Jewellery box

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Jewellery box

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Te Papa Collections Online

Description

Enemy craft This jewellery box is example of the type of handicraft work produced by German and Austro-Hungarian internees on Somes/Matiu Island during the First World War - the island itself is painted inside the lid of the jewellery box. Items of this type were made as gifts to family members or sold to earn pocket money for the internees. Under the War Regulations Act 1914, 4000 Germans and 2000 Austro-Hungarians were registered as 'enemy aliens' - even those who were naturalised. The act ...

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Image

Date created

1916

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1295164

Related subjects

prisoners of war / wood / pāua (abalone shell) / ivory / oil paint / boxes / souvenirs / marquetry / oil painting / World War, 1914-1918 / Wellington / New Zealand

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