NECKLACE
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1940
- Date Range To
- 1950
- Materials
- PLASTIC
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041076
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1940
- Date Range To
- 1950
- Materials
- PLASTIC
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 0.3
- Length
- 39.1
- Width
- 1
- Description
- BROWN PLASTIC NECKLACE HAS CIRCULAR PLASTIC LINKS WITH SEVEN GUMDROP SHAPED PIECES IN BETWEEN SMALLER LINKS. PLASTIC OF ALL PIECES IS DARK BROWN WITH LIGHT MARBLING IN IT. NECKLACE HAS BEEN REPAIRED WITH BLACK THREAD AT JUNCTION OF CHAIN AND THIRD LARGER PIECE.
- Subjects
- ADORNMENT
- Historical Association
- PERSONAL CARE
- History
- NECKLACE BELONGED TO DONOR'S MOTHER, LOIS NAKAYAMA (NEE MASUI YAO), WHO MAY HAVE OWNED IT AFTER MOVING TO COALDALE. LOIS NAKAYAMA WAS ORIGINALLY FROM JAPAN AND WAS A CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY TO THE JAPANESE COMMUNITY IN VANCOUVER WHEN SHE MET AND MARRIED G.G. NAKAYAMA IN 1926. SHE WAS A GRADUATE OF JAPAN'S KINDERGARTEN TRAINING COLLEGE AND WORKED EXTENSIVELY WITH YOUNG CHILDREN IN VANCOUVER, SLOCAN AND COALDALE WHERE SHE MOVED WITH HER FAMILY IN 1945. SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041076
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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