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Lutra Canadensis Pelt
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact112.01.0018
- Date
- 1920 – 1940
- Material
- skin
- Catalogue Number
- 112.01.0018
- Description
- A tanned flat open black river otter pelt with short thick glossy dark brown, almost black, fur becoming silvery along the edges (belly and throat). There is a long tail thick at the base and the left rear paw remains attached. There are many small holes in the head (eyes, ears, etc). A tag atta…
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- Title
- Lutra Canadensis Pelt
- Date
- 1920 – 1940
- Material
- skin
- Dimensions
- 40.0 x 128.0 cm
- Description
- A tanned flat open black river otter pelt with short thick glossy dark brown, almost black, fur becoming silvery along the edges (belly and throat). There is a long tail thick at the base and the left rear paw remains attached. There are many small holes in the head (eyes, ears, etc). A tag attached is marked “XLU-PB $100.00 Black otter - very rare.” The head is marked, with pencil, “LU.PB” and the body has “Bliss & Cohn Ltd. --nnipeg Man.” stamped inside a diamond shape with “WM”? perforated in the tail.
- Subject
- households
- animals, river otter
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 112.01.0018
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Two Otters Playing
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcad.06.01
- Date
- 1966
- Catalogue Number
- CaD.06.01
- Description
- A single piece of driftwood, light brown, highly polished in an exagerated horseshoe shape, carved to signify two otters at play. The tails touch the base their heads and forelegs swerve upwards into a graceful arch. A laminated piece of wood is shaped to form a base for one hind leg of one otter a…
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- Title
- Two Otters Playing
- Date
- 1966
- Dimensions
- 30 x 40 x 67 cm
- Description
- A single piece of driftwood, light brown, highly polished in an exagerated horseshoe shape, carved to signify two otters at play. The tails touch the base their heads and forelegs swerve upwards into a graceful arch. A laminated piece of wood is shaped to form a base for one hind leg of one otter and the base for the back/rump of the other. This smaller piece is attached to a flat U-shaped piece of wood which is the base.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- CaD.06.01
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