BOX

Description: RECTANGULAR BLACK WOOD BOX WITH HINGED LID AND BRASS LOCK CLASP ON FRONT. BOX IS COVERED WITH BLACK LEATHERETTE CLOTH WHICH IS VERY WORN ALONG CORNERS AND EDGES. LID HAS TWO HOLES FROM MISSING HANDLE.

History: DONOR RELATES THAT THIS BOX WAS MADE BY HER BROTHER, TIMOTHY, FOR HER FATHER TO USE FOR CARRYING HIS FILM EQUIPMENT. DONOR'S FATHER WAS AN AVID PHOTOGRAPHER AND FILMMAKER IN HIS SPARE TIME. 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: "[THIS] WAS QUITE HEAVY, [AND MY FATHER] CARRIED IT ALL OVER JAPAN IN 1949... AS A COMMUNICATOR, IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR HIM TO CARRY EQUIPMENT THAT HE WOULD USE FOR COMMUNICATING. [THIS] BOX WAS MADE BY MY BROTHER IN COALDALE, AND COVERED OVER WITH BLACK PAPER TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE A PROPER CARRYING THING [BUT] IT WAS WOODEN... HE BELIEVED IN TRAVELING LIGHT [SO] HE WOULDN'T HAVE CARRIED AROUND THINGS LIKE THIS UNLESS THERE WAS SOME REAL PURPOSE FOR IT... HE DID CARRY THE MOVIE PROJECTOR WHEN... HE HAD TO SHOW HIS FILMS." SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.