Lena Young from FB
5 January 2020
Bird pins (brooches) made out of scrap materials by Japanese Americans held in internment camps during World War II.
From The Art of Gaman: Arts & Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps 1942-1946 by Delphine Hirasuna (Ten Speed Press, 2005).
Gaman is a Japanese term of Zen Buddhist origin which means “enduring the seemingly unbearable with patience and dignity”.
I posted it a couple of years ago – and love it still.