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[Filling tick mattresses with straw, 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 number2007.62.45
DescriptionA woman with strands of forelock in her face, Mine Okubo, gathers straw into bags of ticking with her brother, Toku, to make their mattresses on the racetrack at Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. Both wear cuffed jeans; Mine in a cross-patterned shirt and Toku in a pullover. Toku holds straw straw at right as Mine stuffs bag on left. Barracks are visible at top left corner behind the stack of hay.;1 drawing on paper : ink ; image 9.25 x 13 in., matted 16 x 20 in.
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