TRUNK
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- "REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA SLOCAN CITY B.C."
- Date Range From
- 1930
- Date Range To
- 1940
- Materials
- WOOD, BRASS, PAPER
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041861
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- "REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA SLOCAN CITY B.C."
- Date Range From
- 1930
- Date Range To
- 1940
- Materials
- WOOD, BRASS, PAPER
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 63.2
- Length
- 82.4
- Width
- 57
- Description
- RECTANGULAR BLACK WOODEN TRUNK WITH BRASS FITTINGS AND CORNERS. FRONT HAS HOLE FOR BRASS LOCK AND BRASS LATCHES ON EITHER SIDE. HAND PAINTED IN WHITE ON LID IS "REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA SLOCAN CITY B.C." AND "N.21". TRUNK ALSO HAS RED PAPER LABELS THAT READ "GLASS HANDLE WITH CARE". INTERIOR OF TRUNK HAS SEPARATE TRAY WITH LID. TRAY AND INTERIOR OF TRUNK ARE COVERED WITH PAPER THAT HAS BEIGE LEAF DESIGN WITH PINK AND BLUE FLOWERS.
- Subjects
- PERSONAL GEAR
- Historical Association
- DOMESTIC
- History
- TRUNK BELONGED TO DONOR'S FAMILY IN VANCOUVER AND WAS USED TO TRANSPORT THEIR BELONGINGS TO SLOCAN CITY (1942), COALDALE (1945) AND BACK TO VANCOUVER (1980). TRUNK IS MENTIONED IN DONOR'S NOVEL "OBASAN" AND IN HER POEM "CHOICE OF DREAMS". THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY WERE 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. FROM AUGUST 29 TO 31, 2011 COLLECTIONS TECHNICIAN KEVIN MACLEAN INTERVIEWED THE DONOR, JOY KOGAWA, ABOUT HER MEMORIES ASSOCIATED WITH SPECIFIC OBJECTS THAT SHE DONATED IN 1997. OF THIS ARTIFACT, KOGAWA SAID: “[THE TRUNK] HAD A LID WITH SLOTS IN IT [TO HOLD THINGS], A LITTLE BOX THAT WE COULD TAKE OUT, THEN UNDER THAT THERE WERE A WHOLE LOT OF OTHER THINGS… IT WAS SO FILLED WITH THINGS… CHINA CUPS FROM ENGLAND WERE IN THERE… LITTLE NOTES [AND] INVITATIONS TO CHRISTMAS DINNERS… [MY MOTHER’S] NIGHTGOWN WHICH WAS MADE IN FRANCE [AND WAS] A WEDDING GIFT… MY GREEN BATHING SUIT AND MY MOTHER’S KNITTED BATHING SUIT, AND HER WHITE HAT… PAPER PATTERNS OF OLD TWENTIES DRESSES… THINGS THAT WERE OLD, BUT THAT [MY PARENTS] COULDN’T GET RID OF WERE KEPT IN THAT TRUNK.” SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041861
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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