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SAMPLE RECORDS
These "Sample Records" provide examples of good cataloguing for museum humanities collections. The data found in each record follows the data entry rules found in the CHIN Humanities Data Dictionary, and uses controlled vocabulary from recognized standards where possible. Each record includes a list of "sources" which indicates which controlled vocabularies or other standards were used for each data field
STANDARDIZED DOCUMENTATION SHEET
| Institution |
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery |
| IDENTIFICATION |
|
| Accession Number |
997.05 a-b |
| Discipline |
Fine Arts |
| Category |
Fine Arts |
| Sub-category |
Photography |
| Object Name |
photograph |
| Object Type |
diptych |
| Quantity |
1 |
| Component Part Names |
photograph (2) |
| Number of Components |
2 |
| Additional Associations |
The Melancholy of Maleness, Diptych E (997.06 a-b) |
| Artist/Maker |
Clark, Tim |
| Title |
The Melancholy of Maleness, Diptych B |
| Date of Object, To |
1996 |
| Period |
4th quarter of the 20th century |
| DIMENSIONS |
|
| Unit Linear |
cm |
| Height |
59.3 |
| Width |
75 |
| Image Height |
34 |
| Image Width |
50.5 |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
|
| Medium |
gelatin silver print; Iris ink-jet computer graphic print |
| Support |
paper |
| Technique |
printed |
| Subject/Image |
genre scene; landscape |
| Description |
The diptych is composed of a black & white photograph on the left, and reproductions of 16th to 18th century paintings, on the right, that are cut into two medallions. The photograph, taken from behind a man and small boy, shows them looking out through a window at penguins. The right element of two medallions has, at the left, a detail taken from Martyrdom of St Felipe (1639) by Jos. de Ribera, that shows a glimpse of the crucifix and the saint’s face. The second medallion, on the right, is a detail from Landscape with the Funeral of Phocion (1648) that shows a cloud formation and the upper branches of a tree. |
| Narrative |
The work is part of a series of 7 diptychs (diptychs A to G) which all have the same title and which were all created in 1996. The diptych A measures 65,9 x 86,7 cm and all the others have the same dimensions. A sculpture also has the title The Melancholy of Maleness (1996). It measures 31 cm (length) x 5 cm (width) x 4,5 cm (height) and it’s made of two Russian army bayonets welded together. |
| ORIGIN |
|
| Origin Country |
Canada |
| Culture |
Canadian |
| Image Full Size |
997_05_a_b.jpg |
| Image Thumbnail |
v997_05_a_b.jpg |
| COPYRIGHT |
|
| Copyright-Object |
© Tim Clark; TOUTE REPRODUCTION INTERDITE / ALL REPRODUCTIONS PROHIBITED |
Sources by field
Discipline :
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT). http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/.
Category and Sub-category :
SIMARD, Françoise and DESMARAIS, France (2nd edition), translated by Terry Knowles and Pamela Ireland, Documenting your collections. Info-Muse network documentation guide, Caring for your Collections, Montreal, Société des musées québécois, 2002.
Object Name :
ENVIRONMENT CANADA, PARKS SERVICE, Canadian Parks Service Classification System for Historical Collections, Ottawa, Canada Communication Group Publishing, 1992.
Object Type :
BÉNICHOU, Anne, Documentation Standards in Contemporary Art, Ottawa, CHIN, 1993, (http://daryl.chin.gc.ca:8000/BASIS/forum/user/e_general/DDD/7078.doc).
Medium and Support :
BÉNICHOU, Anne, Documentation Standards in Contemporary Art, Ottawa, CHIN, 1993, (http://daryl.chin.gc.ca:8000/BASIS/forum/user/e_general/DDD/7078.doc).
Technique :
EWING, Calum, Standards for the Use of the Material (MA), Technique (MT) and Related Fields on the CHIN Humanities Databases, Ottawa, CHIN, 1993.
Subject/Image :
SIMARD, Françoise and DESMARAIS, France (2nd edition), translated by Terry Knowles and Pamela Ireland, Documenting your collections. Info-Muse network documentation guide, Caring for your Collections, Montreal, Société des musées québécois, 2002.
Culture :
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT). http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/.
