PIN

Description: RECTANGULAR WOODEN PIN WITH "MAKOTO" HAND CARVED IN RELIEF. "NAKAYAMA" IS CARVED INTO BOTTOM PART OF PIN. BACK OF PIN HAS SAFETY PIN FASTENED WITH PLASTIC CEMENT.

History: CARVED PIN WAS MADE FOR DONOR'S BROTHER WHILE AT SLOCAN CITY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR. BROTHER'S JAPANESE NAME WAS MAKOTO BUT ALSO HAD THE ENGLISH NAME OF TIM. THE FAMILY MOVED TO COALDALE FOLLOWING THE WAR WHERE DONOR'S FATHER FOUNDED THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION. TIM ALSO GREW UP TO BE AN ANGLICAN PRIEST. 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, AND MATCHING PIN P19970041073, KOGAWA SAID: “[THESE PINS] WERE GIVEN TO US BY SOMEBODY AND THEN I… PAINTED THE LETTERS BLACK ON MINE… [THEY WERE] MADE IN SLOCAN, BY SOMEBODY FROM THE COMMUNITY… SOMEBODY JUST CARVED THEM OUT… THESE WERE KEPT BY TIM.” SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY. *UPDATE* IN 2018, COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT ELISE PUNDYK CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF PERSONAL ARTIFACTS. NO FURTHER INFORMATION FOR THIS ITEM WAS DISCOVERED.