CLAVE

Description: CYLINDRICAL LENGTH OF HARDWOOD WITH DARK FINISH. FINISH IS WORN LIGHT AT ONE END. OPPOSITE END HAS SEVERAL SMALL GOUGES.

History: CLAVE PERCUSSION STICK BELONGED TO DONOR'S FAMILY. NO SPECIFIC PROVENANCE. 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. *UPDATE* IN 2015 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT JANE EDMUNDSON CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. SHE CONTACTED THE DONOR, JOY KOGAWA, BY EMAIL ON DECEMBER 2, 2015, TO ASK IF KOGAWA HAD ANY MEMORY OF THE CLAVE BEING USED BY THE FAMILY. KOGAWA WROTE: "I DON'T HAVE ANY MEMORY OF IT BEING USED. WE JUST HAD SO MANY MYSTERIOUS THINGS." ADDITIONALLY, GENERALLY CLAVES ARE PLAYED IN PAIRS, WITH ONE STICK HITTING THE OTHER TO PRODUCE RHYTHMIC SOUND. ONLY ONE CLAVE WAS DONATED AS PART OF THIS GIFT, HOWEVER. SEE PERMANENT FILE FOR HARDCOPY OF EMAIL FROM DONOR.