CARTRIDGE, TAPE

Description: 1. CASE. CASE HAS A DARK BLUE BACKGROUND. ON FRONT IS A PICTURE OF A GROUP OF 7 MEN IN BROWN AND MUSTARD COLOURED SUITS. MAN IN FRONT IS SITTING AND HOLDING A GUITAR. THERE IS JAPANESE WRITING ON ALL SIDES OF CASE. ON FRONT, IN BOTTOM RIGHT HAND CORNER IS "AEF1002". BACK PICTURES SAME GROUP OF MEN WEARING SUITS WITH WHITE JACKETS. 2. TAPE. WHITE TAPE WITH A WHITE AND BLUE LABEL. LABEL HAS ALMOST ENTIRELY JAPANESE WRITING EXCEPT FOR "AEF1002" IN TOP AND BOTTOM LEFT HAND CORNERS. EMBOSSED ON BACK OF TAPE IS "MADE IN JAPAN".

History: ITEMS WOULD HAVE BEEN ACQUIRED BY DONOR'S (SUNAO) MOTHER, KIKUYE. IT IS BELIEVED THAT THEY WERE PURCHASED LOCALLY, POTENTIALLY AT NAKAGAMA'S. ITEMS WOULD HAVE BEEN ENJOYED IN IRON SPRINGS, TURIN, PICTURE BUTTE AREA. WHEN KIKUYE LEFT PICTURE BUTTE FOR NANAIMO IN THE LATE 1980'S IT WAS ALL LEFT BEHIND. DONOR CAN ONLY PRESUME ABOVE INFORMATION AS MATERIAL WAS DONATED AFTER MOTHER'S PASSING. KIKUYE WAS BORN IN 1904. KIKUYE AND HER HUSBAND KUNIYOSHI, CAME TO CANADA IN 1918 AND INITIALLY SETTLED IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. IN 1941, THEY MOVED TO SOUTHERN ALBERTA WHERE THEY FARMED AND RAISED THEIR FAMILY IN THE TURIN AREA. KIKUYE AND HER HUSBAND LATER RETIRED IN PICTURE BUTTE. KIKUYE LATER MOVED TO NANAIMO, B.C. WHERE SHE RESIDED UNTIL PASSING AWAY IN MAY OF 2002.