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Bowl

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Date: 1880 – 1920

Material: metal, silver; lacquer; shell, abalone

Catalogue Number: 104.20.0459 a,b

Description: Two small matching square bowls, each with deep sides and a flat bottom. The bowls have a silver (?) lining on the inside with dark (green?) lacquer on the exterior. The front of each bowl is decorated with a floral design inlaid with pink and blue abalone. The bottom of one bowl (a) is marked …

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Title: Bowl

Date: 1880 – 1920

Material: metal, silver; lacquer; shell, abalone

Dimensions: 4.5 x 6.0 x 6.0 cm

Description: Two small matching square bowls, each with deep sides and a flat bottom. The bowls have a silver (?) lining on the inside with dark (green?) lacquer on the exterior. The front of each bowl is decorated with a floral design inlaid with pink and blue abalone. The bottom of one bowl (a) is marked “Fong’s Inn #141 $10.00”.

Subject: households; souvenirs; plants; flowers

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 104.20.0459 a,b

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Buffalo Dung

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Date: 1881

Material: grass; wood; paper; glass; metal;

Catalogue Number: 112.02.1005

Description: A framed (in a gold-coloured shadow box with a screwed-on wooden back) and glassed-in mound of bison dung surrounded by white tissue paper. There is a screwed-in hook at the top of the box for hanging. Au verso written in pen “THIS 100% PURE BUFFALO CHIP WAS CREATED ON THE PLAINS OF ALBERTA - ABOU…

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Title: Buffalo Dung

Date: 1881

Material: grass; wood; paper; glass; metal;

Dimensions: 24.0 (frame 34.0) x 20.0 (frame 29.0) cm

Description: A framed (in a gold-coloured shadow box with a screwed-on wooden back) and glassed-in mound of bison dung surrounded by white tissue paper. There is a screwed-in hook at the top of the box for hanging. Au verso written in pen “THIS 100% PURE BUFFALO CHIP WAS CREATED ON THE PLAINS OF ALBERTA - ABOUT 30 MILES S-E OF RED DEER - ON OR ABOUT THE 24TH DAY OF JULY 1881 - PRESERVED BY THE KINDNESS OF THE ABERHART GOVERNMENT”. Signed in pencil in script “Pat Lawrence P-L Ranches Red Deer”. On viewer’s left there is a white rectangular paper sticker with a red border, above this printed in pen “CERTIFIED GENUINE” and written on the paper, extending onto the wood, a signature in pen ESMeaueug?? underlined.

Subject: plants; feces; buffalo; Nick Morant

Credit: Gift of Nicholas Morant, Banff, 2006

Catalogue Number: 112.02.1005

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Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1974

Author: Hellson, John C

Publisher: Ottawa : National Museums of Canada

Call Number: 04.1 H36

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Author: Hellson, John C

Responsibility: by John C. Hellson and Morgan Gadd

Publisher: Ottawa : National Museums of Canada

Published Date: 1974

Physical Description: iii, 138p. : ill., port

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Plants, Edible; Plants, Medicinal

Notes: Bibliography

Accession Number: 2729

Call Number: 04.1 H36

Collection: Archives Library

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How to know the lichens

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1979

Author: Hale, Mason E.

Publisher: Dubuque, Iowa : Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers

Call Number: 04.1 H13l

Author: Hale, Mason E.

Publisher: Dubuque, Iowa : Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers

Published Date: 1979

Physical Description: xi, 246 pages : illustrations ; 10 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Lichens; Botany; Plants; Science

Contents: Preface -- What are lichens -- How to make chemical tests -- How to collect and study lichens -- How to use the pictured key -- General references -- Pictured key to the foliose and fruticose lichens -- List of synonyms and incorrect names -- Phylogentic list of genera and families -- Acknowledgments for illustration -- index and pictured glossary.

Notes: Ben Gadd Personal Library

ISBN: 0697047636

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 04.1 H13l

Collection: Archives Library

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How to know the mosses and liverworts

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1979

Author: Conrad, Henry S.

Publisher: Dubuque, Iowa : Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers

Edition: 2nd

Call Number: 04.1 C76m

Author: Conrad, Henry S.

