KNIFE, PAPER
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- LETTER OPENER
- Date Range From
- 1960
- Date Range To
- 1980
- Materials
- WOOD
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041092
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- LETTER OPENER
- Date Range From
- 1960
- Date Range To
- 1980
- Materials
- WOOD
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 0.2
- Length
- 21.2
- Width
- 1.8
- Description
- WOODEN LETTER OPENER IS SINGLE PIECE WITH BLACK PAINETED HANDLE THAT HAS RED, YELLOW AND GOLD PAINTED NATIVE STYLE PATTERN. THE WORD "PHILIPPINES" IS PAINTED IN BLACK ALONG BLADE.
- Subjects
- WRITTEN COMMUNICATION T&E
- Historical Association
- COMMEMORATIVE
- BUSINESS
- History
- LETTER OPENER WAS BROUGHT BACK BY DONOR'S FATHER, REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA, AS A SOUVENIR OF HIS TRIP TO THE PHILLIPINES. DONOR'S FATHER TRAVELLED OFTEN AS A MISSIONARY & SPEAKER FOR THE JAPANESE ANGLICAN MISSION. THIS IS ONE OF MANY SOUVENIRS HE BROUGHT BACK FROM SUCH TRIPS. THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY WAS ORIGINALLYFROM 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
- P19970041092
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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