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3 Decorated Eggs
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactrea.22.01
- Artist
- Anne Rebeyka
- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- watercolour on ordinary hen's eggs
- Catalogue Number
- ReA.22.01
- Description
- 3 ordinary hen's eggs decorated in the Ukrainian tradition.
- Artist
- Anne Rebeyka
- Title
- 3 Decorated Eggs
- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- watercolour on ordinary hen's eggs
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 4.3 cm
- Description
- 3 ordinary hen's eggs decorated in the Ukrainian tradition.
- Credit
- Gift of Unknown, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- ReA.22.01
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3 Decorated Eggs
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactrea.22.02
- Artist
- Anne Rebeyka
- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- watercolour on ordinary hen's eggs
- Catalogue Number
- ReA.22.02
- Description
- 3 ordinary hen's eggs decorated in the Ukrainian tradition.
- Artist
- Anne Rebeyka
- Title
- 3 Decorated Eggs
- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- watercolour on ordinary hen's eggs
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 4.3 cm
- Description
- 3 ordinary hen's eggs decorated in the Ukrainian tradition.
- Credit
- Gift of Unknown, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- ReA.22.02
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3 Decorated Eggs
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactrea.22.03
- Artist
- Anne Rebeyka
- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- watercolour on ordinary hen's eggs
- Catalogue Number
- ReA.22.03
- Description
- 3 ordinary hen's eggs decorated in the Ukrainian tradition.
- Artist
- Anne Rebeyka
- Title
- 3 Decorated Eggs
- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- watercolour on ordinary hen's eggs
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 4.3 cm
- Description
- 3 ordinary hen's eggs decorated in the Ukrainian tradition.
- Credit
- Gift of Unknown, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- ReA.22.03
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Big Bear Medicine
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactaud.12.01
- Date
- 1998
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- AuD.12.01
- Description
- A large painting of an Indigenous dressed as a bear. The man’s face is visible through the mouth of the bear fur that covers him. The man’s eyes are hidden by shadows. Yellow and black paint is on the rest of his face. In the claws, the man holds a wand-like stick, at the tip of which are four …
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- Title
- Big Bear Medicine
- Date
- 1998
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- 92.5 x 92.5 cm
- Description
- A large painting of an Indigenous dressed as a bear. The man’s face is visible through the mouth of the bear fur that covers him. The man’s eyes are hidden by shadows. Yellow and black paint is on the rest of his face. In the claws, the man holds a wand-like stick, at the tip of which are four feathers. These are in the blc of the image. On either side of the bear’s head are patches of aquamarine.
- Subject
- religious
- Indigenous
- animal
- bear
- Credit
- Purchased from Bernie Makokis, St. Paul, 2001
- Catalogue Number
- AuD.12.01
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Calumet Fragment
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact109.02.3047
- Date
- 1972
- Material
- stone
- Catalogue Number
- 109.02.3047
- Description
- Brown and black carved pipe bowl. There are two notes that accompany this object, both with CRW writing. One note on a brown envelope: “Doug Light These belong to Joe Abraham of Big Horn. They are very old - perhaps before real pipes - belonged to his great grandmother - the face in the rock is…
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- Title
- Calumet Fragment
- Date
- 1972
- Material
- stone
- Dimensions
- 5.5 x 3.0 x 7.0 cm
- Description
- Brown and black carved pipe bowl. There are two notes that accompany this object, both with CRW writing. One note on a brown envelope: “Doug Light These belong to Joe Abraham of Big Horn. They are very old - perhaps before real pipes - belonged to his great grandmother - the face in the rock is also unusual - the nose fell off & they tried to glue it on - Joe would like to know the value of it. Catharine Whyte Banff.” Inside this evelope are some other slips of paper: a blue “Glenbow-Alberta Institute Routing Slip” to “JOHN HELLSON CARDSTON, ALTA 252-1946”, and two yellow “Alberta Stoney Indian Hand Crafts” tags with “Joe Abraham very old - pipe - very old - when no pipes at all - Laurier Hunter” and “Joe Abraham June 26 ‘72 very old don’t know history nose fell off tried to glue it.”
