PURSE
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- HANDBAG
- Date Range From
- 1940
- Date Range To
- 1950
- Materials
- NYLON, COTTON
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041591
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- HANDBAG
- Date Range From
- 1940
- Date Range To
- 1950
- Materials
- NYLON, COTTON
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 7
- Length
- 30.6
- Width
- 21.5
- Description
- HANDMADE BAG IS HEAVY KNIT GREY MATERIAL FOLDED IN HALF WITH FADED PINK NYLON SWATCHES SEWN IN AS SIDES. TWO FADED PINK NYLON HANDLES ARE SEWN AT TOP CORNERS. BAG IS WORN AND HAS A NUMBER OF SMALL STAINS.
- Subjects
- PERSONAL GEAR
- Historical Association
- PERSONAL CARE
- History
- BAG WAS LIKELY MADE BY DONOR'S MOTHER, LOIS, AND USED AS A HANDBAG. 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
- P19970041591
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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