Western Tanager Bird Pin
notes: label: Description
content: This carving of a western tanager is a bright bird created by Sadao Oka. It is a delicately made bird carved from old wood with minimal tools. While Mr. Oka was forced to stay in an incarceration camp he spent the majority of his free time mastering the art of carving birds out of wood. This bird has small legs made out of wire, wrapped in thread, and its realism comes from the pictures in the Audubon identification cards and other books that Mr. Oka used as a reference. The details on this bird is mostly from paint, he used different colors to suggest detailed feathers along with the facial features of the bird.
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: 2016.0117.092
label: accession number
content: 2016.0117
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0117.092
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
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content: wire (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
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content: brown (overall color)
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content: gold (overall color)
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content: orange (overall color)
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content: yellow (overall color)
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content: red (overall color)
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content: painted (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 2 in x 1/2 in; 2.54 cm x 5.08 cm x 1.27 cm