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Wooden skittles game set made by German WWI prisoners
c 1914
Australian National Maritime Museum
Sydney, Australia
A carved wooded skittle from 2 sets of 9 skittle pins and balls.
The skittle sets are part of a collection of material relating to the German WWI raider SMS EMDEN and crew members who were taken prisoner and interned at Liverpool, NSW, during WWI.
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- Title: Wooden skittles game set made by German WWI prisoners
- Date: c 1914
- Location: Liverpool
- Type: Skittles
- Significance: There is an image held by the National Archives of a display of German internee handicrafts that shows a set of skittles exactly the same as this, and may well be the same set. The material is highly significant for the history of Australia's first and arguably most important naval victory. Material relating to the EMDEN crew's time in the Liverpool prisoner of war camp south west of Sydney is rare and important and shows a side of the conflict that has had little public exposure and a human side of the story that offers important interpretive value.
- See institution's online collections: http://www.anmm.gov.au/collections
- Medium: Timber
- Credit line: ANMM Collection
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