Unfinished Mallard Pin
notes: label: Description
content: This nearly finished mallard carved by Sadao Oka has its first coat of paint done. He painstakingly mixed colors for hours on end until he found the perfect hue that matched the picture from the Audubon bird identification card, or the copy of National Geographic. This particular bird is a replica of the mallard in "The Red Book of Birds of America", both on the cover and on page 22. The process is almost complete, the only things that need to be done is the finishing coat of paint and attach the wire legs. This is one of many delicate birds that Mr. Oka carved and painted while he was imprisoned in Poston incarceration camp in Arizona.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Arizona, Poston
topic: label: Subject
content: World War II
label: related event
content: World War II
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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: 2016.0117.052
label: accession number
content: 2016.0117
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0117.052
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)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
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content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: pink (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 2 in x 1/4 in; 5.08 cm x 5.08 cm x .635 cm