PURSE
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- HANDBAG
- Date Range From
- 1930
- Date Range To
- 1940
- Materials
- SILK, COTTON
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041938
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- HANDBAG
- Date Range From
- 1930
- Date Range To
- 1940
- Materials
- SILK, COTTON
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 15.5
- Diameter
- 13.5
- Description
- SILK HANDBAG IS CIRCULAR BASE WITH SOFT COVER SIDES WHICH ARE LACED AT TOP WITH PURPLE CORD. SILK IS GREY/BLUE COLOUR WITH RED AND BLUE FLOWER PATTERN.
- Subjects
- PERSONAL GEAR
- Historical Association
- PERSONAL CARE
- History
- DONOR RELATES THAT THE PURSE LIKELY BELONGED TO HER MOTHER. 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
- P19970041938
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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