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Accession Number | ART23520 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | Framed: 49 cm x 54 cm; Unframed: 40.4 cm x 45.3 cm |
Object type | Painting |
Physical description | oil on canvas on plywood |
Maker |
Browning, George Julian |
Place made | New Guinea1: Papua New Guinea, Papua, Owen Stanley Range, Kokoda Trail, Uberi |
Date made | 1944 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Uberi Village, Kokoda Trail
Description
Situated a few hundred yards from Uberi Signal Station. At the time of the Kokoda campaign, the village was used as a resting and messing point for troops on their way to their first camp at River 66, also used as a terminus of pack mule trains and the start of native carrier trains. Crags of Imita Ridge can be seen in the background. Uberi, New Guinea, 1944.