Japanese American and friend digging for shells
PARTNER
Densho
Visit partner
OBJECT ID
ddr-densho-2-60 (Legacy UID: denshopd-p2-00060)
PARENT COLLECTION
DESCRIPTION
Jimmie Yorita (right) digs for shells used by people in camp to make jewelry. His sister, Patsy (left), and Neal Frost, son of one of the camp's teachers, sift the dirt. Tule Lake was drained in the early 1900s. The camp was located on the old lake bed, where camp inmates found shells for making jewelry to sell to camp personnel. Shells were scarce, and digging became competitive. To beat the rush, some Japanese Americans got up at sunrise and dug waist-deep holes in order to find the shells. Some had homemade wire sieves for sifting the sand.
DATE
c.1943
OBJECT GENRE
Photographs
OBJECT FORMAT
Still Image
FACILITY
CREATORS
PERSONS/ORGANIZATIONS
CONTRIBUTOR
Densho
PREFERRED CITATION
Courtesy of the Bain Family Collection
RIGHTS
Copyright restricted
