CULTIVATOR, HAND
https://collections.galtmuseum.com/link/artifact10129
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1960
- Materials
- STEEL, WOOD
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041851
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1960
- Materials
- STEEL, WOOD
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 19.5
- Length
- 145.5
- Width
- 13.5
- Description
- HAND CULTIVATOR HAS STRAIGHT WOODEN HANDLE WITH NARROWER NECK. AT END OF TIP OF HANDLE IS CYLINRDICAL BOLSTER WITH FLAT TABLE WHICH HAS FIVE CURVED TEETH ON IT. ONE SHORT ONE IS AT CENTER, TWO LONGER ON EITHER SIDE AND TWO LONGEST ON OUTSIDE. EACH TOOTH HAS FLAT SPEAR HEAD TIP. METAL TEETH AND BOLSTER ARE HEAVILY CORRODED.
- Subjects
- AGRICULTURAL T&E
- Historical Association
- AGRICULTURE
- History
- CULTIVATOR WAS USED BY DONOR'S FATHER WHO WAS AN AVID GARDENER IN HIS SPARE TIME. 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
- P19970041851
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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