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Collection
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Aaaaaaa-tention!
Art
Maker: Jose, Ellen
In 1992 Ellen Jose (b.1951) held an exhibition in Melbourne titled "Black Diggers-Ghost Fighters" to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the beginning of the Kokoda campaign in New Guinea, as well as ...ART29762
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Aboriginal (female)
Art
Maker: Bowles, Leslie
This architectural ‘boss’ or carved stone figure depicts the face of an Aboriginal woman. Along with its male counterpart, it is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial....ART93053
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Aboriginal (male)
Art
Maker: Bowles, Leslie
This architectural ‘boss’ or carved stone figure depicts the face of an Aboriginal man. Along with its female counterpart, it is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial....ART93066
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Aboriginal soldier
Art
Maker: Vykopal, Lev
Drawing of a soldier reclining with rifle cocked. This work was created on Vykopal's second residency with NORFORCE, one of three Regional Force Surveillance Units employed to do surveillance and rec...ART95065
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Aboriginal soldier, NORFORCE
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Maker: Vykopal, Lev
Portrait of the head of a soldier wearing a cap. This work was created on Vykopal's second residency with NORFORCE, one of three Regional Force Surveillance Units employed to do surveillance and reco...ART95056
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Advance Australia Fair (Gangurru Camouflage)
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
In 2012 Tony Albert became the Australian War Memorial's first official war artist to deploy with the Army's Regional Force Surveillance Unit, North West Mobile Force (NORFORCE). NORFORCE is a surveil...ART94992
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Aeroplane Dancer
Art
Maker: Rory, Myra
Screenprint of a figure wearing aeroplane headdress with body paint. The work depicts a contemporary portrait of a Yanyuwa Dancer performing the Ka-wayawayama, also known as the Aeroplane Dance. The...ART96134
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Americans and Aborigines
Art
Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Originally titled 'Australian Aborigines rescue shot down U.S. pilot'. Depicts the story associated with the rescue of 2nd Lieutenant Clarence T Johnson, 7th Squadron, 49th Fighter group, USA. On 15 J...ART22732
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Angry Blak
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
In 2012 Tony Albert became the Australian War Memorial's first official war artist to deploy with the Army's Regional Force Surveillance Unit, North West Mobile Force (NORFORCE). NORFORCE is a surveil...ART95007.002
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Anzac C Company
Art
Maker: Tipoti, Alick
In 2016, the Memorial appointed internationally renowned Badu Islander artist Alick Tipoti (b. 1974) as an Official War Artist to document the 51st Battalion in Far North Queensland and in August 2016...AWM2017.1430.2
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Anzac C Company
Art
Maker: Tipoti, Alick
In 2016, the Memorial appointed internationally renowned Badu Islander artist Alick Tipoti (b. 1974) as an Official War Artist to document the 51st Battalion in Far North Queensland and in August 2016...AWM2017.1430.3
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Anzac C Company
Art
Maker: Tipoti, Alick
In 2016, the Memorial appointed internationally renowned Badu Islander artist Alick Tipoti (b. 1974) as an Official War Artist to document the 51st Battalion in Far North Queensland and in August 2016...AWM2017.1430.5
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Anzac C Company
Art
Maker: Tipoti, Alick
In 2016, the Memorial appointed internationally renowned Badu Islander artist Alick Tipoti (b. 1974) as an Official War Artist to document the 51st Battalion in Far North Queensland and in August 2016...AWM2017.1430.4
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Anzac C Company
Art
Maker: Tipoti, Alick
In 2016, the Memorial appointed internationally renowned Badu Islander artist Alick Tipoti (b. 1974) as an Official War Artist to document the 51st Battalion in Far North Queensland and in August 2016...AWM2017.1430.1
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Anzac C Company
Art
Maker: Tipoti, Alick
