evinumen: These wooden  birds, carved inside World War II-era Japanese American internment camps, are a sampling of the artwork in “The Art of Gaman” by Delphine Hirasuna. The bird’s tiny legs were crafted from the surplus snipped off the wire mesh screens over barrack windows. http://www.sfsu.edu/~sfsumag/archive/spring_06/final.html

evinumen:

These wooden  birds, carved inside World War II-era Japanese American internment camps, are a sampling of the artwork in “The Art of Gaman” by Delphine Hirasuna. The bird’s tiny legs were crafted from the surplus snipped off the wire mesh screens over barrack windows.

http://www.sfsu.edu/~sfsumag/archive/spring_06/final.html