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Scavenging lumber to build furniture, Central Utah Relocation Project, Topaz, Utah, 1942
Miné Okubo1942-1944
Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, United States
A woman and man, Mine Okubo and her brother Toku, steal lumber at night in order to build partitions and furniture for their room. Toku climbs out of a deep sewer ditch with three long boards of lumber. Mine, in a checkered shirt and jeans, stands above holding another stick of lumber. Mounds of dirt border the ditch.
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- Title: Scavenging lumber to build furniture, Central Utah Relocation Project, Topaz, Utah, 1942
- Creator: Mine Okubo
- Creator Lifespan: 1912-2001
- Date Created: 1942-1944
- Location Created: Topaz (Central Utah)
- Physical Dimensions: H: 9.25 in, W: 13 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, 2007.62.137)
- 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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