Paroquet Pin
notes: label: Description
content: This finished paroquet carving is one of the more vibrantly colored birds. This pin really shows Sadao Oka's ability to mix colors and paint with accuracy. He would spend hours on end mixing colors to find exactly the right shade to match his references. He had paints in his toolbox (accession number 2016.0117.103 and 2016.0117.098) that he would use to create the exact shades he wanted. Painting was one of the most time consuming and important aspects of Mr. Oka's process to create these hyper realistic birds.
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: 2016.0117.017
label: accession number
content: 2016.0117
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0117.017
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
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content: brown (overall color)
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content: yellow (overall color)
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content: orange (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in x 1/4 in; 3.81 cm x 6.35 cm x .635 cm