Unmarked Institutionalware Dish

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Unmarked Institutionalware Dish from Kooskia Internment Camp (10-2-750, MNV 156)

Located in northern Idaho, the Kooskia Internment Camp was a World War II Department of Justice internment camp (see https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Sites_of_incarceration#Department_of_Justice_Internment_Camp ) that incarcerated over 260 Japanese men, many of whom were long-time residents of the United States but were deemed “enemy aliens” by the U.S. government from 1943 to 1945.

For more information visit https://internmentarchaeology.org/record/artifact/217-842-49/

Digitized as part of the National Park Service funded Internment Archaeology Digital Archive Project (www.internmentarchaeology.org) - a collaboration between the Michigan State University Department of Anthropology, the MSU Digital Heritage Innovation Lab, and Matrix: The Center for Digital Humanities & Social Sciences; Directed by Stacey Camp and Ethan Watrall