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‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor’: The World War One Military Collections from German New Guinea in the South Australian Museum

01/09/2015 By Barry Craig

Australians landing at Kabakaul

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor, Gentleman, Apothecary, Ploughboy, Thief . . . Army, Navy, Medicine, Law, Church, Nobility, Nothing at all. By Barry Craig Britain declared war on Germany on 4 August 1914 and on 12 August, an Australian naval force entered Blanche Bay and disabled the German telephone services at Rabaul and Herbertshöhe. Recruitment for […]

Filed Under: All Journal Articles, Galleries, V20 Issue 4, Volume 20

NGA’s Sepik Exhibition a Stunning Success!

01/09/2015 By James Elmslie

Myth + Magic: The Art of the Sepik River, the new exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia, in Canberra, is all that it was promised to be. A very hearty round of applause must go to the NGA Director, Dr Gerald Vaughan AM, and Curator for Pacific Arts, Crispin Howarth, as well as the […]

Filed Under: Cover Story, V20 Issue 4, Volume 20

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