Baby Identification Bracelet
notes: label: Description
content: Even though Japanese Americans were confined to the concentration camps, they tried as hard as they could to carry on normal life. This meant everyday things as well as celebrating events like birthdays, life, and death. A lot of babies were born within camps, and the prisoners within the incarceration camps would still gather and celebrate these moments.
label: Description
content: The hospital made bracelets like these to distinguish between the babies that were born within camp. The baby this bracelet identified was Marlene Shigekawa. She was born in the Poston concentration camp, but later in life she was known for writing a children's book about the Japanese American incarceration, "Blue Jay in The Desert". The book talks about how blue jays, much like the Japanese Americans, don't belong in the desert, and how the blue jay represents the Japanese ideals of loyalty and bravery. This story is truly represented in the way Japanese Americans acted when they were incarcerated, they were incredibly brave, and tried to carry on normal life as best they could.
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 Marlene Shigekawa
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0275.01
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0275.01
label: accession number
content: 2016.0275
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bracelet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: beads (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 2 in x 1/8 in; 5.08 cm x 5.08 cm x .3175 cm