NECKLACE
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1960
- Date Range To
- 1970
- Materials
- BRASS
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041274
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1960
- Date Range To
- 1970
- Materials
- BRASS
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Length
- 21.3
- Width
- 1.3
- Description
- NECKLACE IS MADE UP OF OPEN OVAL FRAME WITH MAPLE LEAF MOUNTED TO FRONT OF FRAME. NARROW BRASS CHAIN IS RUN THROUGH FRAME AS RING TAB IS MISSING.
- 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
- P19970041274
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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