[Community showering, 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 number2007.62.76

Description1 drawing on paper : ink ; image 9.25 x 13 in., matted 16 x 20 in. A woman with flipped forelock of hair, Mine Okubo, walks through the community women's showers at Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. Visible from the waist up, Mine walks past the end of the shower stalls away from viewer in foreground left. Four nude women shower in stalls that are only partially partitioned without doors; one woman wears geta and a headkerchief as she prepares to enter a barrel sitting in shower stall. On the deck in front of the showers a woman washes a child standing in a tub.;