Accession No
2006.191
Description
A red cotton T-shirt with a plastic transfer design placed across the chest. The design depicts a modified 'adidas' logo, with three diagonal red bars with white pattern running through, with white text below reading 'maorias', all set inside a blue rectangle outlined in white.
Place
Oceania; Polynesia; Aotearoa New Zealand; Auckland; Otara
Period
Source
Henare, Amiria [collector]; Raymond, Rosanna [collector]
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
2006.191
Cultural Affliation
Material
Cloth; Cotton; Plastic
Local Term
Measurements
770mm x 710mm
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.
Event Date 1/6/2006
Author: maa
Description (CMS Description)
T-shirt; deep red with “Maorias” motif (modified “adidas” logo).
Event Date 1/6/2006
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
A red cotton T-shirt with a plastic transfer design placed across the chest. The design depicts a modified 'adidas' logo, with three diagonal red bars with white pattern running through, with white text below reading 'maorias', all set inside a blue rectangle outlined in white.
Event Date 14/7/2023
Author: Emily Shorter
FM:265596
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