Title of Work

Loom and Partially Assembled Bracelet

Creator

Tsujime Ishii

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Owner

Loaned by Northeastern Illinois University Library Archives

Creation Date

1942

Description

A. Tsujime Ishii and her family are from the Sacramento California area. They were in Granada and Tule Lake. Very artistic, she worked with shells, wood, beads, and many mediums to create precious items such as jewelry. To weave she had to make a loom before she could make pink and silver beads from France into a pretty bracelet. They left camp and resettled in Chicago. Granada (Camp Amache) War Relocation Center, Colorado or Tule Lake Segregation Center, California.

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Keywords

Japanese American art, Japanese American internment camps, World War II

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