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Summertime heat and mosquitos, Central Utah Reloction Project, Topaz, Utah, 1942-1944
Miné Okubo1942-1944
Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, United States
A woman in a cross-patterned shirt, Mine Okubo, stands in the foreground of an outdoor scene next to a woman covering her face and holding a rolled sheet of paper. They are attempting to protect themselves from mosquitos that swarm around them. Mosquitos bred in Topaz because of the area's nonabsorbant alkaline soil. A man in the distance is also swarmed by mosquitos. Barracks and one electric pole fill the midground.
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- Title: Summertime heat and mosquitos, Central Utah Reloction Project, Topaz, Utah, 1942-1944
- Creator: Mine Okubo
- Creator Lifespan: 1912-2001
- Date Created: 1942-1944
- Location Created: Topaz (Central Utah)
- Physical Dimensions: H: 9.25 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, 2007.62.187)
- 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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