Cane with grasshopper on leaf, detail of grasshopper

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Accession Number ART91553.013
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 24.8 x 19.8 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pencil on paper
Maker Ueki, Shizu
Place made New Guinea1, Pacific Islands: Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Gazelle Peninsula, Rabaul Area, Rabaul
Date made 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

Depicts a plant and images of a grasshopper found in the banana plantation near the hospital in Rabaul. Shizu Ueki was a Japanese who worked as a civilian nurse with the 8th Naval Hospital in Rabaul, New Guinea from 1942-43. She presented a photo album containing photographs, pencil and watercolour sketches and pressed flower specimens to the War Memorial in 2001.