In 2016, the Memorial appointed internationally renowned Badu Islander artist Alick Tipoti (b. 1974) as an Official War Artist to document the 51st Battalion in Far North Queensland and in August 2016...AWM2017.1430.6
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Arm injury - amputation
Art
Maker: Aubrey-Crowe, George
Australian Military Forces, Services Reconnaissance Department, Native Constabulary; R416 Warrant 1 Yauwiga (or Yauwika) DCM, M Special, AMF, with loyalty medal, left arm amputated below elbow, wearin...ART24397
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A Soldier for a Thousand Years (Gangurru Camouflage)
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
In 2012 Tony Albert became the Australian War Memorial's first official war artist to deploy with the Army's Regional Force Surveillance Unit, North West Mobile Force (NORFORCE). NORFORCE is a surveil...ART94991
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Badu Island Aeroplane dance headdress: American B-25 Mitchell bomber
Art
Maker: Williams, Dick
Unmounted wooden airplane styled to resemble a Mitchell bomber, painted green with faux Australian markings. This detailed aircraft replica is the contemporary feature of the ceremonial headdresses w...ART94620
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Badu Island Aeroplane dance headdress: American B-25 Mitchell bomber
Art
Maker: Williams, Dick
Unmounted wooden airplane styled to resemble a Mitchell bomber, painted green with faux American markings. This detailed aircraft replica is the contemporary feature of the ceremonial headdresses wor...ART94619
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Badu Island Aeroplane dance headdress stand: American B-25 Mitchell bomber
Art
Maker: Williams, Dick
Wooden stand to accompany Mitchell bomber headdress.ART94619.001
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Badu Island Aeroplane dance headdress stand: American B-25 Mitchell bomber
Art
Maker: Williams, Dick
Wooden stand to accompany Mitchell bomber headdress.ART94620.001
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Be Deadly - NORFORCE
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
In 2012 Tony Albert became the Australian War Memorial's first official war artist to be attached to the Army's Regional Surveillance Force North West Mobile Unit (NORFORCE). 'I saw the recruits as ev...ART94987
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Black soldier
Art
Maker: Murray, Lesley
'Black soldier' depicts Lesley Murray's grandfather. The portrait is based on a photograph taken during the Second World War and is a private work of commemoration. It is also intended to serve as a t...ART91484
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Blue Danube [white]
Art
Maker: Scarce, Yhonnie
Contemporary glass artist Yhonnie Scarce was born in Woomera, South Australia in 1973. She belongs to the Kokatha and Nukunu peoples. Scarce is one of the few contemporary Australian artists to explor...AWM2017.929.2
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Blue Danube [white and black]
Art
Maker: Scarce, Yhonnie
Contemporary glass artist Yhonnie Scarce was born in Woomera, South Australia in 1973. She belongs to the Kokatha and Nukunu peoples. Scarce is one of the few contemporary Australian artists to explor...AWM2017.929.1
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Bombing of Darwin
Art
Maker: Wanji Wanji, Susan
Susan Wanji Wanji lives and works on Melville Island which is the largest of the two Tiwi Islands. The experience of the planes and the bombings on the island came as a shock to many Tiwi Islanders an...AWM2016.251.1
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Captain Reg Saunders
Art
Maker: Thalben-Ball, Pamela
Reginald Walter Saunders was born in 1920, in Purnim, Victoria, near the Framlingham Aboriginal Reserve. He came from a long line of soldiers. Both his father and his uncle served in the First World W...ART28159
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[coconuts]
Art
Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
A scene with coconuts and notes about colouring. The verso of this page features a study of several standing figures at an Aboriginal mission station. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), known as 'WEP'...ART96481
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Coloured Diggers
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
This four panelled painting explores the social and political legacies of Indigenous military service during the Second World War, and specifically the lack of recognition felt by many following their...ART96531
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Coloured Diggers [panel 1]
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
