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Description: .1) BOX. RECTANGULAR WOOD BOX COVERED WITH RED LEATHERETTE. HAS HINGED LID AND STEEL CLASP CLOSURE. LID HAS ORANGE AND GOLD COLORED LABEL WITH JAPANESE PRINTING ON IT. AT MIDDLE OF LABEL IS SKETCH OF A PERSON LYING ON DEVICE WITH DIGESTIVE ORGANS VISIBLE. INSIDE LID IS SECOND ORANGE AND GOLD COLORED LABEL WITH TWO DRAGONS AND JAPANESE WRITING. .2) SUPPORT DEVICE. 14.0CM X 10.2CM X 7.0CM WOOD DEVICE MADE UP OF BASE WITH TWO CYLINDRICAL FEET THAT HAVE LOOSE ROLLERS AT END. ALUMINUM PLATE NAILED TO BASE HAS JAPANESE CHARACTERS AND "TOKYO MADE IN JAPAN". .3) SUPPORT DEVICE. 17.0CM X 13.2CM X 6.5CM WOOD DEVICE MADE UP OF HOUR-GLASS SHAPED BASE WITH FOUR CYLINDRICAL FEET THAT HAVE LOOSE ROLLERS AT END. ALUMINUM PLATE NAILED TO BASE HAS JAPANESE WRITING AND "TOKYO MADE IN JAPAN" ON IT. .4) CUSTOMS DECLARATION. 17.6CM X 8.6CM PAPER CARD WITH BRASS EYEHOLE AT END. FRONT READS "JAPAN FOREIGN PARCEL POST CUSTOM DECLARATION" WITH MAIL STAMPS. BACK HAS ADDRESSES FOR SENDER AND RECEIVER. RECEIVER'S ADDRESS IS "REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA, P.O. BOX 461, COALDALE, ALBERTA, CANADA" AND DATED "DEC. 8, 1958". .5) INSTRUCTION BOOKLET. 18.0CM X 12.6CM PAPER BOOKLET WITH JAPANESE WRITING. FRONT HAS BEFORE AND AFTER PICTURE OF A JAPANESE MAN. .6) ADVERTISEMENT. 26.7CM X 19.1CM PAPER AD SHOWING USE OF SUPPORT DEVICE AND ADVERTISING A MASSAGE ROPE.

History: SUPPORT DEVICE WAS DONOR'S FATHER'S WHO WAS VERY INTERESTED IN ALL MATTER OF HEALTH THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE. THIS IS ONE OF MANY PIECES OF HEALTH ORIENTED EQUIPMENT WHICH REV. NAKAYAMA ACQUIRED THROUGH HIS LIFE. HE ALSO PRACTICED ACUPUNCTURE. NAKAYAMA, 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: “MY DAD WANTED TO BE A DOCTOR… WHAT HE SAID WAS THAT WHEN HIS FIRST CHILD WAS STILLBORN, THAT CHILD WAS, RIGHT UP UNTIL THE BIRTH, IT WAS BEAUTIFUL, HEALTHY, FAT, BUT WHEN HE WAS BORN, THE CORD GOT AROUND THE NECK AND HE STOPPED BREATHING. TRAGIC, AND [MY FATHER] WAS SO HEARTBROKEN, AND SOME MINISTER COMFORTED HIM AND HE FELT THAT THE WOUNDING OF THE HEART IS WHAT HE WANTED TO FOCUS ON. SO HE DECIDED TO BECOME A MINISTER [INSTEAD OF A DOCTOR]. PLUS MY MOM WAS SO DEVOUT, AND HE WAS A METHODIST AND SHE WAS AN ANGLICAN, AND SO, FOR THE SAKE OF THE FAMILY, I GUESS, HE BECAME AN ANGLICAN… [BUT] HE HAD A LOT OF MEDICAL EQUIPMENT, THINGS FOR HEALING...” SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.