HISTORY: TEXTILES

Title: Quién carga con la dueda externa? Who Carries the External Debt?
Object Name: Wall Hanging
Date Made: 2008
2008
Place Made: Peru
Peru
Description: Created at the Mujeres Creativas workshop in Peru, this arpillera is a replica of one made in 1986 also at a Mujeres Creativas workshop, which was entitled 'Who carries the debt?'
Materials: cotton
burlap
Date Collected: 2022
2022
Catalogue Number: BELUM.W2023.3.4
Copyright: © Conflict Textiles, Photograph by Martin Melaugh.

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