Wooden plaque with lady in green dress

Elongated rectangular wooden plaque with raised carving or wood cut of woman. Carving/cutting is adhered to the plaque with some kind of adhesive. Woman is depicted with dark hair. Facing to the left, she is shown in side profile. Her body is oddly posed. Looking up, she is bent at the waist and shown in mid-stride. She is wearing a green form-fitting dress, which ends at the knee, with a slight drape away from the waist. She is wearing blue-green high-heeled shoes and carries a matching clutch.

Internees were often lonely and bored. Some were single at the time of their internment. As the surviving letters and postcards show, the men often thought of their families and girlfriends back home. Denied newspapers or magazines, which were considered prohibited materials in the camp, an unknown wood carver still managed to create his own pin-up girls as well as a solitary depiction of life as an internee.

The provenance of the work is not known other than it is said to have been made by an internee during World War II by the current owners.