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Butsudan, a handmade shrine intended for daily Buddhist practices.

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Sadayuki Uno, who had studied art in California before the war, took up wood carving in the camps. With a sharpened butter knife, he created caricatures of Adolph Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Josef Stalin, and Winston Churchill out of scrap pine wood.

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"Camp Scene" wood carving of the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, an internment camp in Wyoming.

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More than 150 Japanese women signed up for this decorative arts class to make a flowers from tissue paper and paste (1943)

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Jitsuro Hiramoto looked for branches and roots he could sculpt into forms like cranes.

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Mothers created senninbari sashes for their sons being sent overseas to serve in the U.S. Army. These held French knots tied by 1,000 individuals in the community wishing the soldier a long life.

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The artist who made this six-sided wood vase constructed it from a fruit crate and dark and light ironwood found near Gila River.

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Choji Nakan painted 75 individual stylized nature scenes on hard electrical insulation board to make a full Hanafuda card game. Eventually he made a card deck for each camp.

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Edward Jitsue Kurushima, made this working steam train model with tracks out of tin cans, watch parts, paper clips, and bolts.

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Minnie Negoro, who was an art student at UCLA before incarceration, makes pottery at the Heart Mountain ceramics plant in January 1943.

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In 1942, Japanese Americans who just arrived at Granada Relocation Center began to make benches out of the scrap wood construction workers left behind.

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Tani Furuhara made more than a dozen Japanese dolls. Their poses and clothing reflected their status in Japanese society.

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Bird pins carved, painted, and lacquered by Himeko Fukuhara and Kazuko Matsumoto.

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Ryie Yoshizawa leads a fasion design class at Manzanar in 1943.

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Two unpainted pairs of geta (footwear) by Masataro Umeda and a painted pair by Fumi Okuno.

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Gentaro and Shinzaburo Nishiura made this 5-foot-tall butsudan ("Buddhist altar") while incarcerated at Heart Mountain, Wyoming.

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Walking canes made by H. Ezaki at Gila River, Arizona.

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These tools were made by Akira Oye, who melted down scrap metals like discarded saws, car springs, and butter knives in the boiler furnace and hammered his own tools.

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An unnamed inmate carves a patriotic eagle from hardwood in an art class in March 1943

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Mr. Tokieko built this table from the scrap wood and palm branches he found around the camp as a thank-you gift for his former neighbors who took in and nursed his sick daughter back to health.

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An unknown artist made this bouquet from pipe cleaners ordered from a catalog and then protected it with a mayonnaise jar from the kitchen.

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Homei Iseyama carved teapots, teacups, and candy dishes from slate he found around the internment camp. Iseyama had come to America from Japan in 1914 in hopes of attending art school.