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Miniature, Ironmonger Shop

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Date
1870 – 1890
Material
wood; fibre; paper; ceramic; metal
Catalogue Number
105.02.0114
Description
Japanese ironmonger shop, fully furnished. Wooden base 3.2 high forms floor, display area centre of floor, 19.0 x 16.5 x 10.6. 3 horizontal poles attached to both sides of the display shelf. Display area has green covered steps, black wall with items hung on it, small wooden shelf for more display…
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Title
Miniature, Ironmonger Shop
Date
1870 – 1890
Material
wood; fibre; paper; ceramic; metal
Dimensions
23.0 x 21.3 x 33.2 cm
Description
Japanese ironmonger shop, fully furnished. Wooden base 3.2 high forms floor, display area centre of floor, 19.0 x 16.5 x 10.6. 3 horizontal poles attached to both sides of the display shelf. Display area has green covered steps, black wall with items hung on it, small wooden shelf for more display. Shopkeeper, man dressed in brown grey kimono, brown apron, yellow fabric stuffed in front, is kneeling on the floor. Head is partly shaved with along top knot. Fine china face and hands, hands on lap. Items for sale: various kinds of cooking knives, scissors, teapots, cauldrons, rice cookers, basins, hoes, scythes, altar pieces for buddhism and shintoism worship, cooking stoves, fish broiling metal wire grills, shovels.
Subject
households
miniatures
business
figure
male
religious
Japanese
Edward S. Morse
Edith Morse Robb
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
105.02.0114
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Miniature, Basketry Shop

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Date
1870 – 1890
Material
wood; grass; fibre; ceramic
Catalogue Number
105.02.0115
Description
Japanese basket shop, fully furnished. Base which forms floor of shop is 33.3x21.4x3.0, woven mat floor is an off white colour. Shop walls are bamboo rails and woven bamboo, 18.0x28.0x8.3. The sun shade is supported by 4 vertical bamboo poles. Shopkeeper middle aged man, top of head shaven with re…
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Title
Miniature, Basketry Shop
Date
1870 – 1890
Material
wood; grass; fibre; ceramic
Description
Japanese basket shop, fully furnished. Base which forms floor of shop is 33.3x21.4x3.0, woven mat floor is an off white colour. Shop walls are bamboo rails and woven bamboo, 18.0x28.0x8.3. The sun shade is supported by 4 vertical bamboo poles. Shopkeeper middle aged man, top of head shaven with rest of hair pulled back into a topknot, "5 o'clock shadow". Dark kimono, woven plaid belt. He is sitting on the floor, yoga position, open hands, extended. Items for sale: 1 big woven chicken coop, 2 medium sized chicken coops, 1 big woven basket with one end open for chaffiing, 1 medium sized flat sparrow coop, 3 smaller flat sparrow coops, several carrying baskets, sieves of various gratings, various wooden dustpans, 1 fish basket, 3 hand brushes, scrub brushes. The shopkeeper was probably a basket weaver as well.
Subject
households
miniatures
business
figure
male
animal
bird
chicken
sparrow
Japanese
Edward S. Morse
Edith Morse Robb
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
105.02.0115
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Date
1870 – 1890
Material
paper; wood
Catalogue Number
107.01.0141
Description
Japanese picture screen, folding. Each panel 12.0 x 5.5. Six panels made of thin wood, paper glued front and back to form hinges for folding. Backing is striped red and cream. Front depicting cherry blossom viewing, lady on the left is playing the fishing game ? A man is standing up, a girl in wai…
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Title
Miniature Screen
Date
1870 – 1890
Material
paper; wood
Dimensions
12.0 cm
Description
Japanese picture screen, folding. Each panel 12.0 x 5.5. Six panels made of thin wood, paper glued front and back to form hinges for folding. Backing is striped red and cream. Front depicting cherry blossom viewing, lady on the left is playing the fishing game ? A man is standing up, a girl in waiting is holding something in her hands, a mistress is sitting. Checkerboard design encompasses entire picture.
