Drawing Item Number: 2811/108 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Children's drawing on legal size off-white paper. An inscription in the upper left reads "miercoles 19 de octubre de 1983". The front page contains drawings in pencil and red ink. The top half of the page may represent a village or camp scene as it contains six human figures, two houses, a bird, a helicopter, a potted plant, and flowering plant, a tree, and a row of what appear to be crops. The word "campesinos" has been written on the left side and the word "niƱos" has been written on the right. The bottom half of the page depicts a helicopter containing three human figures. One of these figures has a gun and is shooting it at a figure lying on the ground. To the left of this is a horizontal band, representing a river. There are two human heads and a human body floating in the river, as well as eighteen small circles. Below the river, in the lower left corner, are the words "Movena Menbreno". The back page contains an inscription in red ink that reads "aserca la sitiacion de nosotros en el salvador y en nuestra vida que emos tenido entra y ectoria de sufrimiento".