STANDARDIZED DOCUMENTATION SHEET
| Institution |
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery |
| IDENTIFICATION |
|
| Accession Number |
997.48 |
| Discipline |
Fine Arts |
| Category |
Fine Arts |
| Sub-category |
Photography |
| Object Name |
photograph |
| Object Type |
color |
| Quantity |
1 |
| Artist/Maker |
Cadieux, Geneviève |
| Title |
Untitled/Sans titre (dos) |
| Date of Object, To |
1994 |
| Period |
4th quarter of the century |
| DIMENSIONS |
|
| Unit Linear |
cm |
| Height |
138.5 |
| Width |
92.5 |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
|
| Medium |
color print |
| Support |
paper |
| Subject/Image |
body |
| Description |
The color photograph presents a full-frame view of a person’s back and head, from just inside the arms, above the waist, and at the ears. The subject’s hair is short and silver, and their spinal column is very noticeable. |
| Narrative |
This work belongs to a body of work that pictures magnified images of people and focuses on a single part of their anatomy. They reference the cinematographic in their cropped, cut and seamed formating, and by extension suggest the filmic "close-up." Blown up images of friends, family and strangers, these pictures bear evidence of lived experience and transmutation (scars, defects), revealing that which goes unnoticed. The pictured bodies expand, both literally and figuratively, beyond the subject/frame.Cadieux's works are simultaneously fragile and dangerous. They evoke a multitude of emotions form the viewer as they present a reading of the body in a progression that moves from the physical, to the visual, to the visualized. In an effort to extend the significance of each work, Cadieux incorporates the technology of the photographic medium into her creations, extending their symbolic and representational dimension through her manipulation of the imprint and its chemical composition. |
| ORIGIN |
|
| Origin Country |
Canada |
| Origin Province |
Québec |
| Culture |
Canadian |
| Image Full Size |
997_48.jpg |
| Image Thumbnail |
v997_48.jpg |
| COPYRIGHT |
|
| Copyright-Object |
© Geneviève Cadieux; TOUTE REPRODUCTION INTERDITE / ALL REPRODUCTIONS PROHIBITED |
Sources by field
Discipline :
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT). http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/.
Category and Sub-category :
SIMARD, Françoise and DESMARAIS, France (2nd edition), translated by Terry Knowles and Pamela Ireland, Documenting your collections. Info-Muse network documentation guide, Caring for your Collections, Montreal, Société des musées québécois, 2002.
Object Name :
ENVIRONMENT CANADA, PARKS SERVICE, Canadian Parks Service Classification System for Historical Collections, Ottawa, Canada Communication Group Publishing, 1992.
Object Type :
BÉNICHOU, Anne, Documentation Standards in Contemporary Art, Ottawa, CHIN, 1993, (http://daryl.chin.gc.ca:8000/BASIS/forum/user/e_general/DDD/7078.doc).
Artist/Maker :
Artists in Canada. http://daryl.chin.gc.ca:8000/BASIS/aich/user/www/sf.
Medium and Support :
BÉNICHOU, Anne, Documentation Standards in Contemporary Art, Ottawa, CHIN, 1993, (http://daryl.chin.gc.ca:8000/BASIS/forum/user/e_general/DDD/7078.doc).
Technique :
EWING, Calum, Standards for the Use of the Material (MA), Technique (MT) and Related Fields on the CHIN Humanities Databases, Ottawa, CHIN, 1993.
Subject/Image :
SIMARD, Françoise and DESMARAIS, France (2nd edition), translated by Terry Knowles and Pamela Ireland, Documenting your collections. Info-Muse network documentation guide, Caring for your Collections, Montreal, Société des musées québécois, 2002.
Culture :
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT). http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/.
STANDARDIZED DOCUMENTATION SHEET
| Institution |
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery |
| IDENTIFICATION |
|
| Accession Number |
998.10 |
| Discipline |
Fine Arts |
| Category |
Fine Arts |
| Sub-category |
Painting |
| Object Name |
painting |
| Object Type |
polyptych |
| Quantity |
1 |
| Component Part Names |
panel (2) |
| Number of Components |
2 |
| Artist/Maker |
Hurtubise, Jacques |
| Title |
Rosa Rose |
| Date of Object, To |
1974 |
| Period |
3rd quarter of the 20th century |
| DIMENSIONS |
|
| Unit Linear |
cm |
| Height |
183 |
| Width |
183 |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
|
| Medium |
acrylic |
| Support |
canvas |
| Signature |
Hurtubise 74 |
| Inscription |
© |
| Subject/Image |
abstract |
| Description |
The work is an abstraction done on nine square canvases fixed together into one large, square polyptych. The three component panels of the upper and middle rows carry angular, horizontally oriented, colored forms that are loosely grouped into three jagged bands. The three panels of the bottommost row show vertical drips of color: green, yellow, white, and red. Red and pink, set against a black ground, are the predominant colors of the work. |
| Narrative |
Rosa Rose is a painting situated within a body of work begun in the early seventies wherein the artist began using small square canvases locked together to form a grid-like construction. A departure from the serial geometric patterns of the late sixties, these new works provided a means for the artist to explore a different constructive approach. Organizing his canvases by restructuring individual units allowed the work to evolve in a more controlled and less random manner. By the end of the decade Hurtubise's investigations of what has been described as the "controlled accidents" of paint led to greater exploration of movement and gesture, anticipating the later rippled surfaces which have become prominent in our understanding of this artist's oeuvre. |
| ORIGIN |
|
| Origin Country |
Canada |
| Origin Province |
Québec |
| Culture |
Canadian |
| Image Full Size |
998_10.jpg |
| Image Thumbnail |
v998_10.jpg |
| COPYRIGHT |
|
| Copyright-Object |
© Jacques Hurtubise; TOUTE REPRODUCTION INTERDITE / ALL REPRODUCTIONS PROHIBITED |
Sources by field
Discipline :
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT). http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/.