Subject
Whyte home
households
decorative
miniatures
figure
female
male
Japanese
Edward S. Morse
Edith Morse Robb
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
107.01.0141
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Date
1870 – 1890
Material
paper; wood; fibre
Catalogue Number
107.01.0142 a-c
Description
Japanese picture scrolls:(a) 21.5 x 6.0, green scroll, picture 12.8 x 5.3 of artist's supplies, 2 peacock feathers, sumi brushes in containers, sumi grinding stone are the supplies depicted, string 12.5 attached to top.(b) 21.5 x 6.0, brown scroll, picture 13.0 x 5.3, seated man facing left.…
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Title
Miniature Scroll
Date
1870 – 1890
Material
paper; wood; fibre
Dimensions
21.5 x 6.0 cm
Description
Japanese picture scrolls:(a) 21.5 x 6.0, green scroll, picture 12.8 x 5.3 of artist's supplies, 2 peacock feathers, sumi brushes in containers, sumi grinding stone are the supplies depicted, string 12.5 attached to top.(b) 21.5 x 6.0, brown scroll, picture 13.0 x 5.3, seated man facing left. Japanese writing top right: 'toku gava ni-sei' 2nd generation Tokuogawa honourable minamoto-no-tada, 10.5 string. (c) 17.5 x 5.2, patterned purple scroll, silver highlights, picture 6.2 x 3.2 of goddess Kannon . Kanlyn-Zan, Konlyn mountain, asakusa-dera, temple asakusa, black and white woven string 15.0.
Subject
Whyte home
households
decorative
miniatures
artists
figure
male
Japanese
Edward S. Morse
Edith Morse Robb
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
107.01.0142 a-c
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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.
Subject
Indigenous
hunting
souvenir
buffalo
figure
male
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
104.05.0045
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Date
1890 – 1930
Material
ceramic
Catalogue Number
104.19.0059
Description
Spheroid container with small neck and opening topped with loose fitting, domed lid which rests over jar neck. Overall white glaze with landscape including three figures, and lid has single figure on it. Calligraphy painted on bottom which has a trimmed foot. Pink and turquoise scroll decoration on…
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Title
Food Storage Jar
Date
1890 – 1930
Material
ceramic
Dimensions
10.8 x 9.0 cm
Description
Spheroid container with small neck and opening topped with loose fitting, domed lid which rests over jar neck. Overall white glaze with landscape including three figures, and lid has single figure on it. Calligraphy painted on bottom which has a trimmed foot. Pink and turquoise scroll decoration on jar near neck possibly created with wax resist technique.
Subject
households
figure
male
female
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
104.19.0059
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Date
1870 – 1890
Material
ceramic
Catalogue Number
104.20.0264
Description
Porcelain dish with gold, red, green over glaze enamels. Design of man with broom and keg of sake on the inside of bowl. Trimmed foot, cobalt border design.
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Title
Sauce Dish
Date
1870 – 1890
Material
ceramic
Dimensions
2.7 x 6.5 cm
Description
Porcelain dish with gold, red, green over glaze enamels. Design of man with broom and keg of sake on the inside of bowl. Trimmed foot, cobalt border design.
Subject
households
Edith Morse Robb
Edward S. Morse
figure
male
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
104.20.0264
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Date
1870 – 1890
Material
ceramic
Catalogue Number
104.20.0265
Description
Porcelain with cobalt slip, transparent over glaze. 2 men and donkey. Trimmed foot, signed on bottom.
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Title
Teacup
Date
1870 – 1890
Material
ceramic
Dimensions
4.3 x 6.2 cm
Description
Porcelain with cobalt slip, transparent over glaze. 2 men and donkey. Trimmed foot, signed on bottom.
Subject
households
Edith Morse Robb
Edward S. Morse
animal
donkey
figure
male
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
104.20.0265
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Date
1960 – 1970
Material
skin; hair; glass; fibre
Catalogue Number
108.05.0020
Description
A firmly stuffed Indigenous doll wearing shirt and leggings with brown fur band around head. Head is of brown fabric with circular piece of buckskin and beaded features sewn on to represent face. Waist length horsehair braids tied at bottom with buckskin. Simple shirt with fringe at yoke across fro…
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Title
Doll
Date
1960 – 1970
Material
skin; hair; glass; fibre
Dimensions
33.0 x 7.0 x 27.0 cm
Description
A firmly stuffed Indigenous doll wearing shirt and leggings with brown fur band around head. Head is of brown fabric with circular piece of buckskin and beaded features sewn on to represent face. Waist length horsehair braids tied at bottom with buckskin. Simple shirt with fringe at yoke across front and back, and simple leggings fringed at the sides. Plain moccasins sewn on to feet, and hands separate from arms sewn to bottoms of sleeves and cut out in shape of fingers and thumbs. Stuffed underbody of white fabric with printed blue sailboats.
Subject
Indigenous
playthings
children
figure
male
beadwork
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
108.05.0020
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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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