Accession No
2006.192
Description
A dark navy blue cotton T-shirt, by Siliga Setoga. A grey plastic transfer design is placed across the chest reading 'PUT COLONISATION IN ITS PLACE' next to a motif of a figure putting rubbish in a waste bin.
Place
Oceania; Polynesia; Aotearoa New Zealand
Period
Source
Henare, Amiria; Raymond, Rosanna
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
2006.192
Cultural Affliation
Material
Cloth; Cotton; Plastic
Local Term
Measurements
870mm 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 and discussion of Siliga Setoga’s work.
Event Date 1/6/2006
Author: maa
Description (CMS Description)
T-shirt; navy blue with “Put colonization in its place” motif.
Event Date 1/6/2006
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
A dark navy blue cotton T-shirt, by Siliga Setoga. A grey plastic transfer design is placed across the chest reading 'PUT COLONISATION IN ITS PLACE' next to a motif of a figure putting rubbish in a waste bin.
Event Date 14/7/2023
Author: Emily Shorter
FM:265597
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