Category and Sub-category :
SIMARD, Françoise and DESMARAIS, France (2nd edition), translated by Terry Knowles and Pamela Ireland, Documenting your collections. Info-Muse network documentation guide, Caring for your Collections, Montreal, Société des musées québécois, 2002.
Object Name :
ENVIRONMENT CANADA, PARKS SERVICE, Canadian Parks Service Classification System for Historical Collections, Ottawa, Canada Communication Group Publishing, 1992.
Object Type :
BÉNICHOU, Anne, Documentation Standards in Contemporary Art, Ottawa, CHIN, 1993, (http://daryl.chin.gc.ca:8000/BASIS/forum/user/e_general/DDD/7078.doc).
Artist/Maker :
Artists in Canada. http://daryl.chin.gc.ca:8000/BASIS/aich/user/www/sf.
Medium and Support :
BÉNICHOU, Anne, Documentation Standards in Contemporary Art, Ottawa, CHIN, 1993, (http://daryl.chin.gc.ca:8000/BASIS/forum/user/e_general/DDD/7078.doc).
Technique :
EWING, Calum, Standards for the Use of the Material (MA), Technique (MT) and Related Fields on the CHIN Humanities Databases, Ottawa, CHIN, 1993.
Subject/Image :
SIMARD, Françoise and DESMARAIS, France (2nd edition), translated by Terry Knowles and Pamela Ireland, Documenting your collections. Info-Muse network documentation guide, Caring for your Collections, Montreal, Société des musées québécois, 2002.
Culture :
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT). http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/.
STANDARDIZED DOCUMENTATION SHEET
| Institution |
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery |
| IDENTIFICATION |
|
| Accession Number |
999.02 a-c |
| Discipline |
Fine Arts |
| Category |
Fine Arts |
| Sub-category |
Painting |
| Object Name |
painting |
| Object Type |
triptych |
| Quantity |
1 |
| Component Part Names |
panel (3) |
| Number of Components |
3 |
| Artist/Maker |
Dorion, Pierre |
| Title |
Caduta |
| Date of Object, To |
1994 |
| Period |
4th quarter of the 20th century |
| DIMENSIONS |
|
| Unit Linear |
cm |
| Height |
244 |
| Width |
274.5 |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
|
| Medium |
oil; curtain; rod; framed velvet |
| Support |
linen |
| Technique |
painted; pierced; screwed; hung |
| Subject/Image |
portrait; abstract |
| Description |
The left panel has a red rectangular frame mounted vertically on the linen, the central panel depicts a self-portrait of Dorion looking down and leaning forward, the right panel has a drapery rod mounted at the top from which a red curtain hangs. |
| Narrative |
Caduta is from a self-portraiture series that explored the abstraction of painting through the figure, using self-portraiture merely as a motif. The artist investigated both the history of representation and the plastic constraints on reproducing a subject. The viewer comes away with an impression of emptiness, a glacial atmosphere (the cold colours used add to this sensation) and austere settings – almost deathlike. Pierre Dorion’s work is profoundly melancholy. (Jocelyne Aumont, Galerie Trois Points, 1999) |
| ORIGIN |
|
| Origin Country |
Canada |
| Origin Province |
Québec |
| Culture |
Canadian |
| Image Full Size |
999_02_a_c.jpg |
| Image Thumbnail |
v999_02_a_c.jpg |
| COPYRIGHT |
|
| Copyright-Object |
© Pierre Dorion; TOUTE REPRODUCTION INTERDITE / ALL REPRODUCTIONS PROHIBITED |
Sources by field
Discipline :
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT). http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/.
Category and Sub-category :
SIMARD, Françoise and DESMARAIS, France (2nd edition), translated by Terry Knowles and Pamela Ireland, Documenting your collections. Info-Muse network documentation guide, Caring for your Collections, Montreal, Société des musées québécois, 2002.
Object Name :
ENVIRONMENT CANADA, PARKS SERVICE, Canadian Parks Service Classification System for Historical Collections, Ottawa, Canada Communication Group Publishing, 1992.
