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- Date
- 1968 – 1973
- Material
- fibre; skin; plastic
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.0054 a,b
- Description
- Commercially tanned beige leather moccasin bottoms with blue and white duffel cloth panelled legs, ring of white artificial fur at ankle top and again at leg top. Scene of hunter embroidered on instep, standing with harpoon in hand, and on blue panel on leg one hunter walking and one hunter crawlin…
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- Title
- Mukluks
- Date
- 1968 – 1973
- Material
- fibre; skin; plastic
- Dimensions
- 33.0 x 11.5 x 23.5 cm
- Description
- Commercially tanned beige leather moccasin bottoms with blue and white duffel cloth panelled legs, ring of white artificial fur at ankle top and again at leg top. Scene of hunter embroidered on instep, standing with harpoon in hand, and on blue panel on leg one hunter walking and one hunter crawling, both with harpoons, and entire motif repeated on opposite side. Blue panel on instep is bound with bright red bias tape.
- Subject
- households
- hunting and fishing
- figure
- male
- Inuit
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.0054 a,b
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- Date
- 1960 – 1970
- Material
- wood; bone; feather; glass; skin; sinew
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0045
- Description
- Short spear with long white bone point tied to painted wooden handle with sinew. Handle carved with rough buffalo head near point painted black and yellow, with man's head at middle painted black hair with yellow cheeks and mouth. Bottom part painted green with red design, and green and yellow bulb…
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- Title
- Spear
- Date
- 1960 – 1970
- Material
- wood; bone; feather; glass; skin; sinew
- Dimensions
- 3.0 x 3.0 x 69.5 cm
- Description
- Short spear with long white bone point tied to painted wooden handle with sinew. Handle carved with rough buffalo head near point painted black and yellow, with man's head at middle painted black hair with yellow cheeks and mouth. Bottom part painted green with red design, and green and yellow bulbous form at end. Sections between carving and paint wrapped with bands of buckskin covered with brightly coloured beadwork. Three groups of feathers hang from ends of shaft and middle.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0045
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- Date
- 1960 – 1970
- Material
- wood; bone; skin; glass; feather
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0046
- Description
- Spear with carved bone head painted red at tip is fastened into split end of shaft which is made from tree branch with natural sharp bend into handle. End of handle, where bent branch joins, is two sided buffalo head with horns carved and painted black with red nose and red band beneath. Branch sha…
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- Title
- Spear
- Date
- 1960 – 1970
- Material
- wood; bone; skin; glass; feather
- Dimensions
- 15.0 x 83.0 cm
- Description
- Spear with carved bone head painted red at tip is fastened into split end of shaft which is made from tree branch with natural sharp bend into handle. End of handle, where bent branch joins, is two sided buffalo head with horns carved and painted black with red nose and red band beneath. Branch shaft has charred design of crosses, bars and circles along length, and is wrapped with a band of green and yellow beads over deerskin just below spearhead. A single eagle feather is tied at the middle of the handle.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- hunting
- animal
- buffalo
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0046
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- Date
- 1965 – 1970
- Material
- antler; stone; skin
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.0010
- Description
- Long sturdy piece of elk antler with double prong at end with a heavy large stone clubhead resting in the crotch. The clubhead is secured with a strip of cowhide across the top tied securely around the stone with a leather thong which passes through holes drilled at the end of each prong and knotte…
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- Title
- Club
- Date
- 1965 – 1970
- Material
- antler; stone; skin
- Dimensions
- 11.5 x 14.5 x 60.5 cm
- Description
- Long sturdy piece of elk antler with double prong at end with a heavy large stone clubhead resting in the crotch. The clubhead is secured with a strip of cowhide across the top tied securely around the stone with a leather thong which passes through holes drilled at the end of each prong and knotted around the shaft of the antler handle. A leather thong strap passes through a hole drilled at the end of the handle.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- warfare
- hunting
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.0010
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- Date
- 1965 – 1975
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.0019
- Description
- Traditional boomerang which is dark brown wood that has, on one side, been incised and notched to create background for emu, bird, decoration.
