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CASSOCK

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Material Type
Artifact
Other Name
ANGLICAN PRIEST'S CASSOCK
Date Range From
1930
Date Range To
1940
Materials
COTTON
Catalogue Number
P19970041738
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Material Type
Artifact
Other Name
ANGLICAN PRIEST'S CASSOCK
Date Range From
1930
Date Range To
1940
Materials
COTTON
No. Pieces
1
Height
0.5
Length
133.5
Width
52
Description
BLACK COTTON ROBE. ROBE HAS DOUBLED OVER FRONT CLOSURE WITH BUTTON AT RIGHT SIDE OF WAIST AND AT RIGHT SIDE OF NECK. NO COLLAR. ROBE HAS WELT SLITS CUT AT WAIST. ROBE IS HEAVILY WORN AND AREAS AROUND WAIST ARE TORN AND FRAYED.
Subjects
CLOTHING-OUTERWEAR
Historical Association
RELIGION
History
ROBE IS AN ANGLICAN PRIEST'S CASSOCK WHICH BELONGED TO DONOR'S FATHER, REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA. 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
P19970041738
Acquisition Date
1997-01
Collection
Museum
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