Lady Amherst Pheasant Bird Pin
notes: label: Description
content: This is a carving of a Lady Amherst Pheasant by Sadao Oka. One of many birds that he carved, the pheasant is one of the most stunning because of its long, elaborate tail feathers. Mr. Oka was able to paint those fine details that make the design of the tail feathers pop, even though he was in an incarceration camp. To do this he used tiny paint brushes that he kept in his tool box (accession numbers 2016.0117.108 and 2016.0117.109 and 2016.0117.101 and 2016.0117.103), with these he was able to precisely depict all the details he saw from the references in the Audubon identification cards.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Japanese American
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content: Executive Order 9066
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Jane Oka
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0117.084
label: accession number
content: 2016.0117
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0117.084
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
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content: wire (overall material)
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content: black (overall color)
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content: orange (overall color)
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content: brown (overall color)
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content: yellow (overall color)
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content: painted (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 1/2 in x 2 in; 12.7 cm x 1.27 cm x 5.08 cm