PURSE
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- HANDBAG
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1960
- Materials
- RAYON, COTTON, NYLON
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041440
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- HANDBAG
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1960
- Materials
- RAYON, COTTON, NYLON
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Length
- 31
- Diameter
- 17
- Description
- LIGHT BLUE RAYON BAG WITH DIAMOND SHAPED LACE DESIGN ON SIDES. LACE DESIGN HAS BUTTERFLY MOTIF AND CLEAR PLASTIC BEAD EDGING. TUBULAR IN SHAPE WITH BOTTOM TIED WITH CLEAR PLASTIC BEAD AND PURPLE NYLON TASSEL. BAG IS CLOSED BY TWO WHITE NYLON CORDS THREADED THROUGH YELLOWISH PLASTIC LOOPS WHICH ARE SEWN AROUND MOUTH OF BAG. BAG HAS WATER STAINS.
- Subjects
- PERSONAL GEAR
- Historical Association
- DOMESTIC
- History
- HANDBAG BELONGED TO DONOR'S MOTHER AND WAS USED TO STORE VARIOUS HOUSEHOLD ITEMS. THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY WAS ORIGINALLY FROM VANCOUVER BUT MOVED TO COALDALE FOLLOWING THE SECOND WORLD WAR WHEN THEY WERE INTERNED AT SLOCAN CITY IN THE INTERIOR OF BRITISH COLUMBIA BY THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT. THE DONOR'S FATHER, REV. CANON G.G. NAKAYAMA, WAS AN ANGLICAN MINISTER IN VANCOUVER, AND THEN ESTABLISHED THE CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION IN COALDALE IN 1945 WHERE HE SERVED UNTIL 1970. SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041440
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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