Embroidered panels, Kaross Workers, Tzaneen, South Africa

Item Overview

Title

Embroidered panels, Kaross Workers, Tzaneen, South Africa

Date Created

2000

Date

2000

Place of Origin

Tzaneen, South Africa

Language

English

Collection

Africa Collections
South African Embroideries

Program

International Digital Ephemera Project

Notes

Summary

This embroidery is part of a larger group that was commissioned to be distributed at “Breaking the Silence,” the 12th International aids Conference held in Durban in 2000. Each participant in the project was given a small panel on which she portrayed the effects of aids on her community.

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; 2 pages

Dimensions

24.77 x 39.37 cm

Medium

cotton thread on cotton

Keywords

Genre

embroidery

Subject Geographic

South Africa

Resource type

still image

Subjects

AIDS (Disease)--South Africa
Kaross Workers