My Mothers, My Sisters

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Title: My Mothers, My Sisters

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Extent and medium of the unit of description: Sixteen B&W images in a mixture of portrait and landscape orientations, approx. 16 x 20

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Scope and content: Portraits of contemporary South Asian women by Mumtaz Karimjee, juxtaposed with a single image of a statuette of Rani (Queen) Chennama of Kittur, who in 1824 fought against the British, and who had previously welcomed to Kittur African slaves who had escaped from the Portuguese in Goa.The collection is part of a number of Exhibition Collections for hire - either to make an event in itself, or to add variety and interest to your cultural and business events.

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Language/scripts of material: English

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Recorder's note: This record was indexed June 2002 MR

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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Interest: Asian

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South Asian peoples

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