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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- MUSICAL KOALA BEAR
- Date Range From
- 1970
- Date Range To
- 1980
- Materials
- PLASTIC, ORGANIC MATERIALS
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041091
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- MUSICAL KOALA BEAR
- Date Range From
- 1970
- Date Range To
- 1980
- Materials
- PLASTIC, ORGANIC MATERIALS
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 21
- Length
- 19
- Width
- 13
- Description
- BROWN KOALA BEAR SITTING UPRIGHT WITH YELLOW RIBBON TIED AROUND ITS NECK. BEAR HAS CIRCULAR TURN KEY ON ITS BELLY. WHEN WOUND UP IT PLAYS WALTZING MATILDA.
- Subjects
- TOY
- Historical Association
- COMMEMORATIVE
- LEISURE
- History
- KOALA BEAR WAS BROUGHT BACK BY DONOR'S FATHER, REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA, AS A SOUVENIR OF HIS TRIP TO AUSTRALIA. DONOR'S FATHER TRAVELLED OFTEN AS A MISSIONARY OR SPEAKER FOR THE JAPANESE ANGLICAN MISSION. THIS IS ONE OF MANY SOUVENIRS HE BROUGHT BACK FROM SUCH TRIPS. THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY WAS ORIGINALLY FROM VANCOUVER AND WERE INTERNED IN SLOCAN CITY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR. FOLLOWING THE WAR THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY MOVED TO COALDALE, ALBERTA. AT COALDALE REV NAKAYAMA FOUNDED THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION WHERE HE WAS RECTOR FROM 1945 TO 1970. SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041091
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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