PS-102 Bantu
Symbols £8
(€12)
Included
here are eighty-one colourful examples of Bantu symbol
writing. The Bantu symbol-language of South Africa
was developed for communication exclusively between
medicine men; it is not taught to the common people.
Yet an estimated 30 percent of the Bantu people can
write in this language. Apart from medicine men and
the elders and wise ones, it is mostly women who employ
it: after a newly married couple have built their
home, the husband’s mother, or any of his friends,
may decorate the house’s walls with blessing
symbols. In
the symbol-language, each symbol represents not a
single character or letter, but a whole word or, more
often, a complete idea (much like Chinese and Japanese
symbols). The characters are arranged in sequence
to communicate: Man + sees + lion. Lion + eats + ox.
61cm x 91cm (24" x 36") |
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PS-103 Black History £8
(€12)
Black
History poster features twenty photographs and
text on the following subjects: Black Seminole, The
Black Mongols of China, Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Colossal Olmec Head, The Buddha, Alexandre Dumas,
Taharka, St. Maurice, Bonda Woman, Madame C. J. Walker,
Frederick Douglass, Alexander Pushkin,
Haile Selassie, Shang Dynasty, Rosa Parks, Matthew
Henson, Malcolm X, Jayavarman VII, Imhotep, and
Lewis Latimer. 61cm
x 91cm (24" x 36")
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