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- Title
- Boomerang
- Date
- 1965 – 1975
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 12.5 x 1.4 x 49.0 cm
- Description
- Traditional boomerang which is dark brown wood that has, on one side, been incised and notched to create background for emu, bird, decoration.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.0019
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- Date
- 1960
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.3002 a-c
- Description
- Three wooden boomerangs. The top of each is slightly convex and the bottom surface is flat. One arm of each boomerang is tilted at a slight angle.a) Dark wood with painted aboriginal designs, in brown, black, white and yellow. The designs include geometric designs on the tips and an insect, a pe…
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- Title
- Boomerang
- Date
- 1960
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 0.8 (a); 23.0(b); 1.5 (c) x 6.0 (a); 8.0 (b); 6.0 (c) x 50.0 (a); 53.0 (b); 48.0 (c) cm
- Description
- Three wooden boomerangs. The top of each is slightly convex and the bottom surface is flat. One arm of each boomerang is tilted at a slight angle.a) Dark wood with painted aboriginal designs, in brown, black, white and yellow. The designs include geometric designs on the tips and an insect, a person, and a kangaroo. The back is stamped “MADE IN AUSTRALIA BY Bill On--.”b) Dark wood with very detailed painted aboriginal designs on the front in black, red, white and yellow. The painting includes geometric and concentric designs, an emu, a turtle, and two people. At the centre bent it’s marked “from CHERBOURG ABORIGINAL SETTLEMENT 1960. QLD. AUST.” and the back is marked with pen ink “BILL GORHAM.”c) Light and dark wood decorated with a stylized kangaroo on the front in brown, black, yellow and white. “Darwin N.T.” is writtten with marker on the front. The tips are also painted with stripes and wavey lines. There are two illegible stamps on the back.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.3002 a-c
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- Date
- 1965 – 1975
- Material
- metal; bone
- Catalogue Number
- 104.50.0008
- Description
- Inuit woman's multi-purpose knife with triangular steel blade which has an curved edge. A steel shaft from blade to stubby, horizontal bone handle. "Canadian Eskimo Art" tag says "Community Baker Lake, Ulu, Eskimo woman's scraping tool".
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- Title
- Utility Knife
- Date
- 1965 – 1975
- Material
- metal; bone
- Dimensions
- 1.7 x 11.9 x 12.0 cm
- Description
- Inuit woman's multi-purpose knife with triangular steel blade which has an curved edge. A steel shaft from blade to stubby, horizontal bone handle. "Canadian Eskimo Art" tag says "Community Baker Lake, Ulu, Eskimo woman's scraping tool".
- Subject
- households
- hunting and fishing
- tanning
- Inuit
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.50.0008
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Kayak out of Dog's Reach
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- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ArS.04.01
- Description
- Black positive image, kayak is turned upside down on three paddles, front and back. A dog is standing underneath. Three black shapes around kayak - left, top and right. In lower black shape are 4 Inuit letters. On back tlc ink stamped: Povungnituk Cooperative Society Pr. Quebec Canada 1962Syll…
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- Title
- Kayak out of Dog's Reach
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 40.2 x 49.5 cm
- Description
- Black positive image, kayak is turned upside down on three paddles, front and back. A dog is standing underneath. Three black shapes around kayak - left, top and right. In lower black shape are 4 Inuit letters. On back tlc ink stamped: Povungnituk Cooperative Society Pr. Quebec Canada 1962Syllabics in image read “ᓴᔪᐃᓕ”. Bottom text reads “28/30 ᑯᓕᓴᔭᒧ ᓴᓇᓯᒪᔪ ᑲᔭ ᓂᕆᔭᐅᓂᐊᒋᒪ ᑭᒥᓄ ??ᓂᔭᐅᕙᑐ. ᓴᔪᐃᓕ ᐳᕕᓂᑐ ᑯᐃᐱ ᑲᓇᑕ 1962”
- Subject
- activity, hunting
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- ArS.04.01
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Harpooning a Walrus
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- Artist
- Isah Aviliaju
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- AvI.04.01
- Description
- A hunting scene. A hunter to the right of the picture is throwing a spear into the side of a walrus. A float is attached to the spear line. The images are in positive detail. The shape of the stone is indicated at the sides. A rectangular shape under the foot of the hunter has inscribed: Isah …
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- Artist
- Isah Aviliaju
- Title
- Harpooning a Walrus
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 43.5 x 61.0 cm
- Description
- A hunting scene. A hunter to the right of the picture is throwing a spear into the side of a walrus. A float is attached to the spear line. The images are in positive detail. The shape of the stone is indicated at the sides. A rectangular shape under the foot of the hunter has inscribed: Isah (Inuit symbols)Bottom text reads “20/30 ᑯᓕᓴᔭᒧ ᓴᓇᓯᒪᔪ ᐊᒍᑎ ᐊᐃᕕᒥ ᓇᐅᓕᓯᒪᔪ ᐊᐃᓴ ᐊᕕᓕᐊᔪ ᐳᕕᓂᑐ ᑯᐃᐱ ᑲᓇᑕ 1962”Text in image reads “ISAH ᐊᕕᓕᐊᔪ”
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- AvI.04.01
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- Artist
- Eejuka
- Date
- 1962
- Catalogue Number
- EeJ.06.01
- Description
- One piece, carved from narwhal tusk; knife blade and hilt 12.0 long with fish 7.9 butted up against centre of hilt. Carved fins and gills, round eyes inlaid with dark material. Knife and fish have a graceful curve.
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- Artist
- Eejuka
- Title
- Fish
- Date
- 1962
- Dimensions
- 19.9 x 3.7 cm
- Description
- One piece, carved from narwhal tusk; knife blade and hilt 12.0 long with fish 7.9 butted up against centre of hilt. Carved fins and gills, round eyes inlaid with dark material. Knife and fish have a graceful curve.
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- EeJ.06.01
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