Native stretcher bearers

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Owen Stanley Range
Accession Number ART27569
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 66.0 x 106.4 x 43.2 cm
Object type Sculpture
Physical description bronze, brown patina
Maker Ewers, Ray
F J & I Lemon, Frankston, Victoria
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Frankston
Date made 1965
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Six Papuans manipulating an improvised stretcher, with a serviceman patient on it, over rough ground during the Papuan and New Guinea campaigns.