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Artist
Unknown
Date
prior to 1962
Medium
wool; hide
Catalogue Number
UnK.08.07
Description
This square wall hanging has green and black stitching all around the edges and in the corners. In the light background the scene includes in the upper section a male with a bow and arrow aiming at a caribou. The middle section shows a woman with a child on her back and a male figure with an arm ra…
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Artist
Unknown
Title
Family Caribou Hunt
Date
prior to 1962
Medium
wool; hide
Dimensions
58.0 x 66.0 cm
Description
This square wall hanging has green and black stitching all around the edges and in the corners. In the light background the scene includes in the upper section a male with a bow and arrow aiming at a caribou. The middle section shows a woman with a child on her back and a male figure with an arm raised. Just right of the center is a tee pee. Above the tee pee area is another woman with two children. The bottom area shows a dog tied to a fixed peg in the ground and another figure working on the tee pee. All the image shapes have been cut out of fibre with the exception of the tee pee, it is made from skin. The overall colour in this wall hanging is yellow, black,green and off white.
Subject
figures
male
female
child
activity
hunting
animals
caribou
dog
architecture
teepee
Credit
Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
Catalogue Number
UnK.08.07
Images
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Artist
Marion Florence Nicoll (1909 – 1985, Canadian)
Date
1948 – 1948
Medium
print on paper
Catalogue Number
NiM.04.02
Description
The piece features a teepee which takes up most of the print. It is printed with white, red, tan, and green inks on black paper. The teepee is situated just right of the center, and spans almost the entire height of the piece. The ground is covered with stones, and several other teepees are arra…
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Artist
Marion Florence Nicoll (1909 – 1985, Canadian)
Title
Teepees
Date
1948 – 1948
Medium
print on paper
Dimensions
14.2 x 16.4 cm
Description
The piece features a teepee which takes up most of the print. It is printed with white, red, tan, and green inks on black paper. The teepee is situated just right of the center, and spans almost the entire height of the piece. The ground is covered with stones, and several other teepees are arranged in the background. It is a stylized piece with the lines the black of the paper. There are hills and pine trees in the background. In the bottom left corner of the print there seems to be marks that indicate some text of sort, but the cataloger is unable to discern.
Subject
Landscape
Indigenous village
Teepee
Credit
Purchased from Canadian Art Gallery, Canmore, 1998
Catalogue Number
NiM.04.02
Images
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Women and Children with Dogs

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Artist
Unknown
Date
prior to 1962
Catalogue Number
UnK.08.09
Description
A rectangular shaped wall hanging with a red border. The outer edge and the border between the red and the light yellow background is stitched with criss cross and straight stitches. Inside the light yellow background are women and children with dogs. The scene is set up in three tears. Along the u…
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Artist
Unknown
Title
Women and Children with Dogs
Date
prior to 1962
Dimensions
57.5 x 80.0 cm
Description
A rectangular shaped wall hanging with a red border. The outer edge and the border between the red and the light yellow background is stitched with criss cross and straight stitches. Inside the light yellow background are women and children with dogs. The scene is set up in three tears. Along the upper section on the left are two dogs, in the center there is a male, female and a child. On the far right is a teepee. The middle section includes a couple of dogs and a female with a child on her back. The bottom section showes two more dogs on the left, a male figure in the center and a small animal on the far right is being attacked by four birds. All of the figures and most of the animals are made from skin cut out shapes and are stitched on and detailed with black, yellow, blue, red and a light pink fiber thread. The outside red border is made up of six pieces that are attached to create the full border.
Subject
figure
male
female
child
animals
dogs
birds
caribou
architecture
teepee
Credit
Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
Catalogue Number
UnK.08.09
Images
Less detail
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.
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