Unfinished Wooden Bird Pin
notes: label: Description
content: This unfinished bird shows the first step of Sadao Oka's carving process. He would trace the outline of the bird, in this case a bald eagle, onto an old leftover piece of wood, and carve out the outline using a small saw found in his tool box (accession numbers 2016.0117.097 and 2016.0117.107). He would cut out the wings and some small details, but the realism does not come until he takes this 2D shape, and masterfully carves it into a 3D bird.
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 Jane Oka
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0117.061
label: accession number
content: 2016.0117
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0117.061
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 3 in x 1/2 in; 7.62 cm x 7.62 cm x 1.27 cm