BROOCH
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1960
- Date Range To
- 1970
- Materials
- STERLING SILVER, GLASS
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041278
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1960
- Date Range To
- 1970
- Materials
- STERLING SILVER, GLASS
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 0.7
- Length
- 3.7
- Width
- 2.7
- Description
- STERLING SILVER BUTTERFLY WITH BLUE BAGUETTE CUT GLASS STONES ALONG EDGES OF WINGS. REMAINDER OF WINGS AND BODY ARE ADORNED WITH EIGHT CUT CLEAR GLASS STONES.
- Subjects
- ADORNMENT
- Historical Association
- PERSONAL CARE
- History
- BROOCH 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
- P19970041278
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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