Quirt Riding Whip
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- Date
- 1965 – 1975
- Material
- wood; skin
- Catalogue Number
- 106.06.0051
- Description
- Carved piece of wood with man's face wearing tall red hat and having carved blue twist representing body, with red thunderbird motif wrapped around green pole at bottom. Features and carving accentuated by charring wood. Wrist strap of buckskin at top fastened through two slits at ends to hand tied…
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- Title
- Quirt Riding Whip
- Date
- 1965 – 1975
- Material
- wood; skin
- Dimensions
- 3.9 x 4.5 x 44.8 cm
- Description
- Carved piece of wood with man's face wearing tall red hat and having carved blue twist representing body, with red thunderbird motif wrapped around green pole at bottom. Features and carving accentuated by charring wood. Wrist strap of buckskin at top fastened through two slits at ends to hand tied around "hat", and lash at bottom of a strip of buckskin passes through hole drilled at bottom and then through slit in itself with two ends hanging loose.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- craft
- animal
- horse
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 106.06.0051
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