The road to Buin, South Bougainville

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Accession Number ART22837
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 45.7 x 40.6 cm
Object type Painting
Physical description oil on canvas on plywood
Maker Herman, Sali
Place made New Guinea1
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

Depicts a scene of natives building corduroy road through jungle, often in extreme conditions of heat and torrential rain. Hundreds of natives, some chopping trees and splitting wood, others laying them across the track. Wearing coloured lap-laps they made a very impressive and colourful show.

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