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International Women's Day cloth

Creator
Date
  • 2005
Description
  • Blue and yellow cloth with many small images of women engaged in various activities, with the text "International Women's Day March 8" in English and French. Small images of an outline of Cameroon, in yellow, red, and green, are repeated across the cloth. The border includes circular motifs with an image of four arms, with each hand clasping the wrist of another, and various texts describing roles of women.
Coverage
  • Africa, West
Inscription
  • In English and French: International Women's Day March 8th / Journee internationale de la femme 8 mars / Woman, good governance | Woman, education of the girl child / Woman, agriculture livestock and fisheries / Woman, politics and decision making / Femme, epouse et mere [Woman, wife and mother] / Femme et entreprenariat [Woman and entrepreneur] / Femme, artisan de la paix [Woman, artisan of peace] / Femme, legislation et statut jurdique [Woman, law and legislation]
Subject
Location
GPS Latitude
  • 6
GPS Longitude
  • 12.5
Measurements
  • 117 x 159 cm
Rights
License
Identifier
  • international_womens_day_cloth
Language
Provenance
  • Collection of Lisa Gilman (Eugene, Oregon, United States)
Is Part Of
  • African Political Ephemera and Realia
Media
Institution
Conversion
  • Photographed with Canon EOS 5D, 24-105mm f/4L lens in raw format. Adobe Photoshop used to reorient and crop image, set and neutralize shadow and highlight point, and adjust midtone contrast. Archival tiff saved, retaining adjustments layers. Photoshop used to convert color profile to sRGB, set resolution to 240 dpi. JPEG2000 with 10:1 lossy compression created through CONTENTdm.
Submission Date
  • 03/26/2014
Modified
  • 08/01/2022
Collections

APA

African Political Ephemera and Realia Project, University of Oregon. (03 Dec 2023). International Women's Day cloth Retrieved from https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/6682x392q

MLA

African Political Ephemera and Realia Project, University of Oregon. "International Women's Day cloth" Oregon Digital. 03 Dec 2023. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/6682x392q

Chicago

African Political Ephemera and Realia Project, University of Oregon. "International Women's Day cloth" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2023-12-03. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/6682x392q

Wiki

{{cite web | url= https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/6682x392q | title= International Women's Day cloth |author= |accessdate= 2023-12-03 |publisher= }}
Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 unknown http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/unknown
2 Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011436
3 Cameroon https://sws.geonames.org/2233387/
4 In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
5 Creative Commons BY-NC-ND Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
6 English [eng] http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/fra
7 Image http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Image
8 University of Oregon http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126183

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