Material Type

Artifact

Other Name

PETTICOAT TOP

Date Range From

1890

Date Range To

1900

Materials

COTTON

No. Pieces

1

Length

52.2

Width

164.5

Description

WHITE COTTON SMOCKED BLOUSE WITH COLLAR AND OPEN NECKLINE. SHIRRED AT COLLAR AND FLARED AT WAIST. SLEEVES ALSO SHIRRED, WITH SLIGHTLY RUFFLED CUFFS BELOW WRISTBANDS. COLLAR IS SQUARED AT CORNERS, WITH CROCHETED BORDER. CROSS-STITCH PATTERN ALONG NECKLINE AND BORDER OF COLLAR, EMBROIDERED IN RED AND GREEN THREAD. SIMILAR PATTERN CROSS-STITCHED ON SLEEVES. SINGLE WHITE PLASTIC BUTTON AT NECK AND AT EACH WRIST. SECOND TURN OF BOTTOM HEM HAS BEEN UNSTITCHED.

Subjects

CLOTHING-UNDERWEAR

Historical Association

PERSONAL CARE

History

SEE P19950067001-GA FOR MORE HISTORY. DOUKHOBOR. *UPDATE* IN 2010 NICOLE HEMBROFF, COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT, CONTACTED ELSIE MORRIS NEE KONKIN (WHO DONATED THE ARTIFACTS ON BEHALF OF HER MOTHER) IN ORDER TO OBTAIN MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE HISTROY OF THE OBJECTS AND THEIR CONNECTION TO THE DOUKHOBORS OF SOUTHERN ALBERTA. SEE BELOW. ACCORDING TO MORRIS, THIS BLOUSE BELONGED TO ELIZABETH (NOHORNOFF) WISHLOW. IT WAS PART OF THE TRADITIONAL DOUKHOBOR COSTUME AND WOULD HAVE BEEN WORN UNDER A VEST AND PAIRED WITH A HALF SLIP, SKIRT, APRON AND SCARF. MORRIS SAID ITEMS LIKE THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN PART OF A GIRL’S TROUSSEAU. SHE WOULD HAVE HAD TO MAKE THEM BEFORE SHE WAS MARRIED. FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE PERMANENT FILE. *UPDATE* IN 2017 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT RUTHANN LABLANCE CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF CLOTHING, INCLUDING AN APRON DONATED BY ELIZABETH KONKIN. THE FOLLOWING BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WAS COMPILED USING ARTICLES FROM THE LETHBRIDGE HERALD. ELIZABETH KONKIN AKA ELSIE MORRIS IS THE DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM KONKIN AND ELIZABETH P. KONKIN (NEE WISHLOW). ELSIE WAS MARRIED TO TERRANCE GORDON “TERRY” MORRIS. TERRY PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 88 ON OCTOBER 25, 2012. WILLIAM KONKIN PASSED AWAY MARCH 3, 1977 AT THE AGE OF 72. ELIZABETH KONKIN (NEE WISHLOW) WAS BORN IN CANORA, SK ON JANUARY 22, 1907, THE DAUGHTER OF PETER AND ELIZABETH WISHLOW (MAIDEN NAME UNKNOWN). AT THE AGE OF 6 SHE MOVED WITH HER FAMILY TO A DOUKHOBOR SETTLEMENT AT BRILLIANT, BC, THEN LATER HER FAMILY MOVED TO A DOUKHOBOR SETTLEMENT AT SHOULDICE, AB. IT WAS HERE THAT SHE MET AND MARRIED WILLIAM KONKIN. IN 1939, THE COUPLE MOVED TO THE VAUXHALL AREA TO FARM UNTIL THEIR RETIREMENT, AFTER WHICH THEY MOVED TO LETHBRIDGE. ELIZABETH PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 93 ON APRIL 8, 2000. SEE PERMANENT FILE FOR COPIES OF THE ARTICLES FROM THE LETHBRIDGE HERALD. THE KONKINS WERE A RUSSIAN-SPEAKING FAMILY FROM THE TOWN OF SHOULDICE, ALBERTA, NEAR CALGARY. THEY AND MANY OTHER RUSSIAN FAMILIES COMPOSED THAT TOWN'S DOUKHOBOR COLONY. IN 2016, COLLECTIONS TECHNICIAN KEVIN MACLEAN CONDUCTED FROM A TWO-PART INTERVIEW WITH KONKIN'S DAUGHTER, ELSIE MORRIS. A FULL HISTORY OF THE KONKIN FAMILY WAS CREATED USING THAT INTERVIEW AND CAN BE FOUND WITH THE RECORD P20160003002.

Catalogue Number

P19950067009

Acquisition Date

1995-10

Collection

Museum

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