Panel one of 'Coloured Diggers' a four panelled painting exploring the social and political legacies of Indigenous military service during the Second World War, and specifically the lack of recognitio...ART96531.001
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Coloured Diggers [panel 2]
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
Panel two of 'Coloured Diggers' a four panelled painting exploring the social and political legacies of Indigenous military service during the Second World War, and specifically the lack of recognitio...ART96531.002
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Coloured Diggers [panel 3]
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
Panel three of 'Coloured Diggers' a four panelled painting exploring the social and political legacies of Indigenous military service during the Second World War, and specifically the lack of recognit...ART96531.003
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Commemoration: Aboriginal People and Torres Strait Islanders
Art
Maker: Unknown Department of Veteran's Affairs
A poster produced by 'Australia Remembers 1945-1995' to commemorate the role of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the Second World War. The background image is a photograph of Aboriginal fight...ARTV09179
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"Coo-ees"
Art
Maker: Kearney, William
A recruitment banner depicting serviceman G. Harvey in a green kilt with the traditional sporran and feathered bonnet, his hands are raised above his head as he is pictured dancing mid-jig. To the lef...ARTV07501
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Darnku Country
Art
Maker: Forrest, Alec
Topographical landscape of Kaningarra country in Western Australia. The composition marks various geographical sites including waterholes and lakes. The red lines are symbolic of the sand hills, and...ART95079
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Death of Major at Nine Mile
Art
Maker: Timms, Freddie
'Death of Major at Nine Mile' was exhibited in Freddie Timms' solo exhibition at Watter’s Gallery in 1999 which explored the history of the Aboriginal rebel and bush ranger Major, who was shot dead by...AWM2019.572.1
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Drawing for headpiece for 'Picnic races- North Australia' in 'Jungle Warfare' 1944
Art
Maker: Rafty, Tony
A group of soldiers cheering on a race between three Aboriginal jockeys on horseback.ARTI00024.D
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Drawing for illustration for 'Skipper' in 'Jungle Warfare' 1944
Art
Maker: Rafty, Tony
A cartoonish train track seen from above with Australian scenes along the line.ARTI00013.B
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Educated white
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
In 2012 Tony Albert became the Australian War Memorial's first official war artist to deploy with the Army's Regional Force Surveillance Unit, North West Mobile Force (NORFORCE). NORFORCE is a surveil...ART95007.001
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Educated White & Angry Blak (Gangurru Camouflage) [Diptych]
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
In 2012 Tony Albert became the Australian War Memorial's first official war artist to deploy with the Army's Regional Force Surveillance Unit, North West Mobile Force (NORFORCE). NORFORCE is a surveil...ART95007
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Face injury apparatus
Art
Maker: Aubrey-Crowe, George
Unidentified man with severe facial injuries, undergoing reconstruction of lower jaw and face, wearing plaster cap and external fixative apparatus (to hold bone fragments in place while they reunite, ...ART24398
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Fathers' Lament
Art
Maker: Clayton, Fay
Upper body portrait of a man in uniform surrounded by four text panels. Father's Lament is both a commemorative portrait of the Indigenous servicemen PR Cecil Robert Clayton and a lament about his po...ART94980
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Fight or Flight #2 The Near East - Bombs and Oil (Hostile Object)
Art
Maker: Cope, Megan
In 2017 the Australian War Memorial commissioned its first female Aboriginal official war artist, Quandamooka woman Megan Cope, to travel to the Middle East to accompany various Defence units particip...AWM2019.58.2
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Flight or Fight #4 A Golden Arc (Known Object)
Art
Maker: Cope, Megan
In 2017 the Australian War Memorial commissioned its first female Aboriginal official war artist, Quandamooka woman Megan Cope, to travel to the Middle East to accompany various Defence units particip...AWM2019.58.4
