Engraved on the lid, Diyatalawa Kamp, 5.9.1901
Made from a dark wood, hinged lid – cleverly made to clip closed without a clasp.
Diyatalawa (sometimes called Happy Valley), was the largest of the five prisoner-of-war camps established in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). To earn more pocket money to supplement their diet or to buy tobacco, or simply to relieve their boredom, the prisoners turned to making curios, carving toys an many different kinds of artifacts. As tools were scarce the pocket knives of the POW\'s became the most commonly used tool. For material they used wood, bone, ivory, stone, horn and textiles. Oosthuizen (Pieter) Boer War Memorabilia (1987).
55 x 34 x 22 mm.
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