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Animal Figurine
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact107.01.0084
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- metal, bronze; ivory
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0084
- Description
- A bronze charging bull with its tail raised and its head down and slightly turned to one side. The bull has a broad snout, curly hair on its head, and curved ivory horns. The bull has been cast with features and hair texture showing in detail including cloven hooves. The figurine’s black patina …
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- Title
- Animal Figurine
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- metal, bronze; ivory
- Dimensions
- 5.0 x 14.0 cm
- Description
- A bronze charging bull with its tail raised and its head down and slightly turned to one side. The bull has a broad snout, curly hair on its head, and curved ivory horns. The bull has been cast with features and hair texture showing in detail including cloven hooves. The figurine’s black patina worn at high points showing bronze colour through.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0084
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- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- wood; ivory
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0085 a,b
- Description
- Two nearly identical carved wooden elephants with ivory tusks and inlaid ivory eyes. Each elephant is standing with its trunk hanging to the ground and slightly curled under at the end. The grain of wood is vertical with end grain showing as stippled texture on the back and under the belly. Eac…
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- Title
- Animal Figurine
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- wood; ivory
- Dimensions
- 14.0 x 6.7 x 12.5 cm
- Description
- Two nearly identical carved wooden elephants with ivory tusks and inlaid ivory eyes. Each elephant is standing with its trunk hanging to the ground and slightly curled under at the end. The grain of wood is vertical with end grain showing as stippled texture on the back and under the belly. Each elephant has a grooved crease carved in the top of its head, two creases in each ear, and three along each side.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0085 a,b
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Animal Figurine
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact107.01.0087
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- ceramic
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0087
- Description
- Scarab beetle carved from a lump of terracotta with its head and legs in relief on sides with smoothly curved back shell incised with outlines of wings. The bottom of the base has a flat incised pictograph of a beetle at the bottom inside a large oval shape with cross-hatched rectangle above him …
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- Title
- Animal Figurine
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- ceramic
- Dimensions
- 3.5 x 5.5 x 8.8 cm
- Description
- Scarab beetle carved from a lump of terracotta with its head and legs in relief on sides with smoothly curved back shell incised with outlines of wings. The bottom of the base has a flat incised pictograph of a beetle at the bottom inside a large oval shape with cross-hatched rectangle above him and circle above that, and two long triangular shapes at each side of the oval. The figurine is glazed with green-blue slip.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0087
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Commemorative Coin
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact105.02.0065
- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.0065
- Description
- A round brass coloured coin with the profile of man with long hair tied into club at neck (George Washington?) and marked “The Engineers Club of Philadelphia 1877” around the border in relief. The other side has a crossed olive branch and oak branch framing the edges with “The First American Engin…
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- Title
- Commemorative Coin
- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 0.3 x 3.5 x 3.5 cm
- Description
- A round brass coloured coin with the profile of man with long hair tied into club at neck (George Washington?) and marked “The Engineers Club of Philadelphia 1877” around the border in relief. The other side has a crossed olive branch and oak branch framing the edges with “The First American Engineer” at the bottom and “Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair” at the centre.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.0065
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