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Date
1945 – 1955
Material
fibre; paper; wood; plastic
Catalogue Number
107.01.0163 a-l
Description
A set of twelve pipe cleaner figures representing Christmas carolers. All except one on round cardboard disc bases, dressed for winter, and playing various musical instruments, singing, or playing. Heads of wooden beads. (a) male caroler, holding grey book. (b) female caroler, with green coat hol…
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Title
Christmas Figurine Set
Date
1945 – 1955
Material
fibre; paper; wood; plastic
Dimensions
23.0 x 5.0 cm
Description
A set of twelve pipe cleaner figures representing Christmas carolers. All except one on round cardboard disc bases, dressed for winter, and playing various musical instruments, singing, or playing. Heads of wooden beads. (a) male caroler, holding grey book. (b) female caroler, with green coat holding red book. (c) conductor, standing on log wielding baton. (d) bass fiddle player, dressed in red. (e) violinist, dressed in green. (f) flutist, dressed in white sweater. (g) clarinetist, dressed in yellow sweater. (h) female bystander, in red coat with white muff. (i) same as (h). (j) boy carrying Christmas tree. (k)bystander leaning on lamp post, dressed in red. (l) boy pulling red sled, on rectangular cardboard base.
Subject
households
decorative
miniatures
Christmas
Heddie's Little People
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
107.01.0163 a-l
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Artist
Mary Ogden Abbott (1894 – 1981, American)
Date
1970
Medium
on wood
Catalogue Number
AoM.06.01
Description
A carved relief of a pack train going back and forth from side to side up a mountain.
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Artist
Mary Ogden Abbott (1894 – 1981, American)
Title
The Steep Ascent
Date
1970
Medium
on wood
Dimensions
94.0 x 66.0 cm
Description
A carved relief of a pack train going back and forth from side to side up a mountain.
Subject
landscape
mountains
animals
packhorses
people
Credit
Gift of Mary Ogden Abbott, USA, 1971
Catalogue Number
AoM.06.01
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Children frightened by birds and dog

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Artist
Syollie Amituk (1936 – 1986, Canadian)
Date
1962
Medium
ink on paper
Catalogue Number
ArS.04.02
Description
black and white images; main image has a black base with Inuit writing and a dog silhouetted in white; on this base are four igloos, on proper right of image has 3 children inside , proper left has one larger child that apperas frightened; above the ingloos is another scene of an igloo with 2 peopl…
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Artist
Syollie Amituk (1936 – 1986, Canadian)
Title
Children frightened by birds and dog
Date
1962
Medium
ink on paper
Dimensions
61.0 x 74.5 cm
Description
black and white images; main image has a black base with Inuit writing and a dog silhouetted in white; on this base are four igloos, on proper right of image has 3 children inside , proper left has one larger child that apperas frightened; above the ingloos is another scene of an igloo with 2 people and a dog. above 3 birds are flying. 2 birds are white with black necks and heads. the other is black with white spots. Text in image reads as follows:Line 1: ᑕᑯᐊ ᐅᐱᐊᓗᒥ ᐅᐸᑐ(ᐳ?) ᑭᕋᕕ ᒪᕈ. ᑕᐃᒪ ᐅᐸᑐ(ᐳ?)ᓂ ᑕᑯᐊ ᑕᑯᕋᒥ ᐊᐃᑕ(ᐸ?)ᒐ ᑭᒥᒥ ᐱᒍᓂᔪ.Line 2: ᐊᒪᓗ ᑕᑯᐊ ᑲᑕᒥᑐ ᑭᒥᒥ ᐃᔪᔪ (circled: ᓴᔪᐃᓕ ᐊᐅᐳ) ᐊᓄᐃᓗ ᓂᕕᒐᔪ Line 3:ᐊᒪᓗ ᑕᓇ ᐃᓗᒥᑐ ᑕᑯᕋᒥ ᑭᕋᕕᓂ ᐅᒥᑐᐃᔪᕕᓂᐅᔪᓂ ᑲᑕᑐ ᑕᐃᒪᑕᕋBottom text reads “21/30 ᑯᓕᓴᔭᒪ ᓴᓇᓯᒪᔪ . ᐃᓄᐃ ᐊᓂᕋᒥᓂᑐ. ᐅᑭᐅᒥ ᑕᒐ. ᓴᔪᐃᓕ ᐊᐅᐸ ᐳᕕᓂᑐ. ᑯᐃᐱᒃ 1962”
Subject
igloo
bird
people
inuk
inuit
wolf
dog
outdoor scene
Credit
Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
Catalogue Number
ArS.04.02
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Japanese Woman and Child

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Artist
Watanabe Bunzo (1853 – 1942, Japanese)
Date
1882
Medium
ink and colour on paper
Catalogue Number
BuW.05.01
Description
Frontispiece Japan Day by Day Volume I by Edward S. Morse. A farmyard scene. A woman wearing a grey kimono, blue sash, carries a baby on her back, he is dressed in blue and red and has a small kite in his left hand. She is looking down at a rooster who with a hen behind him are looking at three egg…
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Artist
Watanabe Bunzo (1853 – 1942, Japanese)
Title
Japanese Woman and Child
Date
1882
Medium
ink and colour on paper
Dimensions
36.1 x 25.2 cm
Description
Frontispiece Japan Day by Day Volume I by Edward S. Morse. A farmyard scene. A woman wearing a grey kimono, blue sash, carries a baby on her back, he is dressed in blue and red and has a small kite in his left hand. She is looking down at a rooster who with a hen behind him are looking at three eggs on the ground. Five figures in background, houses to right centre, a snow-capped mountain is in background, sky is blue with yellowish clouds. Written on back: Mrs. Russell Robb Concord, Mass.
Subject
farmyard
Mount Fujijama
buildings
people
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
BuW.05.01
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Indians Returning to Camp

