Material Type

Artifact

Other Name

JAPANESE SEWING PATTERN

Date Range From

1930

Date Range To

1940

Materials

PAPER

No. Pieces

1

Height

0.1

Length

37.7

Width

26.1

Description

RECTANGULAR HEAVY PAPER FOLDED BROCHURE. FRONT HAS COLOUR IMAGE OF A YOUNG JAPANESE WOMAN WEARING A BLUE KNIT SWEATER AND GREEN SKIRT. BACK HAS IMAGES OF TWO JAPANESE GIRLS WEARING KNIT SWEATERS OR DRESS, WITH CLOSE-UP PICTURE OF PATTERN. INSIDE HAS BROWN PRINTING IN JAPANESE WITH INSTRUCTIONS AND VARIOUS DIAGRAMS. BROCHURE IS TORN.

Subjects

DOCUMENTARY ARTIFACT

Historical Association

DOMESTIC

History

BOOKLET LIKELY BELONGED TO DONOR AS A YOUNG GIRL WHEN SHE BEGAN TO SEW. DONOR RELATES THAT SHE SEWED MORE THAN HER MOTHER AND MADE A NUMBER OF GARMENTS FOR HERSELF. 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

P19970041883

Acquisition Date

1997-01

Collection

Museum

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