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Date
1900 – 1910
Material
skin; quill
Catalogue Number
103.07.0005
Description
A loom woven quill belt. The belt has a white background and features a design of a series of red diamonds running the length of the belt with a border of red and blue squares.
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Title
Beaded Belt
Date
1900 – 1910
Material
skin; quill
Dimensions
3.5 x 65.0 cm
Description
A loom woven quill belt. The belt has a white background and features a design of a series of red diamonds running the length of the belt with a border of red and blue squares.
Subject
Indigenous
Athapaskan
Chippeway
decorative
regalia
quillwork
weaving
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.07.0005
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Date
1900 – 1910
Material
quill; glass; fibre; skin
Catalogue Number
103.07.0006
Description
A loom woven quill belt that is split at one end. The belt has a white background with red and turquoise triangles along edges. The design features a central band of white outlined in yellow containing blue diamonds outlined in yellow. The split ends of the belt are worked in a red, white and bl…
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Title
Beaded Belt
Date
1900 – 1910
Material
quill; glass; fibre; skin
Dimensions
4.0 x 78.0 cm
Description
A loom woven quill belt that is split at one end. The belt has a white background with red and turquoise triangles along edges. The design features a central band of white outlined in yellow containing blue diamonds outlined in yellow. The split ends of the belt are worked in a red, white and blue chevron pattern. The entire belt is edged with white beads.
Subject
Indigenous
Chippeway
Athapaskan
decorative
regalia
quillwork
beadwork
weaving
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.07.0006
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Date
1900 – 1910
Material
skin; quill; glass
Catalogue Number
103.07.0007
Description
A loom woven quill belt with a white background with a red and purple triangular pattern along the top and bottom edges. There is a band of turquoise, red and pink diamond shapes along the centre of the belt, and a chequerboard pattern at each end of white alternating with yellow, blue, red and tu…
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Title
Beaded Belt
Date
1900 – 1910
Material
skin; quill; glass
Dimensions
4.3 x 64.0 cm
Description
A loom woven quill belt with a white background with a red and purple triangular pattern along the top and bottom edges. There is a band of turquoise, red and pink diamond shapes along the centre of the belt, and a chequerboard pattern at each end of white alternating with yellow, blue, red and turquoise squares. The belt is fastened with thongs, and is trimmed with beads along the outside edges.
Subject
Indigenous
Chippeway
Athapaskan
regalia
decorative
beadwork
quillwork
weaving
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.07.0007
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Date
1900 – 1930
Material
grass; skin; fibre
Catalogue Number
104.19.1026 a-c
Description
Finely woven corn husk bags, 3 sizes with different geometric patterns. (a) 20.0x17.0, continuous weave, sewn together at bottom. Fabric sewn onto top edge, buckskin loop for handle. (b) 31.0x24.5, woven and decorated same technique as (a), different design. 2 buckskin loops sewn on back with 3…
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Title
Food Gathering Bag
Date
1900 – 1930
Material
grass; skin; fibre
Description
Finely woven corn husk bags, 3 sizes with different geometric patterns. (a) 20.0x17.0, continuous weave, sewn together at bottom. Fabric sewn onto top edge, buckskin loop for handle. (b) 31.0x24.5, woven and decorated same technique as (a), different design. 2 buckskin loops sewn on back with 33.0 long handle. (c) 46.0x37.0, woven same technique as a and b but with sisal. Decoration dyed and plain corn husk overlay.
Subject
Indigenous, Montana
households
weaving
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
104.19.1026 a-c
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Ice Breakup on the Atlantic

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactanm.08.042
Artist
Mary Garnham Andrews (1916 – 2018, Canadian)
Date
1972
Medium
weaving
Catalogue Number
AnM.08.042
Description
Undulating lines of teal blue, grey, and white woven together, with strands of turquoise to simulate the ice breakup in the ocean. No pattern was laid out to do this work.
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Artist
Mary Garnham Andrews (1916 – 2018, Canadian)
Title
Ice Breakup on the Atlantic
Date
1972
Medium
weaving
Dimensions
35.2 x 31.7 cm
Description
Undulating lines of teal blue, grey, and white woven together, with strands of turquoise to simulate the ice breakup in the ocean. No pattern was laid out to do this work.
Subject
crafts
weaving
Mary G. Andrews
Credit
Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009
Catalogue Number
AnM.08.042
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Indian artists at work

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25548
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1977
Author
Steltzer, Ulli
Publisher
North Vancouver, B.C. : J.J. Douglas Ltd.
Call Number
07.2 S3i
Author
Steltzer, Ulli
Publisher
North Vancouver, B.C. : J.J. Douglas Ltd.
