DOILY
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1960
- Materials
- COTTON
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041583
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1960
- Materials
- COTTON
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 0.1
- Diameter
- 16
- Description
- WHITE AND GREEN HANDMADE CROCHET DOILY. DOILY IS GENERALLY CIRCULAR IN SHAPE WITH GREEN CENTER AND GREEN RING AROUND MIDDLE. MIDDLE HAS OPEN WEAVE AND EDGE HAS TRIANGULAR DESIGNS SIDE BY SIDE AROUND WHOLE BODY. SOME RUST STAINS AND EDGING HAS COME LOOSE IN SEVERAL PLACES.
- Subjects
- HOUSEHOLD ACCESSORY
- Historical Association
- DOMESTIC
- History
- DOILY WAS A HOUSEHOLD ITEM OF DONOR'S FAMILY WHILE THEY LIVED IN COALDALE. 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
- P19970041583
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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