NECKLACE
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- IMITATION PEARLS
- Date Range From
- 1930
- Date Range To
- 1940
- Materials
- SILVER, PLASTIC
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041265
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- IMITATION PEARLS
- Date Range From
- 1930
- Date Range To
- 1940
- Materials
- SILVER, PLASTIC
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Length
- 44.7
- Diameter
- 0.7
- Description
- 44.7CM LONG NECKLACE OF IMITATION PEARLS. SMALLEST PEARLS ARE AT EITHER END WITH GRADUAL INCREASE IN SIZE TOWARDS MIDDLE WHERE LARGEST PEARLS ARE. ELLIPTICAL CLASP IS MADE OF STERLING SILVER PLATE. STRING IS STRETCHED AND PEARLS ARE LOOSE.
- Subjects
- ADORNMENT
- Historical Association
- PERSONAL CARE
- History
- NECKLACE BELONGED TO DONOR'S MOTHER, LOIS NAKAYAMA (NEE MASUI YAO), WHO WAS ORIGINALLY FROM JAPAN AND WAS A CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY TO THE JAPANESE COMMUNITY IN VANCOUVER WHEN SHE MET AND MARRIED G.G. NAKAYAMA IN 1926. SHE WAS A GRADUATE OF JAPAN'S KINDERGARTEN TRAINING COLLEGE AND WORKED EXTENSIVELY WITH YOUNG CHILDREN IN VANCOUVER, SLOCAN AND COALDALE WHERE SHE MOVED WITH HER FAMILY IN 1945. SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041265
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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