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Date
1870 – 1972
Material
metal; sinew
Catalogue Number
104.35.3002
Description
Metal tube with six round holes down the length and rectangular opening near mouthpiece wrapped with sinew. Orange “ALBERTA STONEY INDIAN HAND CRAFTS MORLEY - ALBERTA” tag with CRW’s writing on reverse: “Born 1876 about Edwin Dixon died June 15 ‘72 The flute given moon on geese Mar 1st 1876 Old …
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Title
Flute
Date
1870 – 1972
Material
metal; sinew
Dimensions
1.4 x 1.4 x 30.8 cm
Description
Metal tube with six round holes down the length and rectangular opening near mouthpiece wrapped with sinew. Orange “ALBERTA STONEY INDIAN HAND CRAFTS MORLEY - ALBERTA” tag with CRW’s writing on reverse: “Born 1876 about Edwin Dixon died June 15 ‘72 The flute given moon on geese Mar 1st 1876 Old flute given by Hudson Bay Maria Lefthand.”
Subject
Indigenous, Stoney
Edwin Dixon
Mina Lefthand
music
ceremonial
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
104.35.3002
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Date
1898 – 1924
Material
tin; metal; paper;
Catalogue Number
105.03.0036
Description
Small red and gold tin box with a hinged lid containing spare gramophone needles, some of which are held by a small piece of cardboard. Printed on the red lid in gold is a dog looking into the bell of a gramophone with “FULL TONE NEEDLES 300” is printed above and “HIS MASTERS VOICE” below. Manufact…
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Title
Gramophone Needles
Date
1898 – 1924
Material
tin; metal; paper;
Dimensions
1.2 x 4.7 x 3.5 cm
Description
Small red and gold tin box with a hinged lid containing spare gramophone needles, some of which are held by a small piece of cardboard. Printed on the red lid in gold is a dog looking into the bell of a gramophone with “FULL TONE NEEDLES 300” is printed above and “HIS MASTERS VOICE” below. Manufacturer details printed on the bottom of the box, as well as the instruction to only use each needle once. Berliner Gram-O-Phone Co. is the Canadian branch of the of German-based company Deutsche Grammophon, founded by gramophone inventor Emile Berliner and his brother Joseph in Montreal in 1898. Over the next 10 years, Berliner Gram-O-Phone Co. would record and press records, as well as distribute various kinds of gramophones, in Montreal until it was sold in 1924 to the Victor Talking Machine Co.
Subject
music
music equipment
Credit
Gift of Bill Mather, Edmonton, 1991
Catalogue Number
105.03.0036
Images
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