PINCUSHION
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1960
- Materials
- COTTON
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041496
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1960
- Materials
- COTTON
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 2.7
- Length
- 12
- Width
- 8.2
- Description
- PINCUSHION IS GREEN FELT FIGURE WITH BIG HEAD, BIG EARS AND A RED HEART ON FOREHEAD. FIGURE ALSO HAS FLAP ARMS, TAIL AND NYLON CORD ON TOP OF ITS HEAD.
- Subjects
- TEXTILEWORKING T&E
- Historical Association
- DOMESTIC
- History
- DONOR RELATES THAT THIS PINCUSHION WAS ONE OF HER MOTHER'S SEWING ITEMS AND THAT SHE REMEMBERS BEING FOND OF IT AS A CHILD. 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
- P19970041496
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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