BROOCH
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1960
- Materials
- PEWTER, GLASS
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041630
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1960
- Materials
- PEWTER, GLASS
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 1.4
- Diameter
- 3.7
- Description
- CIRCULAR STARBURST PATTERN BROOCH HAS MULTI-ARMED BODY WITH CLEAR GLASS GEMS AT END OF EACH ARM. BROOCH IS FASHIONED FROM PEWTER. ONE STONE IS MISSING.
- Subjects
- ADORNMENT
- Historical Association
- PERSONAL CARE
- History
- BROOCH BELONGED TO DONOR'S MOTHER, LOIS NAKAYAMA. 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
- P19970041630
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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