DOLL

Description: SMALL PLASTER BABY DOLL WRAPPED IN RAYON CLOTH WHICH IS ORANGE, WHITE AND RED. BABY HAS RED FRILLED GARMENT ON. TWO COTTON FILLED PILLOWS HAVE FALLEN OFF AND ARE LOOSED WITH DOLL.

History: DOLL BELONGED TO DONOR'S FAMILY AND WAS KEPT IN THE BUFFET. POSSIBLY A SPECIAL ITEM BROUGHT FROM JAPAN. DOLL IS MENTIONED IN DONOR'S NOVEL "OBASAN". 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. FROM AUGUST 29 TO 31, 2011 COLLECTIONS TECHNICIAN KEVIN MACLEAN INTERVIEWED THE DONOR, JOY KOGAWA, ABOUT HER MEMORIES ASSOCIATED WITH SPECIFIC OBJECTS THAT SHE DONATED IN 1997. OF THIS ARTIFACT, KOGAWA SAID: “I ALWAYS USED TO SEE THIS TINY LITTLE DOLL… IT SAT IN THE BUFFET, A LITTLE DECORATION. I GUESS MY MOM JUST LOVED IT. IT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS SHE BOUGHT AND KEPT. I DON’T KNOW HOW MANY THINGS SHE HAD TO LEAVE [OR] WHY SHE WOULD KEEP THIS LITTLE TINY THING.” SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.