- Date
- 1950 – 1965
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0341 a,b
- Description
- Two handkerchiefs made of plain squares of cotton and printed with cartoon figures and "cute" sayings. (a) white with grey and ochre figures of ostriches with their heads in the sand, and a single ostrich at the centre looking around saying, "Where is everyone?" surrounded by a wide square band of…
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- Title
- Handkerchief
- Date
- 1950 – 1965
- Material
- fibre
- Dimensions
- 36.5 x 38.0 cm
- Description
- Two handkerchiefs made of plain squares of cotton and printed with cartoon figures and "cute" sayings. (a) white with grey and ochre figures of ostriches with their heads in the sand, and a single ostrich at the centre looking around saying, "Where is everyone?" surrounded by a wide square band of stylized red bamboo plants, with a narrow rolled hem of ochre colour. Signed in lower right corner, "Tammis Keefe". (b) white, with multicolour printing, and the captain, "How the Norwegians say it." at the centre. Around the edge are cartoon vignettes of Viking Norwegians in different activities with the Norwegian phrase printed above. Very narrow machine stitched hem outside of narrow blue line around edge.
- Subject
- households
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0341 a,b
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