4_Amache Dog Carving

Pets_Mace_440A

photo: Charles Mace, Denson, Arkansas, 6/21/1944
WRA title: Closing of the Jerome Center, Denson, Arkansas. Henry Ishino, an evacuee resident of the Jerome Center, shakes hands with his dog, Major, after putting him in a crate for shipment to their new residence at the Gila River Center. Major, no doubt, remembers the long, tiresome trip in the baggage car from Tule Lake to Jerome. Photographer: Mace, Charles E. Denson, Arkansas.

4x3_Sab_Marion_sculpture

photo: David Izu, Fresno, CA, 2017, courtesy of Saburo and Marion Masada
wood carving of dog and cat by Goro Nishimura, 3-11-D, Gila River, AZ. Nishimura was born in Fukuoka, Japan, and was age 59 when removed to Turlock, CA, and then to AZ.

Takamura_hawk

painting: Kango Takamura, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 5/22/1942
Takamura’s caption – “Our pet hawk died on May 22. The following day Mr. Sato of Chula Vista died. But same day over 80 of us internees were released.”
Courtesy of Manzanar National Historic Site and the Kango Takamura Collection

Kooskia_dog_carve

photo: Jessica Goodwin, Kooskia, Idaho
stone carving of dog, about the size of a hand

Amache_dog_sq_1.b

photo: © Joan Myers 1996, from “Whispered Silences”
Rohwer, Arkansas, c 1981 – 1985, “Pet Grave”

Mits,_Sunny_Mas_3x4

photographer unknown
collection of Mas Hashimoto
“Mits, Sunny and Mas at Poston
block 220-12-A”