Badge
Traditionally, beads are used to communicate messages and ideas. This pin badge was made to raise awareness of AIDS. In 2016, South Africa had the highest HIV epidemic in the world. The use of a safety pin (isiqhano) relays a customary message that love or compassion is fixed onto that person for good.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 172/2000
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Personal ornament
- Collection Area Region
- S
- Material
- glassironcotton
- Common Name
- badge
- Simple Name
- badge
- Period Classification
- MOD
- Production Country
- South Africa
- Production Date
- 2000
