KIMONO
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1960
- Date Range To
- 1970
- Materials
- COTTON
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041728
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1960
- Date Range To
- 1970
- Materials
- COTTON
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 2.5
- Length
- 150
- Width
- 126
- Description
- WHITE LINEN KIMONO WITH BLACK, BLUE AND PURPLE FLOWER AND LEAF DESIGN. FULL LENGTH ROBE HAS LARGE SQUARE SLEEVES. COLOR IN DESIGN HAS BLED INTO FABRIC.
- Subjects
- CLOTHING-OUTERWEAR
- Historical Association
- PERSONAL CARE
- History
- KIMONO LIKELY BELONGED TO DONOR'S FATHER, REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA. DONOR RELATES THAT ALTHOUGH HER PARENTS HAD SEVERAL KIMONOS THEY DID NOT WEAR THEM MUCH. THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY WAS ORIGINALLY FROM VANCOUVER BUT MOVED TO COALDALE FOLLOWING THE SECOND WORLD WAR WHEN THEY WERE INTERNED AT SLOCAN CITY IN THE INTERIOR OF BRITISH COLUMBIA BY THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT. THE DONOR'S FATHER, REV. CANON 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
- P19970041728
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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