Near Wairopi

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Owen Stanley Range, Kokoda Trail
Accession Number ART93257
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 21 x 16.9 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description carbon pencil on paper
Maker Nicholls, John
Place made New Guinea1: Papua New Guinea, Papua, Owen Stanley Range, New Guinea1: Papua New Guinea, Papua, Owen Stanley Range, Kokoda Wairopi Area, Wairopi
Date made 1943-44
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright

Description

A view of the river near the Wairopi area shown with a bridge across it and an native person standing at the riverbed on the left. This work was drawn by soldier artist Lieutenant John Nicholls, NX160003, 2nd Australian Jungle Trunk-Line Maintenance Section, during his service on the Kokoda Trail