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Badu Island Aeroplane dance headdress: American B-25 Mitchell bomber
Art
Maker: Williams, Dick
Unmounted wooden airplane styled to resemble a Mitchell bomber, painted green with faux Australian markings. This detailed aircraft replica is the contemporary feature of the ceremonial headdresses w...ART94620
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Badu Island Aeroplane dance headdress: American B-25 Mitchell bomber
Art
Maker: Williams, Dick
Unmounted wooden airplane styled to resemble a Mitchell bomber, painted green with faux American markings. This detailed aircraft replica is the contemporary feature of the ceremonial headdresses wor...ART94619
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Badu Island Aeroplane dance headdress stand: American B-25 Mitchell bomber
Art
Maker: Williams, Dick
Wooden stand to accompany Mitchell bomber headdress.ART94619.001
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Badu Island Aeroplane dance headdress stand: American B-25 Mitchell bomber
Art
Maker: Williams, Dick
Wooden stand to accompany Mitchell bomber headdress.ART94620.001
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Black soldier
Art
Maker: Murray, Lesley
'Black soldier' depicts Lesley Murray's grandfather. The portrait is based on a photograph taken during the Second World War and is a private work of commemoration. It is also intended to serve as a t...ART91484
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Coloured Diggers
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Maker: Albert, Tony
This four panelled painting explores the social and political legacies of Indigenous military service during the Second World War, and specifically the lack of recognition felt by many following their...ART96531
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Coloured Diggers [panel 3]
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Maker: Albert, Tony
Panel three of 'Coloured Diggers' a four panelled painting exploring the social and political legacies of Indigenous military service during the Second World War, and specifically the lack of recognit...ART96531.003
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Fathers' Lament
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Maker: Clayton, Fay
Upper body portrait of a man in uniform surrounded by four text panels. Father's Lament is both a commemorative portrait of the Indigenous servicemen PR Cecil Robert Clayton and a lament about his po...ART94980
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Forgotten Heroes
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Maker: Albert, Tony
In May 2012 Tony Albert was commissioned as an official war artist and spent two weeks training with the North West Mobile Force (NORFORCE). As a result of his experiences in the Northern Territory Al...ART96354
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Kaubu Miebur Kab [War Plane Dance]
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Maker: Gutchen, Kapua
In 2018 the Australian War Memorial commissioned artist and Elder Kapua Gutchen Senior (Meriam Mir) of Erub Erwer Meta (Erub Arts) on Erub (Darnley Island) in the Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait). He was as...AWM2018.1117.2
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Private, Gowrie House
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Maker: Bowen, Stella
Portrait of an Australian infantry soldier, identified by the artist in her correspondence with the Australian War Memorial as 'Pte (Name lost) Gowrie House 11/6'. Despite being one of the Memorial's ...ART26277
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Sagim Beberbeber [Hardships]
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In 2018 the Australian War Memorial commissioned artist and Elder Kapua Gutchen Senior (Meriam Mir) of Erub Erwer Meta (Erub Arts) on Erub (Darnley Island) in the Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait). He was as...AWM2018.1117.1
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Sentinel
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Maker: West, Vicki
'The "Sentinel" pays homage to past ancestors who fought to protect Lutruwita (Tasmania) and the present-day cultural warriors who continue to fight to protect our home' Vicki West, 2016 West's armou...AWM2016.542.1
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Sunrise
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Maker: Nicholls, Glenda
"My craft carries the storyline of my ancestors where I weave fish nets and use bird feathers in a craft that was handed down from my maternal great-grandmother Christina. She was skilled in the old w...AWM2016.550.2
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Time marches on
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Maker: Bancroft, Bronwyn
The painting is a mixed media portrait of the artist's father Owen Bancroft marching with his fellow servicemen in 1985. The work is both an intimate homage to family as well as a broader commentary o...ART94626
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Torres Strait Light Infantry Battalion
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Maker: Ware, Rosie
Rosie Ware (born 1959) is a Torres Strait Islander (TSI) artist based on Waiben (Thursday) Island. An award winning textile artist she works primarily in lino-block, hand printed fabrics that combine ...ART96820