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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- HUMAN TEETH
- Date Range From
- 1980
- Date Range To
- 1990
- Materials
- ORGANIC MATERIAL, STEEL, VELVETINE
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041463
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- HUMAN TEETH
- Date Range From
- 1980
- Date Range To
- 1990
- Materials
- ORGANIC MATERIAL, STEEL, VELVETINE
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 3
- Length
- 9.3
- Width
- 7.5
- Description
- HINGED BLUE VELVETINE JEWELRY BOX CONTAINS ELEVEN HUMAN MOLARS WHICH ARE DRIED AND YELLOWED. ONE TOOTH IS BROKEN, THREE HAVE METAL FILLINGS.
- Subjects
- ARTIFACT REMNANT
- Historical Association
- PERSONAL CARE
- History
- TEETH WERE THE LAST OF THE DONOR'S FATHER'S TO BE FILLED AND REPLACED WITH DENTURES. DONOR'S FATHER KEPT THEM. 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
- P19970041463
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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