Heart Stick

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Title

Heart Stick

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This ‘Heart Stick’ was made for protesters to carry at demonstrations against the Springbok rugby tour of New Zealand in 1981. The split heart motif was the logo for Halt All Racist Tours (HART) and had been a well-known symbol of the anti-tour movement since the early 1970s. Artists Against Apartheid Artist Barry Lett made about 40 of these sticks for fellow protesters to carry. Many were seen bobbing above protesters' heads before and during the last rugby test in Auckland on 12 September ...

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Format

Image

Date created

1981

Creator

Barry Lett / Artists Against Apartheid

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/845045

Related subjects

Hearts (Symbols) / Racism / Rugby / wood / paint / placards / Apartheid / New Zealand

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