17947 (xl) Artwork

The Parliament Collection:
Derogative anti-Chinese map of South Africa and Mozambique. Hydra head with Chinese features and a pigtail centred above Johannesburg and its large tentacles reaching all over the country. Seven tentacles are labelled: vegetable trade, laundry work, general store, opium den, fantan, rum shop. One tentacle is wrapped around a European woman with the label (with racist tone) "White girl welly ni" (very nice). (Part of a portfolio, see 17947) Untitled ["Ah Joburg"]; Cartoons of the Anglo-Boer war period (late 19th to early 20th centuries). Political cartoons.