DOLL

Description: HUMAN FIGURE HAS PLASTER HEAD WITH SHORT BLACK HAIR AND HAS ORANGE COLORED KIMONO FOR CLOTHING. RIGHT HAND IS FIST AND LEFT HAND IS OPEN. LEGS AND HEAD ARE EXTREMELY LOOSE. HAIR ON HEAD IS PEELING OFF AND BACK OF NECK IS CRACKED.

History: DOLL BELONGED TO DONOR AS A CHILD AND 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: “WHEN THIS DOLL CAME I DO NOT KNOW, I NEVER REALLY PLAYED WITH IT… IT WAS MORE ORNAMENTAL… I KNOW I LOOKED AT IT A LOT, BUT I WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PLAY WITH IT, BECAUSE IT WAS PRECIOUS, AND COULDN’T BE UNDRESSED… IT WOULD HAVE BEEN [DISPLAYED] IN THE BUFFET… JUST THERE AND FRAGILE.” SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.