Material Type

Artifact

Other Name

JAPANESE MEDICAL DEVICE

Date Range From

1970

Date Range To

1980

Materials

PLASTIC, RUBBER, STEEL

No. Pieces

5

Description

.1) PUMP. CYLINDRICAL GREY PLASTIC PUMP WITH RUBBER HOSE AND BLACK RUBBER NOZZLE. JAPANESE CHARACTERS ARE RAISED ALONG EDGE OF PUMP CYLINDER. .2) SUCTION CUPS. FOUR CLEAR PLASTIC BELL SHAPED CUPS WITH BROWN RUBBER SEALS. EACH HAS JAPANESE CHARACTERS RAISED ALONG TOP EDGES.

Subjects

MEDICAL & DENTAL T&E

Historical Association

HEALTH SERVICES

History

MEDICAL DEVICE OF UNKNOWN USE WAS COLLECTED BY DONOR'S FATHER WHO ORIGINALLY WANTED TO BE A DOCTOR AND CONTINUED TO BE INTERESTED IN ALL MANNER OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH ISSUES THROUGH HIS LIFE AFTER BECOMING AN ANGLICAN PRIEST. 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: “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.

Catalogue Number

P19970041445

Acquisition Date

1997-01

Collection

Museum

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