CUSHION
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- PILLOW
- Date Range From
- 1970
- Date Range To
- 1980
- Materials
- COTTON
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041776
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- PILLOW
- Date Range From
- 1970
- Date Range To
- 1980
- Materials
- COTTON
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 12
- Length
- 39
- Width
- 41
- Description
- SQUARE CUSHION HAS FABRIC PRINT OF JAPANESE ARCH STRUCTURE IN A RIVER WITH COLORFUL FLORAL AND TREE DESIGNS. SQUARE HAS RED PIPING ALONG EDGE.
- Subjects
- HOUSEHOLD ACCESSORY
- Historical Association
- DOMESTIC
- COMMEMORATIVE
- History
- CUSHION IS POSSIBLY A SOUVENIR OF A TRIP TO OKINAWA BY DONOR'S FATHER, REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA, WHO TRAVELLED EXTENSIVELY AS A MISSIONARY AND SPEAKER. 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
- P19970041776
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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