PAINTING

Description: SQUARE FRAMED PAINTING IS WHITE CLAY TILE WITH TWO BIRDS SITTING ON BRANCHES PAINTED ONTO TILE. DEEP FRAME IS PAINTED BLACK WITH GOLD COLORED PAINTED EDGE. DEDICATION TO REV. NAKAYAMA IS ON BACK WITH DATE "28.8.1972" AND "EGYPT" HAND PRINTED IN BLACK INK.

History: PAINTING WAS GIVEN TO REV. NAKAYAMA BY FELLOW EGYPTIAN CLERGYMAN IBRAHIM CABIB ON A TRIP TO EGYPT IN 1972. 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. *UPDATE* IN 2015 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT JANE EDMUNDSON CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF ART OBJECTS. NO NEW INFORMATION ABOUT THIS ARTIFACT WAS FOUND.