description
Three figures at vendor's stand in treed setting; signed on card folder only, sketch glued to card. Xmas card sent to Whytes by Artist
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Artist
Cyril Harris ( – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Street Vendor
Date
1932
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
11.7 x 14.8 cm
Description
Three figures at vendor's stand in treed setting; signed on card folder only, sketch glued to card. Xmas card sent to Whytes by Artist
Subject
figure, group
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
HaC.03.02
Images
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