Keepsakes of Conflict: Trench Art and Other Canadian War-related Craft
A small polished brass plane made from a bullet. It has one propeller in the front and has targets painted on each wing and on the body.

Keepsakes of Conflict: Trench Art and Other Canadian War-related Craft

Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery 2020
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Art, History

During the wars they have been involved in, Canadian soldiers sometimes occupied themselves by fashioning incredible items from available materials, such as shell casings. Some were useful, others decorative. Discover some of these extraordinary objects of applied art and craft, and the circumstances that inspired their creation.


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