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[Frances Klein and Okinawan dance kimono, California, March 13, 1950]
[Frances Klein and Okinawan dance kimono, California, March 13, 1950]
[Frances Klein and Okinawan dance kimono, California, March 13, 1950]

[Frances Klein and Okinawan dance kimono, California, March 13, 1950]

Date1950
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.18
Description5 negatives : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, March 13, 1951, Japanese section.;Frances Klein of the MRA, receives an Okinawan dance ryusou (also known as ushinchi) with bingata design, California, March 13, 1951. Klein, a Caucasian woman dressed in a dark suit with eyeglasses and curly hair, admires and tries on ryusou with assistance of man in suit. Also includes Klein reading Japanese American newspaper, Rafu Shimpo.

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