[nb-NO]Details[nb-NO]
CollectionSouth & Southeast Asian Collection
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]S1999-0020-006-0
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Missing Out from School
[nb-NO]Creator[nb-NO]Koeh Sia Yong (1938)
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]A boy looks with sadness at two of his peers going to school. He has to miss out from school because he has to tend to the family's vegetable garden and other chores around the house. It is most likely that he has ailing parents who depended on him to keep the family going. Such cases were common among the poor of Singapore society in the not too distant past.
[nb-NO]Production place[nb-NO]Singapore
[nb-NO]Date[nb-NO] 1957 - 1957
[nb-NO]Object category[nb-NO]Woodblock Print
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Ink on paper
[nb-NO]Technique[nb-NO]Printmaking
[nb-NO]Dimensions[nb-NO]
H: 20 cm
L: 15.5 cm
L: 15.5 cm