Wall hanging, Mapula Embroidery Project, Winterveldt, Gauteng, South Africa
Item Overview
- Title
- Wall hanging, Mapula Embroidery Project, Winterveldt, Gauteng, South Africa
- Creator
- Maseko, Jane
- Date Created
- 2000
- Date
- 2000
- Place of Origin
- Gauteng, South Africa
- Language
- English
- Collection
-
Africa Collections
South African Embroideries - Program
- International Digital Ephemera Project
Notes
- Summary
- This embroidery draws inspiration from educational materials for the prevention of hiv/aids, which include slogans, pamphlets, posters, and billboards. The embroidery also speaks to everyday concerns among women in a country where as many as one in four live with HIV.
- Description
- Archived Exhibit Web Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20161129050353/http://www.fowler.ucla.edu/exhibitions/bearing-witness-embroidery-history-post-apartheid-south-africa/
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 embroidery; 4 pages
- Dimensions
- 116.84 x 86.63 cm
- Medium
- cotton thread on cotton
Keywords
- Genre
- embroidery
- Subject Geographic
- South Africa
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
AIDS (Disease)--South Africa
Mapula Embroidery Project
Find This Item
- Repository
- William H. Worger and Nancy L. Clark Personal Collection
- ARK
- ark:/21198/z1ns2vrp
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- unknown
- Rights Holder
- worger@history.ucla.edu