topic:"sitting" found 14 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Medallion Necklace

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Date: prior to 1970

Material: stone; skin

Catalogue Number: 103.01.3008

Description: Round, flat red stone with skin thong (approx. 90.0 cm long) threaded through a hole in the pendant. One side of the stone has a scratched a star design (Morningstar ? Four Directions?) and on the other is a bison skull. Also scratched in is "Chief Sitting Eagle” (John Hunter).

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Title: Medallion Necklace

Date: prior to 1970

Material: stone; skin

Dimensions: 5.3 x 44.8 cm

Description: Round, flat red stone with skin thong (approx. 90.0 cm long) threaded through a hole in the pendant. One side of the stone has a scratched a star design (Morningstar ? Four Directions?) and on the other is a bison skull. Also scratched in is "Chief Sitting Eagle” (John Hunter).

Subject: Indigenous; Stoney; regalia; Chief Sitting Eagle; John Hunter

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 103.01.3008

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Memory

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: ca. 1920 – 1927

Medium: charcoal on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.245

Description: A sketch of a faceless woman sitting, wearing a hat, with crossed legs and hands resting on her lap. There is a frame drawn around image, and it looks like it’s been erased at the bottom and brought higher. It also appears that the title and signature have been erased and placed in a new location…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Memory

Date: ca. 1920 – 1927

Medium: charcoal on paper

Dimensions: 27.5 x 21.0 cm

Description: A sketch of a faceless woman sitting, wearing a hat, with crossed legs and hands resting on her lap. There is a frame drawn around image, and it looks like it’s been erased at the bottom and brought higher. It also appears that the title and signature have been erased and placed in a new location.Watermark: “CERTIFICATE BOND” then symbol of a large “C” with “McE” within it “MADE IN USA”

Subject: woman; sitting

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.245

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Plaque

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Date: 1988 – 1989

Material: ceramic

Catalogue Number: 103.09.1195

Description: Handmade ceramic plaque. Handwritten in black on front: “Jon Whyte . . . for tenderly supervising the birth and delivery of ‘The Song and the Silence’ 1988”.

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Title: Plaque

Date: 1988 – 1989

Material: ceramic

Dimensions: 24.0 x 17.0 cm

Description: Handmade ceramic plaque. Handwritten in black on front: “Jon Whyte . . . for tenderly supervising the birth and delivery of ‘The Song and the Silence’ 1988”.

Subject: Jon Whyte; Peter Jonker; Frank Kaquitts; Sitting Wind

Credit: Gift of Harold C. Whyte, Penticton, 2002

Catalogue Number: 103.09.1195

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Teepee Backrest

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Date: prior to 1970

Material: wood; fibre; feathers; skin

Catalogue Number: 102.04.3001 a,b

Description: Two roughly triangular backrests with sticks, bark removed, held together by woven buckskin thongs. Each rest is edged with red fabric and has a thong at the pointed end for tying to a pole. a) This rest has a braided thong at the pointed end of the rest.b) This rest has two feathers attached at…

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Title: Teepee Backrest

Date: prior to 1970

Material: wood; fibre; feathers; skin

Dimensions: 45.0 (a); 50.0 (b) x 65.0 (a); 83.0 (b) cm

Description: Two roughly triangular backrests with sticks, bark removed, held together by woven buckskin thongs. Each rest is edged with red fabric and has a thong at the pointed end for tying to a pole. a) This rest has a braided thong at the pointed end of the rest.b) This rest has two feathers attached at the pointed end. There are two tags attached to this rest: a white one with “Made by George Kaquitts” on one side and “backrests for a teepee” on the reverse, and a yellow tag with “Silas Abraham Aug. 6 1970” on one side and “Flora Rabbitt” on the reverse.

Subject: Indigenous; Stoney; tepee; households; Frank Kaquitts; Sitting Wind; crafts

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 102.04.3001 a,b

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1916 – 1927

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.090

Description: Sketch of figure sitting with arms wrapped loosely around knees.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1916 – 1927

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 15 x 10.5 cm

Description: Sketch of figure sitting with arms wrapped loosely around knees.

Subject: figure; sitting

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.090

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1925 – 1966

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.829

Description: Multiple sketches of different figures in the top half of the paper. There are three drawing of people standing that are sketched in profile, one of a man wearing a hat sitting that is also seen sketched in profile. There are three other figures that are wearing long robes that are facing away from…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1925 – 1966

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 22.6 x 13.7 cm

Description: Multiple sketches of different figures in the top half of the paper. There are three drawing of people standing that are sketched in profile, one of a man wearing a hat sitting that is also seen sketched in profile. There are three other figures that are wearing long robes that are facing away from the view. About 8 cm down from the TLC there is a scribble of graphite.

Subject: people; man; clothing; robes; walking; sitting

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.829

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1925 – 1966

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.848

Description: Three people are sitting around a table together. One is a woman who has her right up where her chin can rest on. There is a second person that has their back to the viewer. The third person, a man, has a cigarette in his mouth. verso: “The Miyaka Hotel, (Hotel Metropole) Kyoto, Japan”

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1925 – 1966

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 11.9 x 16.2 cm

Description: Three people are sitting around a table together. One is a woman who has her right up where her chin can rest on. There is a second person that has their back to the viewer. The third person, a man, has a cigarette in his mouth. verso: “The Miyaka Hotel, (Hotel Metropole) Kyoto, Japan”