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Subject: [SoAfricaHistory] Iziko Museums Exhibition- 'Echoes of the slave lodge'
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 18:18:11 +0200
>From : Mogamat KAMEDIEN
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THEME : "Echoes from the Lodge"
Iziko Museums of Cape Town is hosting an exhibition highlighting the "daily
domestic life at the Cape and in Batavia during the Dutch East India Company
[VOC] colonial period".
TIME :
The exhibition opened on Friday, 12 December 2003 and will run until the end
of April 2004.
VENUE :
The newly, renovated SLAVE LODGE, which only surviving VOC company slave
quarters in the world, at the threshold of the Parliamentary complex at the
top of ADDERLEY STREET and WALE STREET, Cape Town.
website : www.museums.org.za/iziko/
PORTFOLIO :
Comprises of 75 thematic pieces of colonial furniture from the 17th & 18th
centuries and other personal possessions which serves as visual
representations of how the inhabitants of the Cape conducted their daily
domestic lives.
This Dutch period furniture will, also, depict the lives of slaves who made
them, relate their craftmenship in both Batavia and at the Cape [of Good
Hope], and how closely the role of slaves and their status were intertwinned
with the day-to-day existence of the other Cape inhabitants during the Dutch
VOC period.
RECOMMENDED LITERATURE :
Book title : "Domestic Interiors at the Cape and in Batavia, 1602 - 1795"
The Authors :Monique van de Geijn-Verhoeven, Antonia Malan, Karel Schoeman,
Jan Veenendaal, Deon Viljoen, and Nigel Worden
Book Contents:
Batavian furniture:
The VOC and Batavia : Jan Veenendaal
Furniture in Batavia : Jan Veenendaal
40 top pieces of Batavian furniture (catalogue) : Monique van de
Geijn-Verhoeven
Cape furniture:
Life at the Cape : Karel Schoeman
Ethnic diversity at the VOC Cape : Nigel Worden
Furniture at the Cape in the eighteenth century - an archaeological approach
: Antonia Malan
Furniture at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652 - 1795 : Deon Viljoen
Forty [40] top pieces of Cape furniture (catalogue) : Deon Viljoen
ISBN 1 874950 68 7[240 pages, hardcover, 315 x 240mm (portrait), 162
illustrations]
Available: April/May 2003
Publisher details :
FERNWOOD PRESS (PTY) LTD
Directors: Pieter & Pam Struik
Website address: www.fernwoodpress.co.za
E-mail:
References :
1] Cape Argus newspaper article : " LODGE ECHOES SLAVES ANGUISH- a new
exhibition in the Slave Lodge gives a peek into life under Dutch colonial
rule" by staff reporter, Zenzile khoisan, Section - LIFE, p15, dated
December, 15,2003
2] Cape Times newspaper article : " UNCOVERING DIVERSE CULTURAL STRANDS- new
exhibition focuses on daily life in Cape and Batavia, Section - ESCAPETIMES,
p8 dated Friday, 15 December 2003
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