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Bacon Hill, New Britain
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Maker: Jones, Vernon Walker, Ralph
This diorama depicts the difficulties experienced by men of the 14th/32nd Australian Infantry Battalion in their attack on Bacon Hill (known to the Japanese as Mount Sugi) on 17 March 1945. Strongly h...ART41049
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Boy from Arawe
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Maker: Walker, Ralph
Sketch of a native male from Arawe, New Britain where the skull is bound in infancy to produce this peculiar elongated effect.ART29152
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Camp of Indian prisoners, Rabaul
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Maker: Herman, Sali
Depicts camp in jungle for Indian prisoners of Japanese. The Japanese put the camps mostly into gullies so they could watch them better from the top. The huts were put up in a circular disposition. Wh...ART22888
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Cherry blossoms
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Maker: Murayama, I
A river winding through a snow covered Japanese landscape, with several houses, pine trees and mountains. It was painted by Lieutenant Colonel Murayama, the Commanding Officer of surrendered Japanese ...ART91941
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Invasion barges at launching bay, Boggy Creek, Brisbane
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
The development of these all-welded steel landing barges was the work of the Ford Motor Company in Brisbane in conjunction with naval and military engineers. The first barge to be built measured only ...ART25585
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Japanese ack-ack guns ready for surrender, New Britain
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Maker: Herman, Sali
After the surrender the Japanese assembled arms and equipment to hand it over. Reviewing the area outside Rabaul the artist noticed the Ack-Ack guns covered with tarpaulines, looking like eagles in ro...ART22887
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Japanese POW
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Maker: Walker, Ralph
Drawing depicts three male, unidentified Japanese prisoners of war huddled in a group. The two figures in the background are sketchily drawn and the central figure has been drawn with more detail. H...ART29157
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Japanese POW
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Maker: Walker, Ralph
Portrait drawing of a male, unidentified Japanese prisoner of war. He is wearing a cap with ear flaps, his mouth is closed and eyes downcast. Study for sculpture.ART29160
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Japanese POW (New Britain)
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Maker: Walker, Ralph
Drawing of the back of a Japanese POW, who is seated in a squatting position. Drawn in New Britain in 1945.ART29156
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Japanese POW officer
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Maker: Walker, Ralph
Sketched portrait of an unidentified male Japanese POW officer wearing a cap with ear flaps in New Britain.ART29161
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Japanese prisoner of war
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Maker: Walker, Ralph
Depicts a head and shoulders profile portrait of a Japanese prisoner of war, wearing a cap. The drawing is a study for a sculpture.ART29159
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Japanese unloading ammunition for dumping
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
Showing Japanese under surveillance of Australians, loading arms and ammunition into barges to be taken to sea and dumped. This panorama shows, from left to right, the mother volcano Matupi and south ...ART25266
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Japanese war criminals' compound, Rabaul
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
Japanese prisoners-of-war awaiting trial guarded by a native soldier.ART25256
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Major General Kenneth Eather
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
A portrait of Major General Kenneth Eather of the 2/1st Australian Infantry Battalion, 25th Australian Brigade, 11th Australian Division. Major General Kenneth William 'Phar Lap' Eather, CB, CBE, DSO...ART26669
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Native head
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Maker: Walker, Ralph Meridian Sculpture Founders
Bronze casting of a native's head. The subject is a man from an area in New Britain where it was customary to bind the head of infants in order to create an elongated effect as they grew.ART92251
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Native head
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Maker: Walker, Ralph
Originally called 'Boy from Arawe'. The sculpture depicts the head of a member of the New Guinea Infantry Battalion, with the artist noting that he was from a district where the heads of children are ...ART26754
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Native woman; verso: not titled [portrait of a man]
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Maker: Walker, Ralph
Pencil sketch of naked Pacific islands woman. Verso: charcoal portrait of unidentified male Pacific island man.ART29153
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