Hunting Buffalo (1 digital object(s)) Archives / Collections and Fonds

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Hunting Buffalo

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Item

Context of this record:

William George Richardson Hind collection

Hunting Buffalo
Record information
1
Hunting Buffalo

Date:

ca. 1863

Reference:

Box number: A096-02

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2835755

Date(s):

ca. 1863

Bilingual equivalent:

See French record description

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour over pencil on paper
Support 22.600 x 28.800 cm

Scope and content:

This work depicts a man hunting buffalo on the prairie.

Additional name(s):

Artist: Hind, William G. R., 1833-1889

Additional information:

General note:

The buffalo or bison hunt was the principal source of food for the Plains First Nations and Métis until the collapse of the herds in the 1880s. The hunt was also crucial to sustaining the fur trade.

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition title: 150 Years of Art in Manitoba. Curators: Ferdinand Eckhart, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba; 1970.05.01 - 1970.08.31.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated.

Subject heading:

Manitoba

SUBJ. - Hunting, Buffalo

Hunting

Animals - Mammals - BUFFALOES

Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

1937-287 PIC
00001
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Graphic (art)

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Box [1937-287] A096-02

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Copy negative [1937-287] C-013968

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1937-287-1
Copyright: Expired

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