POUCH

Description: WHITE LEATHER POUCH IS RECTANGULAR IN SHAPE WITH WHITE LEATHER TASSELS AROUND EDGE. TOP EDGE HAS ALTERNATING GREEN AND RED BEAD PATTERN. ONE SIDE HAS CIRCLE EMBLEM WHICH IS BLUE, RED AND YELLOW BEADS WITH RED BEADDED FLOWER PATTERN DOWN EDGE ON EITHER SIDE. REVERSE OF POUCH HAS DIAMOND SHAPED PATTERN MADE UP OF SMALLER RED, YELLOW, BLUE AND GREEN DIAMOND SHAPE. LEATHER IS SLIGHTLY DIRTY.

History: DONOR RELATES THAT THIS POUCH WAS MADE BY A NATIVE PERSON WHO LIVED IN COALDALE AND GIVEN TO HER FATHER, REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA. THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY WAS ORIGINALLY FROM VANCOUVER BUT MOVEDTO 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.