Wood Carving Tools
notes: label: Description
content: Another one of Sadao Oka's few carving tools. This is a large wedge that he used to carve in details and lines into the three dimensional birds. Tools like this were important for his art because with these he was able to add in details that make them look much more realistic than they would have otherwise. The supply of materials and tools that he and his carving class had was extremely limited due to their incarceration so whatever tools they did have became very important.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Japanese American
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content: Executive Order 9066
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of June Oka
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0117.110
label: accession number
content: 2016.0117
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0117.110
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tool
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: orange (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/4 in x 3/4 in x 1/2 in; 13.335 cm x 1.905 cm x 1.27 cm