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1. Ashtray and Stand Made by Seiichiro Ishida at Topaz Internment Camp, c. 1942-1945 - Stand

   Ashtray and Stand Made by Seiichiro Ishida at Topaz Internment Camp, c. 1942-1945. Ashtray stand made of found objects at Topaz internment camp by Seiichiro Ishida, donor's father. The stand is made of wood (probably found driftwood) and is carved like the shape of a body of a giraffe with a long neck, and legs and the head of a bird including a beak. It is related to the glass ashtray (.2), which sits on top of carved wooden stand (.1). (.1) At...

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2. Basket with flowers shell pin, c. 1942-1945. - Brooch

   Basket with flowers shell pin, c. 1942-1945. This pin made of tiny white shells that are shaped like flowers in a variety of colors (white, pink, purple). The tiny white shells are spread out next to green fabric shaped like leaves in a brown painted string basket that is shaped like a shell. On top of the brown painted string basket, is a brown painted string loop that goes from the back of the shell shaped basket to the front. Mounted on the ba...

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3. Bouquet of Flowers Shell Pin, c. 1942-1945 - Brooch

   Bouquet of Flowers Shell Pin, c. 1942-1945. This pin is round in shape and is made of shells in a variety of sizes (tiny, small, and large), and painted in white, and pink flowers. The pin is surrounded in white shells with pink tiny shells in the middle of the white shells, green painted shells that look like leaves surrounding the white big shells painted in pink, white big shells painted in pink that look like three flowers which are surrounde...

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4. Chair, c.1942-1945 - Chair

   Chair, c.1942-1945. It was made in Rohwer, Arkansas at the Rohwer War Relocation Center during WWII. It includes a wooden seat back, a seat connected perpendicularly from the seat back and the wooden legs,and small thin boards that connect horizontally and vertically near the four wooden legs. Its seat back is slightly tilted, and connect to its top rail board, and the left and right side of the wooden seat. On the front of the top rail, it has ...

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5. Chair made by Kanichi Eguchi at Rohwer, Arkansas Relocation Center, c. 1942-1945 - Chair

   Chair made by Kanichi Eguchi at Rohwer, Arkansas Relocation Center, c. 1942-1945. Wooden chair (shaped like an h) made in Rohwer, Arkansas Relocation Center by donor's father-in-law. It has a slightly tilted wooden seat back, four wooden legs, a seat connected to the top of four wooden legs, and the stretcher, which is the horizontal support elements joining the the four wooden legs . The slightly tilted seat back are 2 by 2 small thin wooden bo...

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6. Flower Design Sketchbook, 1943-1944 - Sketchbook

   Sketchbook belonging to Yoshiko Yamanouchi. Small spiral-bound sketchbook with 54 ruled leaves and brown cover, hand-numbered in red per illustration (not per page), beginning on the reverse side of leaf 8 as page 1, until page 62. Reads right to left. Pages are filled with sketches by Yamanouchi of floral arrangements in pencil, ink, and watercolor, with notes in Japanese and dates in English - earliest is November 19th, 1943 (on page numbered a...

   Record Type: Archive

   
7. Flowers in a blue basket shell pin, c. 1942-1945 - Brooch

   Flowers in a blue basket shell pin, c. 1942-1945. This pin is made of tiny white shells shaped like small flowers with a variety of colors (white, yellow and purple). The tiny white shells are glued to some wood that is round in shape, and painted in blue throughout with columns of white lines underneath the tiny white shells. At the top of the blue painted round wooden pin, there is some string painted in blue and that is looped around the left ...

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8. Green fish pin (brooch), c. 1942-1945 - Brooch

   Green fish pin (brooch), c. 1942-1945. This pin is in green, and made of plastic. It is shaped like a fish with two white small eyes painted around the plastic border of the circles on the pin, a small opening that appears to be his mouth, a small fin with lines indented and stretched across it diagonally, and a small tail with indented lines that is shaped like part of triangle. At the bottom, part of the pin has a square like hole, which is abo...