Object Type :
BÉNICHOU, Anne, Documentation Standards in Contemporary Art, Ottawa, CHIN, 1993, (http://daryl.chin.gc.ca:8000/BASIS/forum/user/e_general/DDD/7078.doc).
Artist/Maker :
Artists in Canada. http://daryl.chin.gc.ca:8000/BASIS/aich/user/www/sf.
Medium and Support :
BÉNICHOU, Anne, Documentation Standards in Contemporary Art, Ottawa, CHIN, 1993, (http://daryl.chin.gc.ca:8000/BASIS/forum/user/e_general/DDD/7078.doc).
Subject/Image :
SIMARD, Françoise and DESMARAIS, France (2nd edition), translated by Terry Knowles and Pamela Ireland, Documenting your collections. Info-Muse network documentation guide, Caring for your Collections, Montreal, Société des musées québécois, 2002.
Culture :
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT). http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/.
STANDARDIZED DOCUMENTATION SHEET
| Institution |
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery |
| IDENTIFICATION |
|
| Accession Number |
999.99 |
| Discipline |
Fine Arts |
| Category |
Fine Arts |
| Sub-category |
Installation |
| Object Name |
installation |
| Object Type |
scuptural |
| Quantity |
1 |
| Component Part Names |
dress; cage; shoe (2) |
| Number of Components |
4 |
| Artist/Maker |
Dyck, Aganetha |
| Title |
Flower Girl’s Dress |
| Date of Object, From |
1993 |
| Date of Object, To |
1995 |
| Period |
4th quarter of the 20th century |
| DIMENSIONS |
|
| Unit Linear |
cm |
| Height |
231 |
| Width |
40.6 |
| Depth |
50.8 |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
|
| Medium |
wax, beeswax; dress; shoes; thread; metal cage |
| Technique |
assembled; suspended |
| Description |
The installation piece is made up of a girl’s dress (shoulder-straps, bodice, and skirt), metal garment bag, shoes, and metal enclosure. Wires attached to the straps suspend the dress, with garment bag, above shoes placed on the floor. The work is hung within a three-sided assembly (top, left, and right) of five, square, silver metal grills that carry traces of honeycomb. The single-strap shoes are low-heeled and reddish in hue. The straps of the dress are decorated with leaf-like shapes, and the skirt is made with elliptical petal forms. The light-cyan colored bodice has floral embroidery and honeycombs. |
| Narrative |
From its very early stages, Aganetha Dyck’s artistic career has centred on the transformation of the familiar, domestic object, from her series of shrunken sweaters to her canned buttons. More recently Dyck has been using bees to transform everything from cigarettes to shoes. Placing objects in the hive, Dyck waits for the bees to coat them in combs of wax, creating symbols, sometimes grotesque, of labour, community, and decay. Flower Girl’s Dress is part of a series of these honeycombed objects called The Extended Wedding Party, in which Dyck uses the world of the hive and the Queen Bee to comment on the cult of the bride and female domesticity. All kinds of wedding paraphernalia, such as dresses, food, and shoes, have been subjected to the bees’ work and then presented individually inside bee excluder screens. In this particular piece the absence of the human body is highlighted by the empty dress, and the ritual aspects of the wedding brought forward in the archeological, cultish appearance of the coated clothing, which is also partially spray-painted with gold like an ancient idol. (Martine Fournier, pour l’exposition Concordia Collects: Selected Art Acquisitions 1974-2000 / Un quart de siècle de collection d’art à Concordia) |
| ORIGIN |
|
| Origin Country |
Canada |
| Culture |
Canadian |
| Image Full Size |
999_99.jpg |
| Image Thumbnail |
v999_99.jpg |
| COPYRIGHT |
|
| Copyright-Object |
© Aganetha Dyck; TOUTE REPRODUCTION INTERDITE / ALL REPRODUCTIONS PROHIBITED |
Sources by field
Discipline :
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT). http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/.
Category and Sub-category :
SIMARD, Françoise and DESMARAIS, France (2nd edition), translated by Terry Knowles and Pamela Ireland, Documenting your collections. Info-Muse network documentation guide, Caring for your Collections, Montreal, Société des musées québécois, 2002.
Object Name :
ENVIRONMENT CANADA, PARKS SERVICE, Canadian Parks Service Classification System for Historical Collections, Ottawa, Canada Communication Group Publishing, 1992.
Object Type :
BÉNICHOU, Anne, Documentation Standards in Contemporary Art, Ottawa, CHIN, 1993, (http://daryl.chin.gc.ca:8000/BASIS/forum/user/e_general/DDD/7078.doc).
Artist/Maker :
Artists in Canada. http://daryl.chin.gc.ca:8000/BASIS/aich/user/www/sf.
Material :
EWING, Calum, Standards for the Use of the Material (MA), Technique (MT) and Related Fields on the CHIN Humanities Databases, Ottawa, CHIN, 1993.
