Tualinbari (Rabaul native)

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Accession Number ART21225
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 38.3 x 30 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description brown conte crayon heightened with white on paper
Maker Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Place made New Guinea1: Mubo Salamaua Area, Salamaua
Date made 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Depicts a portrait of Tualinbari, native from Rabual, the artist's batman at Salamaua. A pro-Japanese boy at the time of the Salamaua campaign but now working for the Australians, New Guinea.