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Flight or Fight #6 A Line in the Sand
Art
Maker: Cope, Megan
In 2017 the Australian War Memorial commissioned its first female Aboriginal official war artist, Quandamooka woman Megan Cope, to travel to the Middle East to accompany various Defence units particip...AWM2019.58.6
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Flight or Fight #1 Old Rivers, Deep Water (Lake Qadisiya & Lake Assad)
Art
Maker: Cope, Megan
In 2017 the Australian War Memorial commissioned its first female Aboriginal official war artist, Quandamooka woman Megan Cope, to travel to the Middle East to accompany various Defence units particip...AWM2019.58.1
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Flight or Fight #5 Radar
Art
Maker: Cope, Megan
In 2017 the Australian War Memorial commissioned its first female Aboriginal official war artist, Quandamooka woman Megan Cope, to travel to the Middle East to accompany various Defence units particip...AWM2019.58.5
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Flight or Fight #3 Silk Road Extended (Friendly Object)
Art
Maker: Cope, Megan
In 2017 the Australian War Memorial commissioned its first female Aboriginal official war artist, Quandamooka woman Megan Cope, to travel to the Middle East to accompany various Defence units particip...AWM2019.58.3
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Flight or Fight #7 The Near and Middle East with International Borders (Mt Sinjar)
Art
Maker: Cope, Megan
In 2017 the Australian War Memorial commissioned its first female Aboriginal official war artist, Quandamooka woman Megan Cope, to travel to the Middle East to accompany various Defence units particip...AWM2019.58.7
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Forever Young (Gangurru Camouflage)
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
In 2012 Tony Albert became the Australian War Memorial's first official war artist to deploy with the Army's Regional Force Surveillance Unit, North West Mobile Force (NORFORCE). NORFORCE is a surveil...ART95005
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Forgotten Heroes
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
In May 2012 Tony Albert was commissioned as an official war artist and spent two weeks training with the North West Mobile Force (NORFORCE). As a result of his experiences in the Northern Territory Al...ART96354
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For my children's children (Gangurru Camouflage)
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
In 2012 Tony Albert became the Australian War Memorial's first official war artist to deploy with the Army's Regional Force Surveillance Unit, North West Mobile Force (NORFORCE). NORFORCE is a surveil...ART95003
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For our Country
Art
Maker: Boyd, Daniel Edition Office
'For our Country' recognises the military service of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It is a space in which to commemorate their service in all conflicts in which Australia's military h...AWM2018.1108.1
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From dawn to dusk
Art
Maker: Leatham, Cassie
Drawing on longstanding cultural practice and influenced by elements of Anzac Day Ceremonies, this commemorative contemporary artwork by Cassie Leatham (Taungurung/Wurundjeri), speaks to the legacy an...AWM2019.584.1
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Gidthau Steyr Gagaian Kab [the story of the Steyr Dance]
Art
Maker: Gutchen, Kapua
In 2018 the Australian War Memorial commissioned artist and Elder Kapua Gutchen Senior (Meriam Mir) of Erub Erwer Meta (Erub Arts) on Erub (Darnley Island) in the Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait). He was as...AWM2018.1117.6
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Good to Bad
Art
Maker: Green, Jack
'In this painting I show how things have been changing over time in the Gulf country. In the top left is how things used to be with people living on country doing ceremony under the moon, being strong...ART96272
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Green Skin (Gangurru Camouflage)
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
In 2012 Tony Albert became the Australian War Memorial's first official war artist to deploy with the Army's Regional Force Surveillance Unit, North West Mobile Force (NORFORCE). NORFORCE is a surveil...ART94999
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Greens Skins (Guyula, Manakgu, Flowers, Warrior, Wunungmurra, Cooper, Evans, Langdon, Wilton, Yunupingu, Hodgson, Gunamalmal, Ladd, Satour, James, Kris, Wanambi, McPhee, Manmurulu, Martin)
