PENDANT, RELIGIOUS
https://collections.galtmuseum.com/link/artifact9036
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- CRUCIFIX
- Date Range From
- 1940
- Date Range To
- 1950
- Materials
- TIN
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041251
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- CRUCIFIX
- Date Range From
- 1940
- Date Range To
- 1950
- Materials
- TIN
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 0.2
- Length
- 5.3
- Width
- 3
- Description
- TIN CROSS WITH RAISED FLORAL WORK BACKGROUND AND RAISED RELIEF OF THE CRUCIFIED CHRIST. RAISED SCROLL ABOVE FIGURE'S HEAD READS "INRI". CRUCIFIX HAS LOOP AT TOP WITH SMALL METAL RING.
- Subjects
- PERSONAL SYMBOL
- ADORNMENT
- Historical Association
- RELIGION
- History
- CRUCIFIX BELONGED TO DONOR AS A CHILD. DONOR WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE REV. G.G. & LOIS NAKAYAMA WHO WERE ORIGINALLY FROM VANCOUVER. THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY WAS RELOCATED TO SLOCAN CITY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR. IN 1945 THE FAMILY MOVED TO COALDALE WHERE REV. NAKAYAMA FOUNDED THE CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION WHERE HE WAS MINISTER UNTIL 1970. THE DONOR WENT ON TO BECOME A LECTURER AND AUTHOR OF RENOWN IN CANADA AND HAS WRITTEN A NUMBER OF BOOKS INCLUDING "OBASAN" AND "THE RAIN ASCENDS". SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041251
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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