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


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