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9. Japanese Americans and World War II: Mass Removal, Imprisonment, and Redress - Hata, Donald Teruo and Nadine Ishitani

   Japanese Americans and World War II: Mass Removal, Imprisonment, and Redress by Donald Teruo Hata and Nadine Ishitani Hata. First published in 1974; 3rd edition published 2006. Illustrated. 35 pages.

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10. Japanese Fish Pin, c. 1942-1945 - Brooch

    Black Japanese Fish Pin, c. 1942-1945. Carved and painted wood pin made in the Topaz Utah Internment Center. Fish has detailed carvings of fins, eyes, and mouth, as well as detailed scales painted on. Fish is a long, narrow type with a long dorsal fin and a slightly open mouth. Pin only displays fish in profile. Base color is dark yellow, with details in black, white, and orange. Reverse is partially painted in the base color, with a large sectio...

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11. Japanese Fish Pin, c. 1942-1945 - Brooch

    Red Japanese Fish Pin, c. 1942-1945. Carved and painted wood pin made in the Topaz Utah Internment Center. Fish has detailed carvings of fins, eyes, and mouth, as well as detailed scales painted on. Fish has a tall, oblong body with a tall, fringed dorsal fin and a slightly open mouth. Pin only displays fish in profile. Base color is dark yellow, with details in red, white, orange, and black. Reverse is partially painted in the base color, with a...

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12. Japanese Fish Pin, c. 1942-1945 - Brooch

    Red Japanese Fish Pin, c. 1942-1945. Carved and painted wood pin made in the Topaz Utah Internment Center. Fish has detailed carvings of fins, eyes, and mouth, as well as detailed scales painted on. Fish has a tall, oblong body with a tall, fringed dorsal fin and a slightly open mouth. Pin only displays fish in profile. Base color is dark yellow, with details in red, white, orange, and black. Reverse is partially painted in the base color, with a...

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13. Shellwork Basket Pin, c. 1942-1945 - Shellwork

    Japanese Internment Camp Shell Art Pin, c. 1942-1944. Pin in the likeness of a woven basket of foxglove stalks. Pin is a flat shell-shaped woven basket made of twine with a braided handle. Sticking out of the basket are 12 wrapped wire stalks affixed with tiny curled shells painted purple, blue, pink, and yellow, or left white. There are also thin leaves made of green grosgrain ribbon. The basket has a slightly concave shape. On the back of the b...

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14. Shellwork Blackberry Pin, c. 1942-1945 - Shellwork

    Japanese Internment Camp Shell Art Boutonniere, c. 1942-1944. 6 stems of wrapped wires in green and brown, joined at the bottom with floral tape, making an arrangement of leaves and blackberries. Two leaves made of mother of pearl painted orange and brown and backed with green fabric. Two stems painted green and twisted into tight curls. Two blackberries made of clusters of snail shells painted purple. Made by Yoshiko Yamanouchi while intern...

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15. Shellwork Floral Pin, c. 1942-1945 - Shellwork

    Japanese Internment Camp Shell Art Pin, November 13th, 1944. Round wood pin covered with clusters of seashells to look like flowers. Outside row of pink clam shell halves. Six clusters of clam shells to look like water lilies in the center, surrounded by tiny snail shells. Three clusters of white shells, and three clusters of 5 blue shells with one yellow snail shell in the center. Surrounding snail shells to fill the space are a mix of white, bl...

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16. Shellwork Floral Sculpture, c. 1942-1945 - Shellwork

    Japanese Internment Camp Art, c. 1942-1944. Tiny figurine of a clay pot with man-made floral arrangement. Pot is two-tiered and hand-built with a hole through the bottom, painted ombre yellow and orange with a brown lip. Two floral stems in the pot. One is made to look like a twisting branch of cherry blossom buds with pink beads and white fabric flowers, and green paint on the branch in places. The other is is dark yellow fabric stalks with two ...

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17. Shellwork Floral Spray, c. 1942-1945 - Shellwork

    Japanese Internment Camp Shell Art Boutonniere, c.1942-1944. Boutonniere made of shells and wire to look like a small flower arrangement. 12 green wrapped-wire stems, each with a flower at the end, gathered into a loop with floral tape at the base, with a pink ribbon bow around the stems. The flowers are made of tiny clamshell halves painted and glued together. Three are large clusters of pink shells to look like peonies, three are small clusters...