Technique :
EWING, Calum, Standards for the Use of the Material (MA), Technique (MT) and Related Fields on the CHIN Humanities Databases, Ottawa, CHIN, 1993.
Subject/Image :
SIMARD, Françoise and DESMARAIS, France (2nd edition), translated by Terry Knowles and Pamela Ireland, Documenting your collections. Info-Muse network documentation guide, Caring for your Collections, Montreal, Société des musées québécois, 2002.
Culture :
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT). http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/.
STANDARDIZED DOCUMENTATION SHEET
| Institution |
Exporail - Musée ferroviaire canadien |
| IDENTIFICATION |
|
| Accession Number |
1960.25.1 |
| Discipline |
Ethnology & History |
| Category |
Distribution & Transportation Artifacts |
| Sub-category |
Rail Transportation Equipment |
| Object Name |
steam locomotive |
| Brand Name |
Canadian Pacific Railway |
| Model Name/Number |
A-1-e; 4-4-0; American |
| Quantity |
1 |
| Additional Associations |
1964.18.1 |
| Manufacturer |
Canadian Pacific Railway, Delorimier Shops |
| Manufacturer Country |
Canada |
| Manufacturer Province |
Québec |
| Manufacturer City |
Montréal |
| Date of Object, To |
1887 09 |
| Period |
2nd half of the 19th century; 1st half of the 20th century; 2nd half of the 20th century |
| DIMENSIONS |
|
| Unit Linear |
m |
| Height |
4.32 |
| Width |
2.54 |
| Length |
17.63 |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
|
| Material |
metal, steel; wood, oak; glass |
| Technique |
cast; bolted; welded; sawn; nailed; blown |
| Inscription |
on the sides : CPR 29 |
| Description |
The CP 29 is an A-1-e class locomotive. It is equipped with 17 x 24-inch cylinders and 70-inch driving wheels. Its useable tractive effort is 13,000 lbs. The 4-4-0 arrangement is the result of the first trials conducted in 1837, using a steering truck in front. The four-wheeled truck made it easier to negotiate turns and maintain higher speeds. The other two, larger, carrying wheels were connected to the pistons with expansion slide valves. Not long thereafter, with the introduction of larger boilers, a support axle was added behind the locomotive, ending up with the 4-4-2 "Atlantic" type. The 4-4-0 arrangement was so typical of North American railways that it was termed the “American” arrangement in the Whyte classification system. The power and wheel layout of this type of locomotive meant that it could be used for both freight and passenger service. |
| History of Use |
To haul passenger train. |
| Operating Principle |
The principle of the steam engine is that it transforms the heat energy of steam into mechanical energy, through expansion and cooling of steam in a cylinder with a moving piston. The steam to produce the energy or heat is provided by a boiler, fed with wood, coal or, later, heating oil. Combustion in the boiler emits steam, which collects under pressure in a steam dome. The steam passes through a superheater consisting of tubes exposed to the hot gases, further increasing its temperature, and is then sent to the pistons. When it returns, it is discharged into the smokestack through the smokebox. The movement of the piston is the perfect example of how heat energy is transformed into linear mechanical energy, driving the locomotive. A system of cranks and connecting rods transforms the back-and-forth motion of the piston into circular motion, causing the wheels to turn. |
| Narrative |
CP 29 was built at CPR's Delorimier Shops in Montreal in September 1887, as #390. It was renumbered around 1905 to #217. In 1912 it was once again renumbered to #29, and extensively rebuilt and modernized. CP 29's last regular assignment was the Norton to Chipman run in New Brunswick, where light bridges prohibited the use of larger power. In the company of #136 and #144, 29 worked until nearly the end of steam on the CPR. It made its last official steam run on CP out of Montreal in 1960. Following the last run, it was displayed at the CRHA Museum in Delson, Quebec. CP 29 was badly damaged in the 1994 fire, and was cosmetically restored by CP before being moved to its current location in Calgary, Alberta. These locomotives, widely replaced by 4-6-0 “Ten Wheeler” types around 1900, continued in use on branch lines until the early 1960s. |
| ORIGIN |
|
| Origin Country |
Canada |
| Origin Province |
Québec |
| Origin Municipality |
Montréal |
| Use Country |
Canada |
| Use Province |
Québec; Ontario; New Brunswick |
| User |
Canadian Pacific Railway |
| Service Begin Date |
1887 09 |
| Service End Date |
1960 11 06 |
| Culture |
Canadian |
| Image Full Size |
02050101.jpg |
| Image Thumbnail |
v02050101.jpg |
Sources by field
Discipline :
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT). http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/.
