Accession No
2006.190
Description
A beige cotton T-shirt with a plastic transfer design placed across the chest reading 'M&M MANA MAORI as BROWN as is gets!'.
Place
Oceania; Polynesia; Aotearoa New Zealand; Auckland; Otara
Period
Source
Henare, Amiria [collector]; Raymond, Rosanna [collector]
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
2006.190
Cultural Affliation
Material
Cloth; Cotton; Plastic
Local Term
Measurements
740mm x 655mm
Events
Context (CMS Context)
Purchased at Otara Markets in Auckland, March 19 2005. See Colchester, Chloe 2003. ‘T-shirts, translation and humour: on the nature of wearer-perceiver relationships in South Auckland’, in Colchester (ed.) Clothing the Pacific, Oxford: Berg, pp. 167-191, for contextual information on such t-shirts. On display in Pasifika Styles, 2006-2008 as part of the installation Eye Land Part II, by Rosanna Raymond. F. Veys, 26/7/2006.
Event Date 1/6/2006
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
T-shirt; beige with “m&m mana maori” logo
Event Date 1/6/2006
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
A beige cotton T-shirt with a plastic transfer design placed across the chest reading 'M&M MANA MAORI as BROWN as is gets!'.
Event Date 14/7/2023
Author: Emily Shorter
FM:265595
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