BLANKET
https://collections.galtmuseum.com/link/artifact10112
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- SOUTH AMERICAN BLANKET
- Date Range From
- 1970
- Date Range To
- 1980
- Materials
- WOOL
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041834
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- SOUTH AMERICAN BLANKET
- Date Range From
- 1970
- Date Range To
- 1980
- Materials
- WOOL
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 0.3
- Length
- 212
- Width
- 103
- Description
- RECTANGULAR HEAVY WOOL BLANKET IS ALTERNATING BLUE, BLACK AND WHITE VERTICAL STRIPES WITH EMBLEM AT CENTER AND WHITE TASSELS AT ENDS. EMBLEM IS OF A LARGE BIRD WITH SPREAD WINGS WHICH HAS A SNAKE IN ITS MOUTH.
- Subjects
- BEDDING
- Historical Association
- DOMESTIC
- History
- WOOL BLANKET WAS LIKELY BROUGHT BY TO CANADA BY DONOR'S FATHER, REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA, WHO TRAVELLED EXTENSIVELY AS A MISSIONARY. POSSIBLY FROM BRAZIL. 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
- P19970041834
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
{{ server.message }}