Material Type

Artifact

Other Name

POWDER DISH

Date Range From

1970

Date Range To

1980

Materials

SOAP STONE

No. Pieces

2

Height

5.5

Diameter

7.7

Description

GREENISH BROWN SPHERICAL STONE DISH WITH FULLY ROUNDED LID. STONE IS SPECKLED WITH BLACK SPOTS. DISH HAS CIRCULAR BASE. INSIDE OF DISH IS WHITE WITH CIRCULAR CUT PATTERNS.

Subjects

TOILET ARTICLE

Historical Association

COMMEMORATIVE

PERSONAL CARE

History

STONE DISH IS MADE FROM SOAPSTONE AND WAS BROUGHT BACK BY DONOR'S FATHER AS A SOUVENIR OF HIS TRIP TO BRAZIL. 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

P19970041102

Acquisition Date

1997-01

Collection

Museum

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