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
NORFORCE personnel refer to each other as "green skins". A practice adopted by the ADF from the Indigenous Australian concept of different skin groups, it acts to unify the soldiers and build relation...ART94985
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Gunnawarra Aborigines, North Queensland
Art
Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A team of five unidentified Aboriginal stockmen milling cypress pine for the construction of cattle yards on Gunnawarra cattle station, with the use of a circular saw and a tractor, near Mount Garne...ART25601
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He was only 19 (Gangurru Camouflage)
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
In 2012 Tony Albert became the Australian War Memorial's first official war artist to deploy with the Army's Regional Force Surveillance Unit, North West Mobile Force (NORFORCE). NORFORCE is a surveil...ART94997
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Injustice – The History of the Gulf Country
Art
Maker: Green, Jack Hoosan, Stewart Nancy McDinny
"For tens of thousands of years our old people lived in, and cared for, the Country. They kept the songs, the ceremonies and the sacred places safe. They worked together under our Law to care for all ...AWM2022.1004.1
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Irvinebank Massacre
Art
Maker: Herd, Jennifer
Award winning artist Jennifer Herd (Mbarbarrum people) is among the founding members of Queensland’s Indigenous arts collective, proppaNOW, along with fellow artists and activists Richard Bell and Ver...AWM2021.414.1
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Japanese bombing Roebuck Bay, Broome
Art
Maker: Dale, Jack
Following the first Japanese attacks on Darwin on 19 February 1942 the Western Australian towns of Broome and Wyndham were attacked on 3 March. Broome was again attacked on 20 March, along with Derby....ART92418
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Japanese Zeros attacking Dutch Seaplanes - Roebuck Bay 1942
Art
Maker: Dale, Jack
This painting 'Japanese Zeroes Attacking Dutch Seaplanes - Roebuck Bay 1942' is a visual account of Jack Dale's experience of the bombing of Broome on 3 March 1942. Dale was a young man at the time a...ART94857
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Jarlujangka Wangki
Art
Maker: Pike, Jimmy Desert Designs
'When mother and my sister went hunting, they were carrying fire, bush fire. And they were looking round for game after a fire. Well, people used to go round, you know tracking for kangaroo or bandico...ART90371
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Joe Mye
Art
Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of Burma Thailand Railway prisoner of war Joe Mye QX13541. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. By the beg...ART28403.076
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Jumuluny Boab Tree at Mistake Creek
Art
Maker: Purdie, Shirley
'Jumuluny Boab Tree at Mistake Creek' is an account of frontier conflict from an Indigenous perspective. Shirley Purdie has depicted the Mistake Creek boab tree that is the site of the 1915 Mistake Cr...AWM2018.706.1
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Kaubu Miebur Kab [War Plane Dance]
Art
Maker: Gutchen, Kapua
In 2018 the Australian War Memorial commissioned artist and Elder Kapua Gutchen Senior (Meriam Mir) of Erub Erwer Meta (Erub Arts) on Erub (Darnley Island) in the Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait). He was as...AWM2018.1117.2
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Kaubu Sarek Kab [Bows and Arrows War Dance]
Art
Maker: Gutchen, Kapua
In 2018 the Australian War Memorial commissioned artist and Elder Kapua Gutchen Senior (Meriam Mir) of Erub Erwer Meta (Erub Arts) on Erub (Darnley Island) in the Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait). He was as...AWM2018.1117.4
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Koskergiz Kaubu Kerkerr ge [TSI Womenfolks of the War Era]
Art
Maker: Gutchen, Kapua
In 2018 the Australian War Memorial commissioned artist and Elder Kapua Gutchen Senior (Meriam Mir) of Erub Erwer Meta (Erub Arts) on Erub (Darnley Island) in the Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait). He was as...AWM2018.1117.5
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Kukiyaw Thonar [green dancer]
Art
Maker: Tipoti, Alick
In 2016, the Memorial appointed internationally renowned Badu Islander artist Alick Tipoti (b. 1974) as an Official War Artist to document the 51st Battalion in Far North Queensland and in August 2016...AWM2017.1430.12
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Kulata Tjuta
Art
