Women in White Dresses Posing on a Stage; Tashme, BC

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This image consists of roughly four row of girls posing on a stage after what appears to be a performance. From left to right the first row consists of: a girl kneeling and leaning toward the left, holding up one edge of her dress, a girl kneeling holding herself up with her right hand leaning toward the left and holding up one edge of her dress with one hand, a girl kneeling in the center holding up both edges of her skirt, two girls crouched leaning toward the right holding up one edge of their skirt. The second and third rows mirror the first. There is a painted backdrop behind the girls of palm trees and a moon.

Fumiko Kawata was born in 1938 in Cumberland BC to parents Itoko and Yoshitoshi Kawata. Yoshitoshi's parents were Sowa & Kinshiro Kawata from Ehime prefecture. Kinshiro came to Canada as a farm labourer on the Empress of Russia Dec 19, 1922, his nearest relative at that time was Tomi Kawata of Yanazaki Mura, Nishiwa gori, Ehime Ken, Japan. Itoko and Yoshitoshi were born in Japan and remained Japanese Nationals.

The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.

This record was digitized in full.