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Ambassabor, teacher, peacekeeper, soldier.
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Maker: Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Unknown
Australian Army peacekeeping recruitment poster commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations and marking 50 years of Australian involvement in United Nations peacekeeping operations. T...ARTV10160
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A plea for peacekeepers
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts three unidentified Palestinian elders engaged in conversation and negotiations with Major Rik Moddeman, an Australian serving with UNTSO (United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation), a peac...ART90364
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Bandits
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts three Somali men seated on the ground, with their hands tied behind their backs. One of the men is blindfolded, while one other has his face covered completely. They are surrounded by three st...ART90110
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Blinding lesson
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a young Somali boy, Mohamad, attacking another young boy with a tin opener from a ration pack, by thrusting the tin opener into one of his eyes. Gittoes noted of this work; '...Mohamad appear...ART90108
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Female body search - the problem of gender
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts Corporal Julie Baranowski, Australian Military Police, involved in a body search for hidden weapons on a Somali woman. Gittoes' notes; '...Julie was requested to search the women. The Marines ...ART90105
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Henna
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts Lance Corporal Wendy Andrews receiving a henna tatoo at the Polisario Refugee Camp in Algeria. The Polisario's guide, Habouha Soudany invited the artist and the peacekeepers to spend a night i...ART90367
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Khats
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts the artist on the right, wearing a pair of Night Vision goggles while on patrol with Australian peacekeepers, Delta Company, in Baidoa, Somalia. On the left is an elderly Somalian man chewing ...ART90101
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Lieutenant General John Sanderson
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Portrait of Lieutenant General John Sanderson AC wearing a blue beret, in front of rows of skulls behind a wooden lattice. Sanderson (born 1940) was appointed military commander of the United Nations ...ART90953
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Major General Peter Cosgrove
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Maker: Alberts, Tom
As a Major General, Lieutenant General Peter Cosgrove was commander of the Australian-led International Force in East Timor (Interfet). This portrait of Australia's most important leader of recent tim...ART91505
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Mirow and Awliya
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a Somalian woman, Mirow, carrying her six-year-old granddaughter, Awliya to a remote feeding station run by the CRS [Catholic Relief] at Makuboy, Somalia. Behind the woman and child are extens...ART90102
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Mother and son Bethlehem Hospital
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
In text accompanying the drawing, Gittoes notes; 'the whole ward [in the hospital] felt neglected by the world. No one had visited them to get their account of events...the boy was about 15; his mothe...ART90369
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Night vision studies xvi
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Maker: Cattapan, Jon
This small green deeply saturated painting conveys the uncertainty surrounding the Australians' night patrols, the realisation that the unknown is always there, just beyond the edge of their vision. T...ART94061
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Sergeant Jodie Clark
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Australian peacekeeper Sergeant Jodie Clark supervises preparations for the unloading of a train at Battambang in Cambodia. The train's cargo of pickets and barbed wire helped secure an airport during...ART90114
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The farewell
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts the turbaned head of an elderly Saharawi goat shepherd farewelling his son, also wearing a turban, who is a new recruit to the Polisario in Western Sahara. The Polisario are the army of Wester...ART90365
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The Observers observed
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
United Nations (UN) peacekeepers at the UN Observation post, OP 73, Golan Heights, looking towards Mt. Herman. The area depicted, looking towards the Israeli Early Warning Listening Stations, was one ...ART90368
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UN bunker OP54, Golan Heights
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a United Nations stone bunker, OP 54, in the Golan Heights, Israel. The bunker is set into the rocky landscape and terrain of this region . Gittoes travelled to Western Sahara, Egypt, Israel, ...ART90366
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Unloading, Mogadishu
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts three Australian peacekeepers, in the foreground, unloading boxes and supplies from a Navy (?) ship at Mogadishu. In the background is the ship and a number of Somali people assisting in the ...ART90109
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Woman at the well
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a young Somalian woman sitting on the edge of a mountain ridge, while behind her are a large number of men, women and children crowded around an almost dry well. Two Australian peacekeepers in...ART90103