Study for 'The road to Buin, South Bougainville'

Place Oceania: Pacific Islands, Solomon Islands, Bougainville
Accession Number ART28555
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 30.9 x 26 cm (irreg)
Object type Work on paper
Physical description brush and ink with wash on paper
Maker Herman, Sali
Place made New Guinea1
Date made 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright

Description

Study for natives building corduroy road through jungle, often in extreme conditions of heat and torrential rain. Hundreds of natives, some chopping trees and splitting wood, others laying them across the track. See ART22837.