Published Date
1977
Physical Description
163 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous People
Indigenous Artists
Art
Haida
Kwagutl
Cowichan
Salish
Okanagan
Gitksan
Carving
Weaving
Abstract
The Indian cultures that once flourished in the Pacific Northwest left a magnificent legacy. Now, a distinguished photographer has sought out British Columbia's native artists in their own places, met them informally and recorded their rediscovery of the old skills. In over 200 perceptive photographs, Ulli Steltzer has captured ninety-three dedicated men and women as they carve silver, wood and argillite; prepare wood for weaving and knitting; dig roots and gather grasses for their baskets. There are glimpses of their studios, their homes, the countryside; and their words, to, are recorded. -- From back cover
Contents
Haida Carvers ; Haida Basket Weavers ; Kwagutl Carvers and Blanket Makers ; Weavers and Carvers of Vancouver Island's West Coast ; Cowichan Knitters and Salish Weavers ; Thompson, Mount Currie, and Coastal Basket Weavers ; Okanagan and Carrier Bead and Leather Workers, Carrier Birch Basket Makers ; Gitksan Carvers and Blanket Makers ; The Nass River, Stikine River, and Prince Rupert Carvers
ISBN
0888941706
Accession Number
2022.17
Call Number
07.2 S3i
Collection
Archives Library
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Date
1978
Material
fibre
Catalogue Number
107.01.0135
Description
Mask like, flat face of woven fibre with cut out eyes and mouth. Appliqued, braided fibre binding edges and nose, trim decoration at top and bottom.
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Title
Mask
Date
1978
Material
fibre
Dimensions
41.5 x 19.0 cm
Description
Mask like, flat face of woven fibre with cut out eyes and mouth. Appliqued, braided fibre binding edges and nose, trim decoration at top and bottom.
Subject
weaving
souvenirs
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
107.01.0135
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Date
1900 – 1910
Material
wood, cedar
Catalogue Number
108.05.0002
Description
A flat bottomed, basketry canoe woven of split cedar bark on a cedar splint frame. The canoe has an imbricated design in dark brown on both sides.
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Title
Miniature Canoe
Date
1900 – 1910
Material
wood, cedar
Dimensions
3.0 x 10.0 x 43.0 cm
Description
A flat bottomed, basketry canoe woven of split cedar bark on a cedar splint frame. The canoe has an imbricated design in dark brown on both sides.
Subject
Indigenous, Salish
crafts
weaving
toys
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
108.05.0002
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Date
1900 – 1920
Material
fibre, flax
Catalogue Number
104.20.0009 a-f
Description
A set of six, nearly square, white placemats of finely woven linen. Each mat has a square of cut and drawn openwork with a pattern of “X”s and “O”s in the centre that is surrounded by another band of cut and drawn openwork. The placemats have narrow hems.
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Title
Place Mat
Date
1900 – 1920
Material
fibre, flax
Dimensions
12.0 x 12.5 cm
Description
A set of six, nearly square, white placemats of finely woven linen. Each mat has a square of cut and drawn openwork with a pattern of “X”s and “O”s in the centre that is surrounded by another band of cut and drawn openwork. The placemats have narrow hems.
Subject
households
crafts
needlework
weaving
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
104.20.0009 a-f
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Date
1977
Material
wood; metal; fibre; paper; plastic
Catalogue Number
104.45.1041 a-c
Description
A table loom, shuttle, and weaving (belt) that is set up on the loom:(a) A four-harness wood table loom handmade by Harold Mortimer, strung, with shuttle and cotton thread attached which you move through the warp as the weft. There is a pencilled circle (radius 2.0cm, 3.60cm from each end and 0.50c…
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Title
Table Loom
Date
1977
Material
wood; metal; fibre; paper; plastic
Dimensions
33.0 x 16.5 x 61.0 cm
Description
A table loom, shuttle, and weaving (belt) that is set up on the loom:(a) A four-harness wood table loom handmade by Harold Mortimer, strung, with shuttle and cotton thread attached which you move through the warp as the weft. There is a pencilled circle (radius 2.0cm, 3.60cm from each end and 0.50cm from the bottom with the number) the number “3” and “HM” , Harold Mortimer’s monogram, pencilled in the centre. It has four wooden knobs on top of the upright posts that have the string harnesses attached. Underneath the top of the upright post there is a white address label (4.60x1.5cm wide) with red on the top and bottom. On it is printed “HAROLD MORTIMER 341 BIG HORN ST BOX 77 BANFF ALBERTA T0L 0C0 and to the right of that, written in pen “DEC 1977”It has metal reeds which the fibre goes through. The completed part of the belt is wound around the roller (covered in cardboard) so the fibre not damaged. There is a slender round piece of wood (pencil) for tautness. There is also a roller (warp beam) on the back where the threads (warp) are attached.(b) the wooden shuttle, 17.5x2.5cm wide, with a groove at each end creating a space for the fibre to be wound around horizontally.(c) the partially woven, blue, yellow, and brown strip of woven cloth that is set up on the loom.
Subject
crafts
woodwork
weaving
Harold Mortimer
Mary Andrews
Credit
Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009
Catalogue Number
104.45.1041 a-c
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