Manga Kahu / Maunga Kahu t-shirt

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Title

Manga Kahu / Maunga Kahu t-shirt

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

  As a reaction against a proposed patch ban in the city of Whanganui in 2009, Black Power member and activist, Denis O’Reilly, seized on a misspelling in the Draft Whanganui District Council Bylaw 2009, where the Maori translation for Black Power (Mangu Kaha) was spelled as Manga Kahu, a term that had no relevant meaning or association to Black Power. As a form of protest, this tee-shirt was created and sold in Whanganui at the time the Bylaw was going through consultation. It is a pastiche ...

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Format

Image

Date created

September 2009

Creator

Denis O'Reilly

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1562154

Related subjects

cotton / colored ink / T-shirts / protests / screen printing / Gangs / Whanganui / Te Huringa III: 1950 - present / Denis O'Reilly

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