Object Details
- Ujihara, Akio
- Description
- "Drum Mountains -Ctr. Utah"
- In 1943, Akio Ujihara along with another internee found a large meteorite just 16 miles west of Topaz Relocation Center at the Drum Mountains. The pair was searching for rocks to use in jewelry when they discovered the 1,164 pound meteorite. Ujihara, who had received a degree from Polytechnic Engineering College at Oakland prior to internment, asserted that this was a unique find that should be studied by the Smithsonian Institution. The meteorite was shortly thereafter delivered into the museum’s possession, and is today in the Natural History Museum’s Collections.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Akio Ujihara
- 1945-08-27
- ID Number
- 1986.3047.10
- catalog number
- 1986.3047.10
- nonaccession number
- 1986.3047
- Object Name
- painting
- Other Terms
- painting; art/graphics
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- watercolor painting (overall production method/technique)
- pencil (overall material)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 11 in x 15 in; 27.94 cm x 38.1 cm
- overall: 9 in x 14 3/4 in; 22.86 cm x 37.465 cm
- place made
- United States: Utah, Topaz War Relocation Center
- associated place; depicted
- United States: Utah, Topaz War Relocation Center
- See more items in
- Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
- Military
- Art
- Japanese American Internment Era
- Title
- Drum Mountain Center, Utah
- National Museum of American History
- content outlines
- Prisoners of War
- depicted
- Trees
- Flowers
- Landscape
- content outlines
- Politics
- related event
- World War II
- Record ID
- nmah_1131483
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-c55f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
