Bald Eagle Pin
notes: label: Description
content: This finished bald eagle is a swooping, majestic bird pin. It really shows how much the birds change from the first step to its final form, the eagle's first carved outline (accession number 2016.0117.061) is drastically different from the powerful final product that Sadao Oka is able to produce. He painstakingly carved in the details of the feathers with just a normal pocket knife found in his tool box (accession number 2016.0117.096), and the level of realism he was able to achieve is fantastic. There was not much else he could do during his imprisonment but find perseverance and resolve in his creativity and art.
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: 2016.0117.027
label: accession number
content: 2016.0117
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0117.027
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
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content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 2 in x 1/4 in; 7.62 cm x 5.08 cm x .635 cm