Transporting a new airplane engine from salvage launch to shore by means of native Lakatoi - crashed plane in distance

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua
Accession Number ART22086
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 44 x 59 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pencil on paper
Maker Dargie, William
Place made New Guinea1
Date made December 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Papuans are shown assisting moving a new aeroplane engine on a vessel for transportation. This was intended as a pencil study for a larger painting. This work was created when Dargie spent 16 days in December 1942 with the 15 Repair and Salvage Unit (RSU), Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).

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