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‘Biting the Doctor’s Arm’ by Mathias Kauage, 1990. MAA 2010.364
This artwork portrays the artist’s own resistance to having an injection while a child in Papua New Guinea, as well as the encounter between colonial Australian medics and Melanesian children.
Kauage was one of Papua New Guinea’s first internationally famous artists.