Category and Sub-category :
SIMARD, Françoise and DESMARAIS, France (2nd edition), translated by Terry Knowles and Pamela Ireland, Documenting your collections. Info-Muse network documentation guide, Caring for your Collections, Montreal, Société des musées québécois, 2002.
Object Name :
ENVIRONMENT CANADA, PARKS SERVICE, Canadian Parks Service Classification System for Historical Collections, Ottawa, Canada Communication Group Publishing, 1992.
Material :
EWING, Calum, Standards for the Use of the Material (MA), Technique (MT) and Related Fields on the CHIN Humanities Databases, Ottawa, CHIN, 1993.
Technique :
EWING, Calum, Standards for the Use of the Material (MA), Technique (MT) and Related Fields on the CHIN Humanities Databases, Ottawa, CHIN, 1993.
Culture :
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT). http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/.
STANDARDIZED DOCUMENTATION SHEET
| Institution |
Musée de Kamouraska |
| IDENTIFICATION |
|
| Accession Number |
1977.586 |
| Category |
Tools & Equipment for Materials |
| Sub-category |
Food Processing T&E; |
| Object Name |
butter churn |
| Quantity |
1 |
| Manufacturer |
Beatty Bros. Limited |
| Manufacturer Country |
Canada |
| Manufacturer Province |
Ontario ? |
| Date of Object, From |
1875 L |
| Date of Object, To |
1899 P |
| Period |
4th quarter of the 19th century |
| DIMENSIONS |
|
| Unit Linear |
cm |
| Height |
93 |
| Width |
57 |
| Depth |
82 |
| Outside Diameter |
36 |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
|
| Material |
wood; metal; varnish |
| Technique |
cut; assembled; varnished |
| Inscription |
on back, c. : BEATTY BROS/LIMITED/MAKERS/FERGUS LONDON WINNIPEG |
| Description |
Device on metal legs with casters. A rectangular wooden board at the bottom. The barrel is made of wooden staves held together by metal hoops, stands straight upright and is rotated end over end with a metal crank and round wooden knob on top. The cover closes with clamps and a screw and has a small round window that turns black when the butter is ready. A system of blades inside turns cream into butter as the barrel rotates. |
| History of Use |
To make butter. |
| Operating Principle |
The cream was poured into the barrel and the churn was rotated using the handle until the small glass disk, on the left near the centre of the lid, turned black, indicating that the cream had been turned into butter. |
| Narrative |
Rotating butter churns appeared in about 1880. This one, probably made in Ontario, belonged to a Kamouraska family. |
| ORIGIN |
|
| Origin Country |
Canada |
| Origin Province |
Ontario ? |
| Use Country |
Canada |
| Use Province |
Québec |
| Use Municipality |
Kamouraska |
| Culture |
Canadian |
| Image Full Size |
1977.586.jpg |
| Image Thumbnail |
v1977.586.jpg |
Sources by field
Category and Sub-category :
SIMARD, Françoise and DESMARAIS, France (2nd edition), translated by Terry Knowles and Pamela Ireland, Documenting your collections. Info-Muse network documentation guide, Caring for your Collections, Montreal, Société des musées québécois, 2002.
Object Name :
ENVIRONMENT CANADA, PARKS SERVICE, Canadian Parks Service Classification System for Historical Collections, Ottawa, Canada Communication Group Publishing, 1992.
Material :
EWING, Calum, Standards for the Use of the Material (MA), Technique (MT) and Related Fields on the CHIN Humanities Databases, Ottawa, CHIN, 1993.
Technique :
EWING, Calum, Standards for the Use of the Material (MA), Technique (MT) and Related Fields on the CHIN Humanities Databases, Ottawa, CHIN, 1993.
Culture :
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT). http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/.
