PLAQUE, RELIGIOUS
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- Other Name
- CRUCIFIX
- Date Range From
- 1960
- Date Range To
- 1970
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Materials
- WOOD, GLASS, PLASTIC
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041324
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- CRUCIFIX
- Date Range From
- 1960
- Date Range To
- 1970
- Materials
- WOOD, GLASS, PLASTIC
- No. Pieces
- 2
- Height
- 23
- Length
- 10.4
- Width
- 7.7
- Description
- WOOD CROSS FIXED INSIDE SQUARE DOUBLE TIER BASE THAT HAS PURPLE GLASS COVERING OVER FRONT AND YELLOWED PLASTIC HUMAN FIGURE OF JESUS. TOP PORTION OF GLASS ON CROSS IS MISSING AND BLACK GLUE REMNANTS ARE VISIBLE. CROSS COMES FREE FROM BASE.
- Subjects
- CEREMONIAL ARTIFACT
- Historical Association
- RELIGION
- History
- ALTAR CROSS WAS KEPT ON THE BEDSIDE TABLE OF DONOR'S FATHER, REV. CANON G.G. NAKAYAMA, WHO WAS AN ANGLICAN PRIEST. THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY WERE ORIGINALLY FROM VANCOUVER BUT MOVED TO COALDALE FOLLOWING THE SECOND WORLD WAR WHEN THEY WERE RELOCATED TO SLOCAN CITY(1942) BY THE CANADIAN GOV'T. DONOR'S FATHER, REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA, WAS AN ANGLICAN MINISTER IN VANCOUVER, AND THEN ESTABLISHED THE CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION IN COALDALE IN 1945 WHERE HE SERVED UNTIL 1970. SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041324
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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