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 109.02.3047
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Chinaman's Peak: Walking the Mountain
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwop.25.01
- Date
- 1992
- Medium
- audio visual recording on VHS video tape
- Catalogue Number
- WoP.25.01
- Description
- Walking the Mountain feeds hungry ghosts of those who came before. Specifically honoured in this work are the spirits of the Chinese pioneers, the railway workers of the late 1800's, the miners at the turn-of-the-century, the sojourner Hoy Ming Wong, 1896 - 1978 and the suicides of Kenneth Fletcher…
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- Title
- Chinaman's Peak: Walking the Mountain
- Date
- 1992
- Medium
- audio visual recording on VHS video tape
- Dimensions
- 20.2 x 12.0 cm
- Description
- Walking the Mountain feeds hungry ghosts of those who came before. Specifically honoured in this work are the spirits of the Chinese pioneers, the railway workers of the late 1800's, the miners at the turn-of-the-century, the sojourner Hoy Ming Wong, 1896 - 1978 and the suicides of Kenneth Fletcher, 1954 - 1978 and Paul Speed, 1967 - 1991. These people are brought together through death and the communal act of remembering. Paul Wong, Chinaman's Peak: Walking the Mountain
- Credit
- Purchased from Video Out, Vancouver, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- WoP.25.01
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Christmas Prints
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactnij.04.01-nij.04.02
- Date
- 1971 – 1972
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- NiJ.04.01-NiJ.04.02
- Description
- NiJ.04.01 is Nuliyuk, the Eskimo Goddess is a dry process print of a drawing, signed vertically on left J.Nicoll, 1971. NiJ.04.02 is Old Guild House of the Wool Weavers, Florence; engraving print, signed brc. J.Nicoll 1972. Both were Xmas cards sent to Catharine by the artist.
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- Title
- Christmas Prints
- Date
- 1971 – 1972
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 15.0 x 14.5 cm
- Description
- NiJ.04.01 is Nuliyuk, the Eskimo Goddess is a dry process print of a drawing, signed vertically on left J.Nicoll, 1971. NiJ.04.02 is Old Guild House of the Wool Weavers, Florence; engraving print, signed brc. J.Nicoll 1972. Both were Xmas cards sent to Catharine by the artist.
- Subject
- religious, Christmas
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- NiJ.04.01-NiJ.04.02
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Figurine Group
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact107.01.0091
- 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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- Date
- 1973
- Material
- stone
- Catalogue Number
- 109.02.3039 a,b
- Description
- Two rocks with CRW writing on a yellow tag “Jack Labelle June 1973” and a piece of paper, also with CRW writing: “Brought by Jack Labelle. by Chiniki old village. old campgds hardly see it but saw tin. about 4-6 m down June 4 1973. Looking with a pick. found tomahawk rock & stone.” a) Heart-shaped …
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- Title
- Incense Rock
- Date
- 1973
- Material
- stone
- Dimensions
- 2.0 (a); 3.5 (b) x 10.2 (a); 4.6 (b) x 10.5 (a); 9.0 (b) cm
- Description
- Two rocks with CRW writing on a yellow tag “Jack Labelle June 1973” and a piece of paper, also with CRW writing: “Brought by Jack Labelle. by Chiniki old village. old campgds hardly see it but saw tin. about 4-6 m down June 4 1973. Looking with a pick. found tomahawk rock & stone.” a) Heart-shaped tomohawk stone, grey with white spots.b) White and grey rock with hole in white side.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- Stoney
- Jack Labelle
- ceremonial
- religious
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 109.02.3039 a,b
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- Date
- 1972
- Material
- stone
- Catalogue Number
- 109.02.3040 a,b
- Description
- Two rocks with CRW writing on tag: “Jack Labelle will pay back by end of Nov 1972 or these are mine,” with “Jack Labelle” on reverse along with CRW writing: “probably belonged to David Simeon.” The large rock (a) has a rounded shape and another type of rock included in an indentation. The rock is…
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- Title
- Incense Rock
- Date
- 1972
- Material
- stone
- Dimensions
- 10.0 (a); 4.0 (b) x 8.6 (a); 4.0 (b) x 16.4 (a); 10.0 (b) cm
- Description
- Two rocks with CRW writing on tag: “Jack Labelle will pay back by end of Nov 1972 or these are mine,” with “Jack Labelle” on reverse along with CRW writing: “probably belonged to David Simeon.” The large rock (a) has a rounded shape and another type of rock included in an indentation. The rock is charred. The small rock (b) is shaped like a pestle, is darkened from use and charred and has fossils(?) exposed along the shaft.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 109.02.3040 a,b
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