kanga
- Museum number
- Af2002,09.13
- Description
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A rectangular machine-printed white cotton cloth, kanga, with a continuous patterned border of black and yellow diamond-shaped motifs, enclosing a yellow panel and central circular design containing the map of Tanzania upon which a yellow AIDS ribbon is superimposed. Around the top of this circular design is an inscription in Kiswahili: VIJANA TUMETANGAZA VITA DHIDI YA UKIMWI - "We young people declare war against AIDS". Red AIDS ribbons, increasing in size, spread out from this central design towards the four corners. Just above the centre of the lower border is an inscription in Kiswahili: KWA SABABU UWEZO TUNAO NA NIA TUNAYO - "Because we have the capacity and the will to do it".
- Production date
- 2002
- Dimensions
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Length: 110 centimetres
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Width: 163 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
- kangas are printed and purchased in pairs, then cut into single cloths before wear.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2006-2007, Kenya, Nairobi Gallery, Hazina: Traditions, Trade and Transitions in Eastern Africa
2013 14 Feb-21 April, London, BM, Social Fabric: African textiles today--textiles of southern and eastern Africa
2015 13 Feb - 17 May Birchington-on-sea, Powell Cotton Museum, Social Fabric: African Textiles Today
2015 23 May - 6 Sept, Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Social Fabric: African Textiles Today
2015-2016 19 Sept-24 Jan, Ipswich Museum, Social Fabric: African Textiles Today
2016 20 Feb-29 May, Walthamstow, William Morris Gallery, Social Fabric: African Textiles Today
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 2002
- Acquisition notes
- Af2002,09.1 to 55 is a field collection made by Christopher Spring of the BM Dept. of Ethnography "formed in Dar Es Salaam, Zanzibar and Bagamoyo, Tanzania, during a period of fieldwork in November 2002."
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af2002,09.13