Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1930.845 A-B: 'Teepee (A) and Door (B). Made according to the old pattern, but made from canvas instead of buffalo hide. Hide tipis are now unobtainable.'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Tipi door made from canvas which has been stretched over a wooden frame.
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card for 1930.845 A-B: 'Cree (Plains)'
Event Date
Author: Kirsty Kernohan

Context (Field collection)
Collected by Robert Rymill with his brother John Rymill and Donald A. Cadzow during the Franklin Motor Expedition to the Canadian Prairies in 1929
Event Date 1929
Author: Stephanie Chinneck

Context (Amendments / updates)
Louis Clarke had specified in correspondence that a tipi would be "a white elephant" , being too large for the store (A. Brown 06.01.2001).
Event Date 25/11/1992
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Related Documents)
Brown, Alison K. 1998. Catalogue of the Rymill Collection in the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. MAA Archives FA5/1/12. Copy of the Rymill Collection binders which were created by Alison Brown funded by a Crowther-Beynon grant
Event Date 1998
Author: Stephanie Chinneck

Description (Physical description)
The decoration consists of two panels of yellow and green paint. The frame has been broken on one edge and there is a small repair patch at the bottom edge on the green half of the door.
Event Date 25/5/2005
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (References)
Brown, Alison K. 2014. First Nations, Museums, Narrations: Stories of the 1929 Franklin Motor Expedition to the Canadian Prairies. Vancouver: UBC Press.
Event Date 2014
Author: Stephanie Chinneck

Context (Amendments / updates)
The object image and details were taken from the Rymill Collection binders which were photocopied to produce the unpublished "Catalogue of the Rymill Collection in the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology" by Alison K. Brown, 1998, (MAA Archives FA5/1/12).
Event Date 1/4/2020
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Amendments / updates)
Language- Algonquian speakers
Language group affiliations were previously recorded in the cultural group field but this has now been removed.
Event Date 1/4/2020
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Door for tipi, 1930.845 A, made of canvas stetched over a wooden arched frame. One side painted yellow and green. Canvas has been stitched into place. Frame with steel nails. One edge of frame broken just below cross bar.
Event Date 23/1/2025
Author: Stephanie Chinneck

Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2025.6147 | Freezing
Event Date 18/2/2025
Author: Kirsty Kernohan