Maker: Ken, Kunmanara (Ray)
This painting commemorates Indigenous military service through the story of 'Kulata Tjuta' [many spears]. Through his painting, Kunmanara (Ray) Ken celebrates the importance of the traditional craft o...AWM2016.167.1
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Kulata Tjuta
Art
Maker: Ken, Freddy
This painting commemorates Indigenous military service through the story of 'Kulata Tjuta' [many spears]. It is a tribute to the Anangu men who have fought to protect their country presenting a histor...AWM2016.167.2
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Lagalayg 1 [islander]
Art
Maker: Tipoti, Alick
In 2016, the Memorial appointed internationally renowned Badu Islander artist Alick Tipoti (b. 1974) as an Official War Artist to document the 51st Battalion in Far North Queensland and in August 2016...AWM2017.1430.7
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Lagalayg 2 [warrior]
Art
Maker: Tipoti, Alick
In 2016, the Memorial appointed internationally renowned Badu Islander artist Alick Tipoti (b. 1974) as an Official War Artist to document the 51st Battalion in Far North Queensland and in August 2016...AWM2017.1430.8
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Landing at Xuyen Moc, Operation Paddington
Art
Maker: Fletcher, Bruce
Members of the 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment at Xuyen Moc. Identified in the foreground, left to right: probably 5714248 Private Leonard Francis 'Dinger' Bell, 2784308, 2nd Lieutenant J...ART40578
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Lest we forget...our Aboriginal diggers too
Art
Maker: Leahy, Sean
Published on Anzac Day 1991 this cartoon depicts a rifle stuck into the ground as though it is marking the grave of a dead soldier. The shadow cast by the rifle appears in the shape of a boomerang. ...ART90081
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Long winding trail
Art
Maker: Jose, Ellen
In keeping with Ellen Jose's tendency to combine exploration of the personal with wider external issues, 'Long winding trail' is both an intimate homage to her father and his soldier persona, and a re...ART29763
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Majority Rule (Memorial)
Art
Maker: Cook, Michael
One of a series of seven prints by Cook which considers a simple premise: what would Australia be like if the Indigenous population held the majority? What would the nation look like if 97.5 per cent ...ART96271
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Mamam Eud [Red Death]
Art
Maker: Gutchen, Kapua
In 2018 the Australian War Memorial commissioned artist and Elder Kapua Gutchen Senior (Meriam Mir) of Erub Erwer Meta (Erub Arts) on Erub (Darnley Island) in the Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait). He was as...AWM2018.1117.3
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March with Resistance: May Day
Art
Maker: K Resistance Centre
A raised clenched fist, accompanied with text advertising a 3 May Resistance march in Sydney that includes Vietnam, Laos and Aboriginal rights among its concerns. Resistance was a group formed late i...ARTV03046
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Memoir
Art
Maker: Macnamara, Shirley
Inspired by the commemorative events held to mark the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli campaign, "Memoir" commemorates the service of Indigenous soldiers who fought overseas and were never recognise...ART96854
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Moonlight
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Maker: Green, Jack
'When I was working in Doomadgee there was a policeman who asked us to do some painting, and he wanted a painting of the plane crash. At that time I didn't know where that plane crashed the only time ...ART96273
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Mothers children brothers sisters torn apart (Gangurru Camouflage)
Art
Maker: Albert, Tony
In 2012 Tony Albert became the Australian War Memorial's first official war artist to deploy with the Army's Regional Force Surveillance Unit, North West Mobile Force (NORFORCE). NORFORCE is a surveil...ART95001
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Mounted police and blacks
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Maker: Godfrey Charles Mundy Walton, W.L Bentley, Richard Hullmandel & Walton
The Slaughterhouse Creek massacre of 26 January 1838 occured when New South Wales Military Mounted Police, under the command of Major James Nunn, set out in response to violence on the Liverpool Plain...ART50023
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Naygaiw Thonar [orange dancer]
Art
Maker: Tipoti, Alick