STANDARDIZED DOCUMENTATION SHEET
| Institution |
Avataq Cultural Institute |
| IDENTIFICATION |
|
| Accession Number |
AV.2001.0001.1-2 |
| Category |
Communication Artifacts |
| Sub-category |
Original Art, Sculpture |
| Object Name |
sculpture |
| Quantity |
1 |
| Component Part Names |
statuette; feather |
| Number of Components |
2 |
| Artist/Maker |
Iyaituk, Mattiusi Manukuluk |
| Artist Other Names |
Niaqu |
| Title |
New Wing for the Shaman |
| Date of Object, To |
2000 |
| Period |
1st quarter of the 21th century |
| DIMENSIONS |
|
| Unit Linear |
cm |
| Height |
58.5 |
| Width |
26.5 |
| Length |
28.5 |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
|
| Material |
stone, serpentine; antler, caribou; hair, muskox; India ink |
| Technique |
cut; polished; engraved; assembled |
| Signature |
under : mtsy (MA.TI.U.SI) © 00 |
| Inscription |
under : New wing for the Shaman; AV-2001-0001; on sticker : Canada Eskimo Art Esquimeau 38-EFXX 0312006 |
| Description |
The title of this piece suggests that this evocative form of a standing Inuk with one wing refers to the ability to fly, one of the supernatural powers often attributed to Inuit shamans. |
| Narrative |
Mattiusi Iyaituk is an internationally acclaimed Nunavik artist. He is highly involved in cultural politics and in supporting local artists. A leading contemporary Inuit artist, he has a unique style that expands on traditional sculptural forms. He has freed himself from the constraints of monolithic carving, now producing composite pieces combining such materials as soapstone, serpentinite and caribou antlers, sinew and hair. Shamanism is a popular subject in Mattiusi’s work. |
| ORIGIN |
|
| Origin Country |
Canada |
| Origin Province |
Québec |
| Origin Municipality |
Ivujivik |
| Culture |
Inuit |
| Geographic Cultural Area |
Nunavik |
| Image Full Size |
0694_011.jpg |
| Image Thumbnail |
v0694_011.jpg |
| COPYRIGHT |
|
| Copyright-Object |
© Mattiusi Iyaituq / Fédération des coopératives du Nouveau-Québec; TOUTE REPRODUCTION INTERDITE / ALL REPRODUCTIONS PROHIBITED |
Sources by field
Category and Sub-category :
SIMARD, Françoise and DESMARAIS, France (2nd edition), translated by Terry Knowles and Pamela Ireland, Documenting your collections. Info-Muse network documentation guide, Caring for your Collections, Montreal, Société des musées québécois, 2002.
Object Name :
ENVIRONMENT CANADA, PARKS SERVICE, Canadian Parks Service Classification System for Historical Collections, Ottawa, Canada Communication Group Publishing, 1992.
Artist/Maker :
Artists in Canada. http://daryl.chin.gc.ca:8000/BASIS/aich/user/www/sf.
Material :
EWING, Calum, Standards for the Use of the Material (MA), Technique (MT) and Related Fields on the CHIN Humanities Databases, Ottawa, CHIN, 1993.
Technique :
EWING, Calum, Standards for the Use of the Material (MA), Technique (MT) and Related Fields on the CHIN Humanities Databases, Ottawa, CHIN, 1993.
Culture :
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT). http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/.
STANDARDIZED DOCUMENTATION SHEET
| Institution |
Avataq Cultural Institute |
| IDENTIFICATION |
|
| Accession Number |
AV.2004.0018 |
| Category |
Distribution & Transportation Artifacts |
| Sub-category |
Water Transportation Equipment |
| Object Name |
kayak |
| Alternate Object Name |
qajaq |
| Quantity |
1 |
| Additional Associations |
AV.2004.0017 |
| Artist/Maker |
Ningiuruvik, Maasiu Ipuaraapik |
| Artist Other Names |
Matthew |
| Date of Object, From |
1955 L |
| Date of Object, To |
1966 P |
| Period |
3rd quarter of the 20th century |
| DIMENSIONS |
|
| Unit Linear |
cm |
| Height |
45.8 |
| Width |
63.5 |
| Length |
693.5 |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
|
| Material |
skin, bearded seal; sinew, beluga; wood; metal |
| Technique |
stretched; sewn, hand; cut; trimmed; bent; nailed; assembled |
| Description |
A sea kayak with a flat bottom longer and more tapered than a river kayak or a lake kayak. |
| Narrative |
"In 1966, Masiu Ningiuruvik wants to buy a canoe, and he sells his qajaq, the last one in use in Kangiqsujuaq, to Bernard Saladin d'Anglure, who is in the community for research purposes. Mr. Saladin d'Anglure puts the qajaq on the ship going south and brings it to the University of Montreal, where he is a student that year (he will change to Laval University afterwards). During the next 34 years, the qajaq rests on a high shelf at the Anthropology Department collection reserve on Jean-Brillant Street in Montreal. In 2001, the qajaq is exhibited four months in the Tumivut exhibit organized by Avataq in old Montreal. In 2003, the project of a Visitor Centre for the Pingualuit Park is planned, and the park's cultural committee is in favour of thee return of the qajaq to its original community. In winter 2004, an official request is sent to the university who, after several meetings of professors, accepts to donate it to the Nunavik Inuit Art Collection, managed by Avataq in the name of the Nunavimmiut"Makivik magazine, Winter 2004-2005, Issue 71, p.13Since October 19, 2004, the qajaq is back in the community. |
| ORIGIN |
|
| Origin Country |
Canada |
| Origin Province |
Québec |
| Origin Municipality |
Kangiqsujuaq |
| Culture |
Inuit |
| Geographic Cultural Area |
Nunavik |
| Image Full Size |
0100_019.jpg |
| Image Thumbnail |
v0100_019.jpg |
Sources by field
Category and Sub-category :
SIMARD, Françoise and DESMARAIS, France (2nd edition), translated by Terry Knowles and Pamela Ireland, Documenting your collections. Info-Muse network documentation guide, Caring for your Collections, Montreal, Société des musées québécois, 2002.
