- Date
- 1973
- Material
- stone
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.3006 a-c
- Description
- Three shaped stone tomahawk heads.a) Smooth oval stone with an indent around the centre. Tag with CRW’s writing: “4 StoneTomahawk heads found by Nial Dixon 1973 on Old Man River near Leindbrek in Summer 1973” and on reverse, in another hand, “July 13/82 Note: only 2 found in pkg together.”b) Rough…
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- Title
- Fragment
- Date
- 1973
- Material
- stone
- Dimensions
- 4.7 (a); 7.0 (b); 1.7 (c) x 7.0 (a); 9.0 (b); 9.0 (c) x 11.5 (a); 12.0 (b); 10.0 (c) cm
- Description
- Three shaped stone tomahawk heads.a) Smooth oval stone with an indent around the centre. Tag with CRW’s writing: “4 StoneTomahawk heads found by Nial Dixon 1973 on Old Man River near Leindbrek in Summer 1973” and on reverse, in another hand, “July 13/82 Note: only 2 found in pkg together.”b) Rough egg-shaped stone with indent around the centre.c) Dark, trapezoid-shaped stone that is relatively flat.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- tools
- warfare
- Nial Dixon
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.3006 a-c
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Strike-A-Light
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- Date
- prior to 1900
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 102.07.3001
- Description
- A flat piece of steel 1.0 x 0.4 cm is bent into an oval shape with the points welded together and coming to a sharp point 0.8 cm wide. A chain 31.0 long is attached to loop as a wrist strap. Stamped on one side is the outline of a tiger and below that stamped "Tiger" and two other illegible word…
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- Title
- Strike-A-Light
- Date
- prior to 1900
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 4.0 x 9.0 cm
- Description
- A flat piece of steel 1.0 x 0.4 cm is bent into an oval shape with the points welded together and coming to a sharp point 0.8 cm wide. A chain 31.0 long is attached to loop as a wrist strap. Stamped on one side is the outline of a tiger and below that stamped "Tiger" and two other illegible words. Tag in CRW's writing: "Helen Scalplock Oct 24 1971."
- Subject
- households
- Indigenous
- Stoney
- Helen Scalplock
- tools
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.07.3001
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