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[Packing and tagging luggage for relocation, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942]
Maker
Miné Okubo
(1912 - 2001)
Date1942-1944
Mediumpaper, ink, mat board
DimensionsH: 9.25 in, W: 13 in
ClassificationsFine Arts
Credit LineGift of Mine Okubo Estate
Object number2007.62.113
DescriptionA woman with flipped forelock of hair, Mine Okubo, packs with her brother, Toku, as they prepare to leave for the Central Utah Relocation Project, also known as Topaz, in their barracks at Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. Dressed in plaid shirt and white pants, Mine actively moves a box behind to wooden beams in foreground; open sack on ground at right; boot beside open box holding mate at left. Toku bends over to put an armful of boxes in a crate, midground right. Cups, pan, coffee pot and bottle sit on table in background, left.;1 drawing on paper : ink ; image 9.25 x 13 in., matted 16 x 20 in.
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