Ashtray with carved snakes and a monkey figure

Title: Ashtray with carved snakes and a monkey figure
Short summary / description: Historical information: Item made by an Italian POW held in Camp 13
Physical description: Sandstone hand-carved monkey and ashtray. Monkey has decorative markings. Ashtray has a diamond shaped recess carved into the top and decorated with two brown and black painted snakes and green and white leaves
Inscriptions & markings Ashtray: Prisoner of War on top Monkey: Ricordo on side and Ricordo POW on bottom (<a href="https://victoriancollections.net.au/items/65ee7caeb2201fddf692d8fc">https://victoriancollections.net.au/items/65ee7caeb2201fddf692d8fc</a>)
Subject: Australia--History--20th century; Art objects, Italian; Foreign workers, Italian; History; Internment camps--Australia
Creative Work type: Craft and design
Material: stone; paint
Place held: Tatura Irrigation and Wartime Camps Museum
Date of creation: 1940
URL(s): https://victoriancollections.net.au/items/65ee7caeb2201fddf692d8fc
Copyright information / URL: Ashtray with carved snakes and a monkey figure (c. 1940-46, stone, paint). Courtesy of Tatura Irrigation and Wartime Camps Museum. Photo courtesy Flavia Marcello and Daria Gradusova

Media: Ashtray with snakes_top_Tatura_Photo courtesy Flavia Marcello and Daria Gradusova.JPG; Ashtray monkey_side_Tatura_Photo courtesy Flavia Marcello and Daria Gradusova.JPG