BOX

Description: RECTANGULAR WOOD BOX HAS LIGHT FINISH WITH RED ORIGAMI FIGURE ON LID SURROUNDED BY WHITE FLOWER PETALS. AT TOP RIGHT OF COVER ARE JAPANESE CHARACTERS IN WHITE. ON BOTTOM OF BOX ARE NUMEROUS JAPANESE CHARACTERS IN BLACK INK ALONG WITH DATE "1949.8.15". BOX IS BROKEN ON ONE SIDE AND LID IS FREE FROM BOTTOM WITH SPLIT AT BOTTOM LEFT.

History: BOX WAS CONTAINER FOR PROJECTILE POINTS COLLECTED BY DONOR'S FATHER, REV. G.G NAKAYAMA. HE AND HIS FAMILY MOVED TO COALDALE IN 1945 AFTER BEING RELOCATED FROM VANCOUVER IN 1942 TO SLOCAN CITY IN THE INTERIOR OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. AT COALDALE HE FOUNDED THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION WHERE HE WAS RECTOR FROM 1945 TO 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: “I DON’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT WHERE THE BOX CAME FROM, BUT THESE ARE ARROWHEADS, AND I THINK THAT THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO DAD, BY WHOM I DO NOT KNOW… HE WAS ALWAYS INTERESTED IN HISTORICAL THINGS OF ANY KIND [AND] HE KEPT THINGS THAT WERE GIVEN TO HIM, HE WOULD HAVE NEVER THROWN THEM OUT…” SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.