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Artist
Norah Drummond-Davies (1862 – 1949, Canadian)
Date
n.d.
Medium
print on paper
Catalogue Number
DmN.04.03
Description
A group of people encamped near a stream. On the left a woman and very young child are sitting in front of a teepee, pine forest beyond; two pups are playing with adult dog looking on. Middle is a line of teepees, a chief in a trailing headdress and an Indian in a loincloth are looking towards two …
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Artist
Norah Drummond-Davies (1862 – 1949, Canadian)
Title
Indians Returning to Camp
Date
n.d.
Medium
print on paper
Dimensions
13.7 x 35.2 cm
Description
A group of people encamped near a stream. On the left a woman and very young child are sitting in front of a teepee, pine forest beyond; two pups are playing with adult dog looking on. Middle is a line of teepees, a chief in a trailing headdress and an Indian in a loincloth are looking towards two Indians on horseback people up and embankment from the stream. Right hand side there are three Indians on horseback starting to cross the stream. Blue and mauve foothills and a pink, orange and yellow sky in the background that has been hand tinted.
Subject
landscape
teepees
animals, dogs and horses
people
Indigenous
Credit
Gift of Helen Shandruk, Banff, 1995
Catalogue Number
DmN.04.03
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Freshfield Icefield from Coronation Mountain

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Artist
Bruno Engler (1915 – 2001, Canadian)
Date
1946
Medium
silver gelatin on paper
Catalogue Number
EnB.18.02
Description
A black and white photographic positive, top fifth of picture is the sky with some white clouds, the rest of the picture is of mountains with barren, craggy rocks in the foreground with an icefield behind that, in the bottom left of the picture are mountain climbers
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Artist
Bruno Engler (1915 – 2001, Canadian)
Title
Freshfield Icefield from Coronation Mountain
Date
1946
Medium
silver gelatin on paper
Dimensions
48.9 x 39.2 cm
Description
A black and white photographic positive, top fifth of picture is the sky with some white clouds, the rest of the picture is of mountains with barren, craggy rocks in the foreground with an icefield behind that, in the bottom left of the picture are mountain climbers
Subject
landscape, mountain
Coronation Mountain
people
activity, climbing
Credit
Purchased from Bruno Engler, Harvie Heights, 1985
Catalogue Number
EnB.18.02
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Artist
Linda Evans (1949 – , Canadian)
Date
1987
Medium
ink on paper
Catalogue Number
EvL.04.05
Description
The Banff train station is in the foreground with a Mountie directing a tourist. In the backgound is the Brewster bus station and to the right is a moose and beaver dam in Vermilion Lake. The many buildings from the town of Banff are in the background along with people engaged in various activities…
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Artist
Linda Evans (1949 – , Canadian)
Title
Banff, Canada
Date
1987
Medium
ink on paper
Dimensions
61.0 x 45.0 cm
Description
The Banff train station is in the foreground with a Mountie directing a tourist. In the backgound is the Brewster bus station and to the right is a moose and beaver dam in Vermilion Lake. The many buildings from the town of Banff are in the background along with people engaged in various activities such as fishing and boating on the Bow River, bicycling etc.. The upper half is Rundle Mountain and the Banff Springs Hotel and the Sulphur Mountain Gondola Lift.
Subject
landscape
town
Banff
road
mountains
buildings
transportation
train
bus
automobile
carriage
animal
horse
people
tourist
Mountie
Credit
Gift of Linda Evans, Canmore, 1993
Catalogue Number
EvL.04.05
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Artist
Nicolai Fechin (1881 – 1955, American)
Date
c. 1927
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
FeN.02.01
Description
Two children play in a courtyard, buildings surround them except for foreground. Two horses are standing outside a building at right centre.
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Artist
Nicolai Fechin (1881 – 1955, American)
Title
A Mexican Yard
Date
c. 1927
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
75.0 x 90.2 cm
Description
Two children play in a courtyard, buildings surround them except for foreground. Two horses are standing outside a building at right centre.
Subject
architecture
rural
people
animals
American South West
N. Fechin
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
FeN.02.01
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Night Rain at Yanagihara

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Artist
Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847 – 1915, Japanese)
Date
1882
Medium
woodblock on paper
Catalogue Number
KiY.04.03
Description
dark, rainy street scene with people carrying umbrellas and lanterns, with rickshaw and dog in the foreground
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Artist
Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847 – 1915, Japanese)
Title
Night Rain at Yanagihara
Date
1882
Medium
woodblock on paper
Dimensions
24.5 x 36.6 cm
Description
dark, rainy street scene with people carrying umbrellas and lanterns, with rickshaw and dog in the foreground
Subject
people
dog
night
rain
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
KiY.04.03
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Artist
Ernie Kroeger (1954 – , Canadian)
Date
1993
Medium
silver print on paper on board
Catalogue Number
KrE.18.01
Description
A cloudy sky top third of picture, large boulders of ice in foreground on rocky ground. Snow covered mountains in background. A figure is off to left of centre on top of large ice boulder.
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Artist
Ernie Kroeger (1954 – , Canadian)
Title
Ship Rock
Date
1993
Medium
silver print on paper on board
Dimensions
86.7 x 205.7 cm
Description
A cloudy sky top third of picture, large boulders of ice in foreground on rocky ground. Snow covered mountains in background. A figure is off to left of centre on top of large ice boulder.
Subject
landscape
mountain
Canadian Rockies
people
Credit
Purchased from Ernie Kroeger, Banff, 1993
Catalogue Number
KrE.18.01
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