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Artist
Unknown
Date
prior to 1962
Medium
wool; hide
Catalogue Number
UnK.08.07
Description
This square wall hanging has green and black stitching all around the edges and in the corners. In the light background the scene includes in the upper section a male with a bow and arrow aiming at a caribou. The middle section shows a woman with a child on her back and a male figure with an arm ra…
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Artist
Unknown
Title
Family Caribou Hunt
Date
prior to 1962
Medium
wool; hide
Dimensions
58.0 x 66.0 cm
Description
This square wall hanging has green and black stitching all around the edges and in the corners. In the light background the scene includes in the upper section a male with a bow and arrow aiming at a caribou. The middle section shows a woman with a child on her back and a male figure with an arm raised. Just right of the center is a tee pee. Above the tee pee area is another woman with two children. The bottom area shows a dog tied to a fixed peg in the ground and another figure working on the tee pee. All the image shapes have been cut out of fibre with the exception of the tee pee, it is made from skin. The overall colour in this wall hanging is yellow, black,green and off white.
Subject
figures
male
female
child
activity
hunting
animals
caribou
dog
architecture
teepee
Credit
Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
Catalogue Number
UnK.08.07
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Artist
Toyohara Kunichika
Date
1879 – 1879
Medium
woodblock on paper
Catalogue Number
KoT.04.02 a-c
Description
This triptych is a Kabuki Theater Poster. The first panel features two actors dressed as women. Both are holding fans and standing in front of a red background. The actor on the left is taunting the actor in the second panel who has blue hair and is wearing a white Kimono while holding a string of…
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Artist
Toyohara Kunichika
Title
Kabuki Theatre Poster
Date
1879 – 1879
Medium
woodblock on paper
Dimensions
36.0 x 73.5 cm
Description
This triptych is a Kabuki Theater Poster. The first panel features two actors dressed as women. Both are holding fans and standing in front of a red background. The actor on the left is taunting the actor in the second panel who has blue hair and is wearing a white Kimono while holding a string of beads. The background in the second panel is a deep blue with a magnolia tree and flowers and a parrot in the trc. The third panel features a third actor in a green kimono. He is facing the actor in the second panel and appears to be angry. He is holding a rope with both hands and has 2 swords in his belt. He is standing in front of a red background and a portion of the background from the second panel.
Subject
figures
male
Kabuki
activity
acting
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
KoT.04.02 a-c
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
n.d.
Medium
graphite on paper
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.007
Description
This artist has drawn a rectangular box on the paper. Within the box on the left side is a group of men and women all facing a single man on the right side. The man on the right facing the group is smoking a pipe and is wearing a cowboy hat. This man looks like Jimmy Simpson. All characters in …
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
A Quiet Day at Home
Date
n.d.
Medium
graphite on paper
Dimensions
21.2 x 27.5 cm
Description
This artist has drawn a rectangular box on the paper. Within the box on the left side is a group of men and women all facing a single man on the right side. The man on the right facing the group is smoking a pipe and is wearing a cowboy hat. This man looks like Jimmy Simpson. All characters in the group are taking pictures of the single man and all the figures are drawn in a cartoon style. verso:The paper’s letterhead says “Num-Ti-Jah Lodge”.
Subject
figures
group
female
male
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.007
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The Tenryu River at Mitsuke, from the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido

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Artist
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 1858, Japanese)
Date
1834
Medium
woodblock on paper
Catalogue Number
HiU.04.04
Description
Two boats, two people in one of them, are nosed up to sandbar. The sandbar runs through middle of picture. More boats and men on other side of sandbar. Some men are on the bar loading a llama. Two rows of trees are silhouetted top left. The water is blue, a strip of dark blue runs across top of pic…
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Artist
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 1858, Japanese)
Title
The Tenryu River at Mitsuke, from the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido
Date
1834
Medium
woodblock on paper
Dimensions
22 x 34 cm
Description
Two boats, two people in one of them, are nosed up to sandbar. The sandbar runs through middle of picture. More boats and men on other side of sandbar. Some men are on the bar loading a llama. Two rows of trees are silhouetted top left. The water is blue, a strip of dark blue runs across top of picture.
Subject
landscape
river
Tenryu River
activity
boating
figures
male
female
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
HiU.04.04
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Untitled [Five Men taking a Break]

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Artist
Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)
Date
c. 1930
Medium
gouache; conté on card
Catalogue Number
GyH.07.01
Description
Five men are sitting in a group on logs and stumps. All are dressed as if they might be cowboys. Three men on the right appear to be talking with one another and a second group of two men on the left appear to be having a second conversation. In the foreground between the two small groups are so…
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Artist
Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)
Title
Untitled [Five Men taking a Break]
Date
c. 1930
Medium
gouache; conté on card
Dimensions
28 x 38 cm
Description
Five men are sitting in a group on logs and stumps. All are dressed as if they might be cowboys. Three men on the right appear to be talking with one another and a second group of two men on the left appear to be having a second conversation. In the foreground between the two small groups are some cooking utensils, frying pans and tin cans. A creek on the left edge of the painting flows down between the men. Two tree trunks are on either side of the painting. A man on the left is leaning on one of them. In the background is a log cabin and a fence that runs in front of it.
Subject
figures
male
cowboys
architecture
cabin
landscape
creek
foothills
trees
Credit
Gift of Henry George Glyde, Victoria, 1997
Catalogue Number
GyH.07.01
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