The Scraper of Coconuts

Place Asia: Singapore, Changi
Accession Number ART25073
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 53.5 x 31 cm (irregular)
Object type Work on paper
Physical description brush and ink heightened with white, over pencil on paper
Maker Griffin, Murray
Place made Singapore: Changi
Date made 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

A general method of treating coconuts at Changi until the Japanese refused their admission into camp. Man shredding flesh from coconut shell. The inset image shows the scraping implement used to scrape the coconuts.