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![[Caucasian camp policeman checking for suspicious activity, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942]](/internal/media/dispatcher/851/preview)
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[Caucasian camp policeman checking for suspicious activity, 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 number2007.62.61
DescriptionA woman with filpped forelock of hair, Mine Okubo, watches a "Caucasian" camp policeman spying on men playing cards at Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. Dressed in cross-patterned top, Mine peers around the corner of barracks at left to watch a man in hat with buckteeth bend over to look through a knothole. Two men, one smoking a cigarette, are visible throught a window at right playing cards.;1 drawing on paper : ink ; image 9.25 x 13 in., matted 16 x 20 in.
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