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[Walter S. Spellman dancing odori, Los Angeles, California, August 28, 1955]
Maker
Toyo Miyatake Studio
Maker
Miyatake, Toyo
(1895 - 1979)
Maker
Rafu Shimpo
Date1955
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.545
Description1 negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.;Walter S. Spellman, 60 year old bachelor who has danced in Nisei Week in Little Tokyo since 1948, dances odori in happi coat, black satin pants, and hachimaki headband, Los Angeles, California, August 28, 1955. Caucasian man faces right, raising both arms above his hands with proper left knee raised. He holds wooden clappers, or kachi kachi, in his hands.
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Mitsuoka, Norio
ca. 1947-1948
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