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[Dancing couple in barracks, 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 number2007.62.67
DescriptionA woman with flipped forelock of hair, Mine Okubo, watches a couple dancing the jitterbug while a neighbor tries to sleep on the other side of a partition inside barracks at Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. In this cutaway view, the image is bisected by an incomplete wooden partition with a man clutching his head as he lies in bed under covers below a knothole at right. Meanwhile, Mine sits in center foreground, head and shoulders visible, as a couple dance beside partially visible radio playing music; top of dancer's heads cut off.;1 drawing on paper : ink ; image 9.25 x 13 in., matted 16 x 20 in.
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