Mochi-making on New Year's Day, Central Utah Relocation Project, Topaz, Utah, 1942-1944

A woman with a flipped forelock of hair, Mine Okubo, observes mochi-making in the camp kitchen. Three men in the center of the room, pound mochi with large wooden mallets in a wooden tub. A fourth man kneels beside a tub of water used to moisten the mochi. In the background against the wall is a line of ovens. Molded round mochi cakes rest on a counter in the left foreground. Three observers stand in the left midground; a man in a headband and checked shirt looks at them from the right.