Material Type

Artifact

Date Range From

1950

Date Range To

1960

Materials

COTTON, POLYESTER

No. Pieces

1

Height

0.1

Length

86

Width

82

Description

RECTANGULAR GREEN AND YELLOW TABLE THROW. THROW HAS GREEN BORDER WITH WHITE VERTICAL STRIPES, FOLLOWED BY A BLUE INNER BORDER WHICH HAS GREEN LEAF AND PINK ZIG-ZIG DEISGN. MIDDLE PORTION OF THROW IS LIGHT BEIGE WITH GREEN, RED AND BLUE FLOWER DESIGN THAT ALSO HAS A GREEN JAPANESE BUILDING AT EACH CORNER.

Subjects

HOUSEHOLD ACCESSORY

Historical Association

DOMESTIC

History

TABLE THROW WAS A HOUSEHOLD ITEM OF DONOR'S FAMILY WHILE LIVING AT COALDALE. POSSIBLY A SOUVENIR BROUGHT BACK TO CANADA BY HER FATHER. 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

P19970041809

Acquisition Date

1997-01

Collection

Museum

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