Object Name :
ENVIRONMENT CANADA, PARKS SERVICE, Canadian Parks Service Classification System for Historical Collections, Ottawa, Canada Communication Group Publishing, 1992.
Material :
EWING, Calum, Standards for the Use of the Material (MA), Technique (MT) and Related Fields on the CHIN Humanities Databases, Ottawa, CHIN, 1993.
Technique :
EWING, Calum, Standards for the Use of the Material (MA), Technique (MT) and Related Fields on the CHIN Humanities Databases, Ottawa, CHIN, 1993.
Culture :
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT). http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/.
STANDARDIZED DOCUMENTATION SHEET
| Institution |
Avataq Cultural Institute |
| IDENTIFICATION |
|
| Accession Number |
DAV.2003.1.1-6 |
| Category |
Communication Artifacts |
| Sub-category |
Original Art, Other |
| Object Name |
collector’s doll |
| Alternate Object Name |
inuujaq |
| Quantity |
1 |
| Component Part Names |
doll; pouch; caribou's nail (4) |
| Number of Components |
6 |
| Additional Associations |
DAV.2003.1; DAV.2003.2; DAV.2003.3; DAV.2003.4; DAV.2003.5; DAV.2003.6; DAV.2003.7; DAV.2003.8; DAV.2003.9 |
| Artist/Maker |
Inukpuk, Elisapi |
| Title |
Atungakkuuk #10 |
| Date of Object, To |
2003 |
| Period |
1st quarter of the 21st century |
| DIMENSIONS |
|
| Unit Linear |
cm |
| Height |
24 |
| Width |
17 |
| Depth |
9 |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
|
| Material |
fur, muskrat; fur, seal; fur, caribou; skin, caribou; skin, cow; nail, caribou; fibre |
| Technique |
cut; sewn, hand; stuffed; braided; assembled |
| Description |
This doll represents Atungak dressed in a traditional outfit, holding a whip in his left hand. He is wearing a shoulder bag containing caribou hooves. This representation of the Atungak tale contains 4 dolls (Atungak, his wife, his son and his daughter), a sled and 4 strings of beads. The beads are toys for young children. |
| History of Use |
This doll, along with several others, was made to order by Elisapi Inukjpuk as part of the Unikkaangualaurtaa (Raconte-moi une histoire / Let's tell a story) project, which involved developing teaching material for early childhood educators in Nunavik (for ages 0 to 5). The dolls illustrate different stories (tales, legends and historical accounts) intended to support and promote the use of the Inuit language and to transmit traditional culture and knowledge to young people in Nunavik. |
| Narrative |
People say that traces of Atungak’s footsteps can still be seen in the stone in some places in Nunavik. Atungak is a legendary figure who walked around the world with his wife. The story is generally told that he and his wife left behind their two children, who were old enough to be independent. When they returned home at the end of their long journey, they found that their son and daughter had been lazy, sleeping away most of their lives. They were now elderly and in ill health, looking much older than their parents. Their parents, who had walked great distances and slept only when necessary, had aged very little at all. |
| ORIGIN |
|
| Origin Country |
Canada |
| Origin Province |
Québec |
| Origin Municipality |
Inukjuak |
| Culture |
Inuit |
| Geographic Cultural Area |
Nunavik |
| Image Full Size |
0109_0961.jpg |
| Image Thumbnail |
v0109_0961.jpg |
| COPYRIGHT |
|
| Copyright-Object |
© Elisapi Inukpuk / Fédération des coopératives du Nouveau-Québec; TOUTE REPRODUCTION INTERDITE / ALL REPRODUCTIONS PROHIBITED |
Sources by field
Category and Sub-category :
SIMARD, Françoise and DESMARAIS, France (2nd edition), translated by Terry Knowles and Pamela Ireland, Documenting your collections. Info-Muse network documentation guide, Caring for your Collections, Montreal, Société des musées québécois, 2002.
Object Name :
ENVIRONMENT CANADA, PARKS SERVICE, Canadian Parks Service Classification System for Historical Collections, Ottawa, Canada Communication Group Publishing, 1992.
Material :
EWING, Calum, Standards for the Use of the Material (MA), Technique (MT) and Related Fields on the CHIN Humanities Databases, Ottawa, CHIN, 1993.
Technique :
EWING, Calum, Standards for the Use of the Material (MA), Technique (MT) and Related Fields on the CHIN Humanities Databases, Ottawa, CHIN, 1993.
Culture :
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT). http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/.
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