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Arawa

documentary heritage
  • Description

    Greeting card produced during the First World War. Recto: Colour illustration of a prisoner, tied up in a canoe-like vessel, named "Arawa", after the troopship of the same name. A man in a lemon squeezer hat is steering the canoe. Lower corner signed "Roberts. France 18.". Inside: Extract from an article in "The Times" , July 29, 1918.

  • Other Id

    EPH-W1-2-13 (Reference Number)

    106767 (accession number)

    16008 (Presto content ID)

    88224 (DBTextworks system ID)

  • Department

    Ephemera

Images and documents

Images

    Catalogue

    • Object Type

      ephemera

    • Name/Title
      Arawa
    • Date
      1918
    • Physical Description

      1 folded card : col. ill. ; 13 x 18 cm.

    • Level of Current Record
      Single Item
    • Subject Category

      World War, 1914-1918--Caricatures and cartoons

      Greeting cards--New Zealand

      Arawa (Ship)/Library of Congress subject headings

    • Classification
      Card, Greeting/Correspondence/Other Documents/Documentary Artifacts/08 Communication Artifacts/Chenhall Nomenclature
    • Content
      Extract: "Some prisoners recently taken by New Zealand troops were singularly depressed, and shrank from all manifestations of kindliness on the part of their captors, especially refusing cigarettes. Subsequestly it appeared that they had been told that the New Zealanders were cannibals, whose invariable custom was to make prisoners smoke cigarettes and then eat them."
    • Public Access Text

      See MS-1136. Coldicutt, William. Certificate of Discharge, 1919.

      Keywords: Arawa, Troopship

    • Copyright
      No known copyright restrictions
    • Last Update
      20 Nov 2024
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