BLANKET
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- LAP BLANKET
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1960
- Materials
- WOOL
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041668
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- LAP BLANKET
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1960
- Materials
- WOOL
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 0.2
- Length
- 176
- Width
- 144.5
- Description
- RED, GREEN, BLACK AND YELLOW PLAID BLANKET WITH TASSELS ON OPPOSITE ENDS. MANY TASSELS ARE MISSING, MOST ARE WORN. BLANKET HAS ONE 3.5CM LONG HOLE NEAR ONE CORNER.
- Subjects
- BEDDING
- Historical Association
- DOMESTIC
- History
- BLANKET FOUND AMONG THE BELONGINGS OF DONOR'S PARENTS, REV. G.G. AND LOIS NAKAYAMA. DONOR RELATES THAT THEY USED IT TO SIT ON THEIR LAPS TO KEEP WARM. 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
- P19970041668
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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