Sadao Oka and Others Working on Bird Pins Photo
notes: label: Description
content: This black and white photograph shows Sadao Oka, along with the rest of the carving class. Mr. Oka adopted the art of carving wooden birds while he was imprisoned in Poston incarceration camp in Arizona. Classes like these became popular in the camps, as there was seldom to do while imprisoned. Japanese Americans weren't allowed to bring much into the camps, but they were still able to come together, and teach each other all kinds of different skills. Art was an easy thing to teach, and Oka was able to learn, and master, the art of carving and painting miniature wooden birds. In this photo Mr. Oka is shown with his tool box, which contained all the tools he used to create his birds. He used these few tools to painstakingly carve and paint each realistic bird.
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: 2016.0117.059
label: accession number
content: 2016.0117
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0117.059
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
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content: white (overall color)
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content: printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in x in; 19.05 cm x 24.13 cm x .00254 cm