Smashed Native Huts & Ships, Tarakan

Place Asia: Borneo, Tarakan
Accession Number ART25412
Collection type Art
Measurement sheet: 33.1 x 53.3 cm; image: 25 x 52.2 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pen and watercolour on paper
Maker Browning, George Julian
Place made Borneo: Tarakan
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

Remains of part of a native village, smashed and deserted, built over the mud between nipa swamps and the north pier. The beached ships are either Borneo "kapals" or Chinese junks.