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Gamlakyeltxw (Miriam Douse), a Chief of Gitanyow
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Emily Carr
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- Variations in title: title, Mrs. Douse, Chieftainess Of Kitwancool, in place as early as 1961 and created by Provincial Archives of BC. See Newcombe Collection catalogue, 1962. Note Newcombe inventory says the museum has a photograph (Royal BC Museum Indigenous Collections, PN03929) of Mrs. Douse dated 1910 which was used to confirm identity.
- Statements of responsibility: This work is in Emily Carr's hand and was in her studio at the time of her death, inventoried by the executors and stamped with the ink estate stamp.
- Source of title proper: revised in consultation with Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs, 2020, for the exhibition Everyday Emily Carr.
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PDP00629
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[1928] (Creation)
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1 watercolour: watercolour on paper; 31.8 cm x 28.o cm.
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(1871-1945)
Custodial history
Purchased by William Arnold Newcombe from the estate of Emily Carr, 1945.
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One watercolour portrait.
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Purchased by the Government of British Columbia from the estate of W.A. Newcombe, 1961.
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Archives code(s): PDP00629; Previously numbered as NC 99.
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Accession number(s): 196104-001
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Exhibited:
- The World of Emily Carr a new exhibition of her paintings from the Newcombe Collection, Hudson's Bay Company, Victoria and Vancouver.
1977-1991. Various exhibitions at the Emily Carr Gallery, B.C. Archives, 1107 Wharf Street, Victoria, BC.
1986-1987. Carr Native Portraits, McMichael Canadian Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario.
1991-1992. Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.
1994-1995. Emily’s People, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.
2001-2002. Emily Carr: Eccentric, Artist, Author, Genius, Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria.
2006-2008. Emily Carr: New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon collaboration between the Vancouver Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa travelling to the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and the Glenbow Museum, Calgary.
2011-2012. On the Edge of Nowhere. Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.
2014-2015. From the Forest to the Sea. Emily Carr in British Columbia. Collaboration between the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK and the Art Gallery of Ontario.
2020-2021. Everyday Emily Carr. Royal BC Museum.
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- Carr, Emily (Subject)
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