ORNAMENT, CHRISTMAS

Description: DECORATION, PINECONE CHARACTER, WEARING RED WITH GREEN TREE WRAPPING PAPER HAT, HEAD IS WHITE STYROFOAM BALL WITH GREEN FOIL FACE, BODY IS RED AND CREAM PAINTED PINECONE WITH MULTI-LOOPED, GREEN RIBBON BOW ON FRONT.

History: ACCORDING TO THE DONOR, WENDY AITKENS, “THE TOP OF THE 1920S UPRIGHT OAK PIANO WAS ALWAYS SET UP WITH A WHITE LINEN RUNNER, THE CHOIR AND OTHER FAMILY ORNAMENTS SUCH AS THE PINECONE PEOPLE – ONE FOR EACH OF THE THREE KIDS.” DONOR WAS UNABLE TO RECALL WHICH OF THE PINECONE PEOPLE REPRESENTED WHICH CHILD. SHE SAID, “MY MOTHER AND DAD MADE THEM. I SUPPOSE WE COLLECTED THE CONES ON A VACATION IN BC, COULD HAVE BEEN IN WASA LAKE. DAD PAINTED THE CONES AND MOM ADDED THE STYRO FACES AND HATS. MOM LIKED TO DECORATE THE HOUSE FOR CHRISTMAS AND WAS VERY CLEVER WITH HER HANDS. MOM MAY HAVE CHANGED THE HAT ON ONE OF THEM DUE TO DAMAGE. DAD PROBABLY USED PAINTS FROM HIS BUSINESS TO PAINT THE PINECONES. SEVERAL CHOIRBOYS AND ANGELS WERE PASSED ONTO ME AND THE PIANO EVENTUALLY WENT TO MY HOME AS WELL. THE TRADITION OF DECORATING THE PIANO TOP CONTINUED WHILE WE LIVED IN CALGARY RIGHT UP TO THE POINT WHERE I INHERITED THE PIANO AND THE BOX OF DECORATIONS. ONCE LANNY AND I STARTED TO TRAVEL TO BC TO BE WITH OUR GIRLS, THEIR HUSBANDS AND OUR GRANDSONS AT CHRISTMAS (FROM 2003 ON), FEWER DECORATIONS WERE PUT UP. I NOW HAVE THREE HANDMADE WOODEN REINDEER THAT I PUT OUT WITH THE PINECONE PEOPLE.” SEE PERMANENT FILE FOR MORE INFORMATION. SEE P20090030001 FOR FAMILY HISTORY.