In 2016, the Memorial appointed internationally renowned Badu Islander artist Alick Tipoti (b. 1974) as an Official War Artist to document the 51st Battalion in Far North Queensland and in August 2016...AWM2017.1430.10
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Ngaliya barwon Gami (our great-uncle) from the 'Anzac Centenary Print Portfolio'
Art
Maker: Cope, Megan
Engaging with family stories of war for the first time, Megan Cope began uncovering the histories of seven Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men from Queensland’s Stradbroke Island who served in t...ART96846.003
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Nganampa Manta (our Country)
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Maker: Fielding, Robert Punnagka
This drawing by Robert Fielding was made in response to the Memorial's 2017 commission with the APY Lands Art Centre Collective and tells the story of Aboriginal Australians defending Country. Using m...AWM2018.594.1
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No one sees what I see [NORFORCE recruitment poster]
Art
Maker: Australian Defence Force
One of a series of recruitment posters for NORFORCE in 2013 under the campaign slogan 'Modern Warrior, Traditional Values'.ARTV10333
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No one sees what I see [NORFORCE recruitment poster]
Art
Maker: Australian Defence Force
One of a series of recruitment posters for NORFORCE in 2013 under the campaign slogan 'Modern Warrior, Traditional Values'.ARTV10332
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No one sees what I see [NORFORCE recruitment poster]
Art
Maker: Australian Defence Force
One of a series of recruitment posters for NORFORCE in 2013 under the campaign slogan 'Modern Warrior, Traditional Values'.ARTV10330
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No one sees what I see [NORFORCE recruitment poster sea patrol]
Art
Maker: Australian Defence Force
One of a series of recruitment posters for NORFORCE in 2013 under the campaign slogan 'Modern Warrior, Traditional Values'.ARTV10331
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Norforce Campsite, Murganella
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Maker: Robertson, Christian Clare
Norforce Campsite, Murganella depicts the simple conditions of a camp set occupied by NORFORCE soldiers in the Northern Territory.ART91479
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not titled [four decorated boomerangs]
Art
Maker: Namatjira, Albert
This graduated grouping of boomerangs were created by Albert Namatjira (1902–1959) of the Western Aranda peoples, who remains one of the most well-known and revered Australian artists. Namatjira is be...ART96909
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not titled [Poppies]
Art
Maker: Fielding, Robert Punnagka
This work was acquired for the Memorial's Art collection alongside the launch of 'Kulatangku angakanyini manta munu Tjukurpa [Country and Culture will be protected by spears]', a painting by 19 senior...AWM2017.1350.1
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not titled [Spear]
Art
Maker: Young, Frank
This spear was presented to Director Brendon Nelson and Ryan Johnston on the 16th of November, 2017 at the launch for the APY Lands Art Collective painting 'Kulatangku angakanyini manta munu Tjukurpa ...AWM2017.1351.2
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not titled [Spear]
Art
Maker: Young, Frank
This spear was presented to Director Dr Brendon Nelson and Ryan Johnston, Head of Art, on the 16th of November, 2017 at the launch for the APY Lands Art Collective painting 'Kulatangku angakanyini man...AWM2017.1351.1
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Nouvelle-Hollande: Vases, Armes, Pêche
Art
Maker: Lesueur, Charles Alexandre Petit, Nicolas-Martin
The implements shown in this print are those observed or collected from Port Jackson during Nicolas Baudin's voyage in 1802. The objects are representative of those from the Gaimariagal and Gadigal pe...AWM2020.231.2
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Olden Days
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Maker: Daniels, Jill
'Olden Days' is a frontier conflict story told to Daniels by her family. It refers to events prior to Daniels' birth, most likely during the late nineteenth- early twentieth-centuries, when Northern T...AWM2018.890.1
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Paddy Cooley (Quilty) Story / Emu Dreaming
Art
Maker: Bedford, Paddy
After a lifetime in the saddle working as a stockman on the cattle station in the eastern Kimberley whose name he bears, Paddy Bedford [Jawalyi] (Gija, 1922-2007) commenced painting in the public sphe...AWM2019.413.1