PESTLE
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- SEED CRUSHER
- Date Range From
- 1940
- Date Range To
- 1950
- Materials
- WOOD
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041555
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- SEED CRUSHER
- Date Range From
- 1940
- Date Range To
- 1950
- Materials
- WOOD
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Length
- 38
- Diameter
- 5.7
- Description
- LARGE WOODEN PESTLE WITH NARROWED HANDLE GRIP. HEAD OF PESTLE HAS A NUMBER OF HALF CIRCLE INDENTATIONS.
- Subjects
- FOOD PROCESSING T&E
- Historical Association
- DOMESTIC
- History
- DONOR RELATES THAT THIS OVERSIZED PESTLE WAS PRIMARILY USED TO CRUSH SEEDS AND OTHERS FOODS IN PREPERATION FOR COOKING. 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
- P19970041555
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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