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Preparing wreaths for Wakasa memorial, Central Utah Relocation Project, Topaz, Utah, 1942-1944
Miné Okubo1942-1944
Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, United States
A woman with a flipped forelock of hair and cross-patterned shirt, Mine Okubo, stands in the right foreground holding a single flower while women around her assemble memorial wreaths for the funeral service of James Wakasa. Five women sit at a table assembling paper flowers, while another, wearing a dark dress and apron stands to decorate a wooden cross with flowers. A sixth woman in the left foreground holds two flowers and waits to place them on the cross.
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- Title: Preparing wreaths for Wakasa memorial, Central Utah Relocation Project, Topaz, Utah, 1942-1944
- Creator: Mine Okubo
- Creator Lifespan: 1912-2001
- Date Created: 1942-1944
- Location Created: Topaz (Central Utah)
- Physical Dimensions: H: 9.75 in, W: 14.5 in
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Japanese American National Museum. For licensing and reuse, contact JANM.
- External Link: Mine Okubo Collection
- Medium: ink, paper
- Credit Line: Japanese American National Museum (Gift of Mine Okubo Estate, 2007.62.179)
- Context: This is one of 198 ink drawings Mine Okubo included in Citizen 13660, her graphic memoir, which was the first of its kind and captured her experience at Tanforan and Topaz, during the two years in which she was incarcerated.
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