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[Scavenging for building materials, 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 number2007.62.51
DescriptionA woman with flipped forelock of hair, Mine Okubo, forages for lumber with her brother, Toku, to fix their living quarters, a former horse stall at Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. Dressed in a cross-patterned jacket, Mine holds a plank while standing atop scrap-lumber pile. Toku, in jeans and striped pullover, pulls another plank from pile at right. The back of the head and shoulders of a man in a hat is visible in foreground. A row of five barracks stands in background left, behind piles of lumber and saw horses.;1 drawing on paper : ink ; image 9.25 x 13 in., matted 16 x 20 in.
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