Edition: 2nd

Publisher: Dubuque, Iowa : Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers

Published Date: 1979

Physical Description: xi, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Mosses; Liverworts; Botany; Plants; Science

Contents: Preface -- About mosses and liverworts -- Classification -- How to study bryophytes -- General references -- How to use the keys -- Pictured-key to the bryophytes of North America -- Musci, the mosses -- Class I. anthrocerotae, the hornworts -- Class II. Hepaticae, the liverworts -- List of synonyms -- Index and pictured-glossary.

Notes: Ben Gadd Personal Library

ISBN: 0697047687

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 04.1 C76m

Collection: Archives Library

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Mr. Jackson's mushrooms

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: c1979

Author: Jackson, Henry

Publisher: Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada, National Museums of Canada

Call Number: ND1460 M8 J3

Author: Jackson, Henry

Responsibility: [Henry Jackson] ; edited and with an introduction by Mimi Cazort

Publisher: Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada, National Museums of Canada

Published Date: c1979

Physical Description: 161p., 42 leaves of plates : ports.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Mushrooms; Plants in art

Notes: Bibliography p.159; Index of works illustrated p.161

ISBN: 0-88884-364-X

Accession Number: 12,500

Call Number: ND1460 M8 J3

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Collection: Art Library

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Pitcher

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Date: 1880 – 1920

Material: ceramic

Catalogue Number: 104.20.0131

Description: A squat round jug with the lip distorted to form a pouring spout. The pitcher has a loop handle with a thumb tab attached opposite to the spout. The pitcher is white with a relief design painted over with gold and shades of green. A vine with half-green, half-gold leaves and gold berries over a …

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Title: Pitcher

Date: 1880 – 1920

Material: ceramic

Dimensions: 10.5 cm

Description: A squat round jug with the lip distorted to form a pouring spout. The pitcher has a loop handle with a thumb tab attached opposite to the spout. The pitcher is white with a relief design painted over with gold and shades of green. A vine with half-green, half-gold leaves and gold berries over a background texture of scattered comma shapes decorates the top of the pitcher, beneath a narrow band of large dots at the rim. The base of the jug is painted green and has green leaves scattered about. A flower-like design is painted on the thumb tab of the handle. The jug is marked “Sporting Dogs”, “Old Leeds” and “Paragon, England PC”.

Subject: households; plants; flowers

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 104.20.0131

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Plants

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Part Of: Douglas Leighton fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of photographs of Plants in British Columbia and Alberta.

Date Range: 1970; 1978; 1979; 1980 - 1991; 2000

Reference Code: V222 / V / 1 / NS - 1 to 124

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Transparency

Part Of: Douglas Leighton fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M133; V222

Series: V222 / V : Flora

Sous-Fonds: V222

Accession Number: 2020.24

Reference Code: V222 / V / 1 / NS - 1 to 124

GMD: Photograph; Transparency

Date Range: 1970; 1978; 1979; 1980 - 1991; 2000

Physical Description: 124 photographs : col. slides ; 35 mm

Scope & Content: File consists of photographs of Plants in British Columbia and Alberta.

Name Access: Leighton, Douglas

Subject Access: Plants; Flowers; Trees; Fruit trees; Grasses

Geographic Access: Cranbrook, BC; Morley, AB; Banff National Park; Cochrane; Elk Island National Park; Waterton National Park; Slave Lake, AB; Kananaskis, AB; Dinosaur Provincial Park; Kaslo, BC

Language: English

Creator: Douglas Leighton

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Plants

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Part Of: Douglas Leighton fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of photographs of Plants in British Columbia and Alberta. Pants included are

Date Range: 1977 - 1983; 1988

Reference Code: V222 / V / 2 / NS - 1 to 117

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Transparency

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Part Of: Douglas Leighton fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M133; V222

Series: V222 / V : Flora

Sous-Fonds: V222

Accession Number: 2020.24

Reference Code: V222 / V / 2 / NS - 1 to 117

GMD: Photograph; Transparency

Date Range: 1977 - 1983; 1988

Physical Description: 117 photographs : col. slides ; 35 mm

Scope & Content: File consists of photographs of Plants in British Columbia and Alberta. Pants included are

Name Access: Leighton, Douglas

Subject Access: Plants; Flowers; Trees; Lichens; Grasses; Shrubs

Geographic Access: Banff National Park; Cranbrook, BC; Nakusp, BC; Manning Provincial Park; Kamloops, BC; Winlaw, BC; Radium, BC; Kootenay National Park; Canmore, AB; Chase, BC; New Denver, BC