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| Title | Ashtray with carved snakes and a monkey figure |
| Short Summary / Description | Historical information: Item made by an Italian PoW held in Camp 13.
Physical description: Sandstone hand-carved monkey and ashtray. Monkey has decorative markings. Ashtray has a diamond shaped recess carved into the top and decorated with two brown and black painted snakes and green and white leaves.
Inscriptions:
“Prisoner of War” and “Ricordo on side and Ricordo POW” on the bottom of the sculpture
Source: https://victoriancollections.net.au/items/65ee7caeb2201fddf692d8fc |
| Subject | Australia–History–20th century |
| Art objects, Italian |
| Foreign workers, Italian |
| History |
| Internment camps–Australia |
| Creative Work Type | Craft and design |
| Material | stone |
| paint |
| Place Held | Tatura Irrigation and Wartime Camps Museum |
| I D Number | C3720 |
| Date Of Creation | 1940 |
| U R L(s) | https://victoriancollections.net.au/items/65ee7caeb2201fddf692d8fc |
| Copyright Information / U R L | Ashtray with carved snakes and a monkey figure (c. 1940-46, stone, paint). Courtesy of Tatura Irrigation and Wartime Camps Museum. Photo courtesy Flavia Marcello and Daria Gradusova |
