CLOTH FRAGMENT
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- CHAIR COVER REMNANTS
- Date Range From
- 1930
- Date Range To
- 1940
- Materials
- COTTON
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041460
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- CHAIR COVER REMNANTS
- Date Range From
- 1930
- Date Range To
- 1940
- Materials
- COTTON
- No. Pieces
- 2
- Height
- 0.1
- Length
- 63.5
- Width
- 40
- Description
- TWO RECTANGULAR PIECES OF VERY COLORFUL CLOTH WITH LOOSE WEAVES ALONG EDGES. EACH PIECE HAS ALTERNATING SETS OF BACKGROUND STRIPS WHICH ARE PINK, BLUE, GREEN AND PURPLE. EMBROIDERED PATTERN IS OF TWO PEACOCK TYPE BIRDS WITH PLANT AND SCROLL WORK DESIGN EMBROIDERY AROUND THEM.
- Subjects
- ARTIFACT REMNANT
- Historical Association
- DOMESTIC
- History
- FABRIC WAS PART OF COVERS USED ON CHAIRS ORIGINALLY OWNED BY DONOR'S FAMILY WHEN THEY LIVED IN VANCOUVER BEFORE RELOCATION DURING WORLD WAR II. 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
- P19970041460
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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