DOLL
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1970
- Date Range To
- 1980
- Materials
- STEEL, WOOL, COTTON
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041113
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1970
- Date Range To
- 1980
- Materials
- STEEL, WOOL, COTTON
- No. Pieces
- 2
- Height
- 30.5
- Length
- 18.2
- Width
- 11.3
- Description
- HANDMADE DOLL IS WHITE WOOL STRANDS BOUND TOGETHER TO FORM BODY WITH COLORFUL CLOTH CLOTHES. FEMALE FIGURE HAS BRIGHT RED BLOUSE, BLUE SKIRT AND WIDE BRIMMED HAT THAT IS BROWN AND YELLOW. FIGURE ALSO HAS LONG BLACK PIG TAILS. BASE IS CIRCULAR STEEL BASE WITH TWO ARMS AT TOP OF SHAFT TO HOLD DOLL.
- Subjects
- TOY
- Historical Association
- COMMEMORATIVE
- LEISURE
- History
- DOLL WAS BROUGHT BACK BY DONOR'S FATHER, REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA, AS A SOUVENIR OF HIS TRIP BRAZIL. STAND WAS BOUGHT LOCALLY. 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
- P19970041113
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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