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18. Shellwork Heart Pin, c. 1942-1945 - Shellwork

    Japanese Internment Camp Shell Art Heart Pin, c. 1942-1944. Heart-shaped wooden pin, painted and with shell details. Pin is painted blue with brown stalks and two-toned green leaves. Pink shell details make two three-dimensional roses and one rose bud. Around the edge is a border of white shells. A pin is glued to the back. Made by Yoshiko Yamanouchi while interned at Topaz internment camp in Utah.

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19. Shellwork Iris Pin, c. 1942-1945 - Shellwork

    Japanese Internment Camp Shell Art Boutonniere, c. 1942-1944. 6 stems of wrapped wires in green with three long leaves and clusters of shells to look like irises. Three light blue and three purple clusters of shells painted with yellow stripes to look like irises at the end of the stems. Stems are gathered at the bottom in a loop and wrapped with floral tape. Made by Yoshiko Yamanouchi while interned at Topaz internment camp in Utah.

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20. Shellwork Lovebird Pin, c. 1942-1945 - Shellwork

    Japanese Internment Camp Shell Art Bird Pin, April 6th, 1945. Small pin with clusters of painted seashells made to look like two doves. Birds are oriented toward each other, but facing out. Some shells have been cut into shards to make the shapes of the wings and tail feathers. The bottoms are dotted with black, with two black dots on each head for eyes and a small red triangle for a beak. Made by Yoshiko Yamanouchi while interned at Topaz in...

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21. Shellwork Rasberries, c. 1942-1945 - Shellwork

    Japanese Internment Camp Shell Art Boutonniere, October 21st, 1944. Boutonniere made of wrapped wire stems with shell clusters made to look like raspberries tied with a green ribbon. 8 green wrapped-wire stems, looped at the bottom and wrapped with floral tape, then tied around with an olive green ribbon bow. Three stems have mother of pearl fragments shaped into leaves and painted green. Five stems have beehive-shaped clusters of tiny snail shel...

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22. Shellwork Rose Pin, c. 1942-1945 - Shellwork

    Japanese Internment Camp Shell Art Pin, August 12, 1944. Circular wooden pin base decorated with various painted shells made to look like a flower arrangement. Arrangement has tiny clamshells painted pink and arranged in 3 clusters to look like peonies, with shards of mother of pearl painted green for leaves. Three more clusters, each of five clamshells painted light blue and one snail shell painted yellow. Background of unpainted snail shells, a...

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23. Shellwork Rose Pin, c. 1942-1945 - Shellwork

    Japanese Internment Camp Shell Art Heart Pin, c. 1942-1944. Round wooden backings with shells glued to it to make a heart-shaped silhouette with a floral arrangement, and a white ribbon wrapped around a tuft of cotton at the bottom. White shells arranged on their sides around the edge. In the center, rows of white snail shells at the top, then yellow snail shells, then a large cluster of pink shells to make a rose, surrounded by pink shells, leav...

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24. Shellwork Rose Spray, c. 1942-1945 - Shellwork

    Japanese Internment Camp Shell Art Boutonniere, November 20, 1944. Boutonniere made of 9 green wrapped-wire stems with clusters of shell flowers and tied with a pink ribbon bow. Stems are gathered in a loop at the bottom. Four clusters are pink clam shell halves in an open cluster with one pink snail shell in the center. One cluster is a small bud of the pink clam shells. The Other four stems have a row each of snail shells, unpainted white, sepa...

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25. Shellwork Rose Spray, c. 1942-1945 - Shellwork

    Japanese Internment Camp Shell Art Pin, c. 1942-1944. 7 wrapped-wire stems with white flowers made of shells and two leaves, gathered at the base with floral tape. Two green fabric leaves near the bottom of the arrangement. Five stems with many clusters of two white snail shells, about .5" apart. Two large clusters of white clamshells mounted on rounds of plaster. Made by Yoshiko Yamanouchi while interned at Topaz internment camp in Utah.

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