'Come 'Ngetit', Finschhafen

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Huon Peninsula, Finschhafen, Finschhafen area
Accession Number ART21726
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 50.5 x 37.5 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description crayons with coloured washes and pen and blue ink heightened with white on paper
Maker Hodgkinson, Roy
Place made New Guinea1
Date made 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

The stoves are standard mobile kitchen equipment. The cook is seen shouting "Come and get if or I'll chuck it out!" In the sawn-off 40 gallon drumon the left may be seen the empty tins of the ration from which the meal has been prepared. The unit is a 9th Australian Division one in the Finschhafen area, New Guinea.c