'Neger' Cigar Tin

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'Neger' Cigar Tin

Hinged metal tin used to contain around 100 cigars with wooden-style patterning and a caricature of a young Black man smoking a cigar on the top overlapped by the word "Neger", container is decorated by Art Deco bordering and font which writes "Handwerk" on the front, "100" on either side, and "Flor Fina" ('Fine Flower" - In Spanish) on the back.

W.G. Boele Sr.

Metal Tin

Facing Blackness is a multimedia exhibition that takes the public through the obscure history of portraying Black people from the colonial period to contemporary society. Using unique archive material and visual art, we show how anti-black racism became part of the Dutch 'cultural archive' and our everyday ideas, customs and utensils. On the other hand, the exhibition shows how there has always been 'everyday resistance' to various forms of racism and how Black people themselves have given and continue to give meaning to their culture and identity.

The Black Archives

Cigar Box

Black Man, Black Caricature

Cigar

c.1900

11x22x9.5

Netherlands

Kampen

Cigars, Black Man, Smoking, Tin, Art Deco, Borders, Advertising

Neger

Neger

Richard Weaver

http://www.tincollectors.nl/EN/details/76/71/1/268/_%20W.G.%20Boele%20Sr.html