COMB, HAND
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- HRIBYONKA
- Date Range From
- 1880
- Date Range To
- 1910
- Materials
- WOOD
- Catalogue Number
- P19950032002
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- HRIBYONKA
- Date Range From
- 1880
- Date Range To
- 1910
- Materials
- WOOD
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 1.9
- Length
- 25.5
- Width
- 19.5
- Description
- UNFINISHED WOOD COMB, HAND CARVED FROM SINGLE PIECE OF WOOD. SQUARED COMB WITH TEETH CUT INTO LOWER HALF. SEMI-CIRCULAR NOTCH CUT INTO BOTH SIDES OF HANDLE BASE. FLARED HANDLE, WITH SMALL CHIP ON ONE EDGE.
- Subjects
- TEXTILEWORKING T&E
- Historical Association
- DOMESTIC
- History
- SEE FILE P19950032001-GA. DOUKHOBOR ARTIFACT. *UPDATE* IN 2016 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT RUTHANN LABLANCE CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF CLOTHING, INCLUDING A SASH DONATED BY WILLIAM AND MARY MALOFF. THE FOLLOWING BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WAS COMPILED USING ARTICLES FROM THE LETHBRIDGE HERALD. WILLIAM MALOFF IS THE SON OF GEORGE C. AND DORA (NEE KASAHOFF) MALOFF. HIS STEP-MOTHER WAS ANASTASIA (NEE HORKOFF) MALOFF. GEORGE WAS BORN ON MAY 18, 1895 IN CAUCASUS, RUSSIA. HE MOVED TO CANADA WITH HIS FAMILY IN 1899 AND THEY HOMESTEADED NEAR YORKTON, SK. HE MARRIED DORA IN 1912 AND THEY HAD TWO SONS, WILLIAM AND JOHN. DORA PASSED AWAY IN 1935 AND GEORGE REMARRIED IN 1937. MARY MALOFF WAS THE DAUGHTER OF MICHAEL AND ANASTASIA (NEE KOOZNETSOFF) SHKURATOFF (ALSO SPELLED SKOORATOFF AND SHKOORATOFF). MICHAEL WAS BORN IN YORKTON, SK AND MOVED TO COWLEY WHERE HE FARMED UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT TO BLAIRMORE IN 1962. MICHAEL PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 64 IN SEPTEMBER 1963. ANASTASIA WAS BORN IN YORKTON, SK ON JUNE 29, 1900 AND WAS MARRIED TO MICHAEL IN 1919. SHE PASSED AWAY IN 1986 AT THE AGE OF 85. THE NAMES OF HER PARENTS ARE NOT KNOWN, HOWEVER IT IS ASSUMED THAT HELEN KOOZNETSOFF WAS ANASTASIA’S MOTHER. MARY MALOFF’S SIBLINGS INCLUDED MABEL KINAKIN AND PAULINE ZMAEFF. MABEL PASSED AWAY IN SEPTEMBER 2008 AND MARY IS LISTED AS SURIVING HER SISTER AT THIS TIME. PAULINE PASSED AWAY IN AUGUST 2015 AND HER OBITUARY INDICATES THAT MARY HAS PASSED AWAY. SEARCHES FOR MARY’S OBITUARY WERE UNSUCCESSFUL. SEE PERMANENT FILE FOR COPIES OF THE ARTICLES FROM THE LETHBRIDGE HERALD.
- Catalogue Number
- P19950032002
- Acquisition Date
- 1995-07
- Collection
- Museum
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