Print XIV, the major: Major Meredith saluting, with the red line Outranked by a bird, on a white T-shirt

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Print XIV, the major · The Café Editions

Outranked by a bird. · Print XIV, the major

$70 · Open edition

The story

Western Australia, November 1932. Wheat farmers asked the army for help against thousands of emus eating their crops. The army sent Major G. P. W. Meredith, a small unit and two machine guns.

The emus split into small groups and ran. A month and nearly ten thousand rounds later, the soldiers went home. Meredith said that with a division of birds like these he could face any army in the world.

The emus stayed.

Source: the Emu War, 2 November to 10 December 1932. The photograph is from the Femage archive, and the officer's cap is ours.

The print

Print XIV, the second from the drawer: Major G. P. W. Meredith, the officer the army sent against the emus, in one black and white photograph, with one red line: "Outranked by a bird."

Open edition. Every shirt comes with its story card, printed like an old newspaper.

The edition

The Prints are an open edition: not signed, not numbered, and not limited. Each one comes with its story card, printed like an old newspaper.

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