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This publication is a portrait of a country through its art and its people :The artist Duncan Wylie has produced 2 special edition etchings: portraits of young Zimbabweans who have been part of the story :

Memory, 2020, etching. 45.5 x 37.5cm (Edition of 40)if you buy this large print, we offer you the book. The sale price is £450 or €500. — Memory, 2020, etching.
45.5 x 37.5cm (Edition of 40)
if you buy this large print, we offer you the book. The sale price is £450 or €500.

Linda, 2020, etching. 31 x 24.5cm (Edition of 40)This smaller print is on sale with the book included for £270 or €300. — Linda, 2020, etching.
31 x 24.5cm (Edition of 40)
This smaller print is on sale with the book included for £270 or €300.

Both etchings together for size and scale.

Limited Edition Photographic Prints of the following 22 images are available to purchase.

1. Memory Dzinganisa, with Tonga grass skirt and clay beads.

2. Tonga sleeping hut on stilts, ngazi.

3. Malindidzimu, ‘the place of our ancestors,’ also gravesite of Cecil John Rhodes.

4. Two stone birds of Great Zimbabwe, photographed in the Eastern Enclosure overlooking the main ruins in the valley below.

5.N’ anga, Shona Spirit Medium and Healer Diviner, Murewa.

6. Sacred staff, flywhisk and snake vertebrae adornments of the N’anga, Shona Spirit Medium.

7. Bakatwa, ritual ‘dagger,’ symbol of transcendent authority and carried by the Shona Spirit Mediums.

8. Ndau Spirit Medium and her symbolic staff, mangwato, Chipinge 1982.

9. Ndau dancers celebrating possession by the madanda ancestral spirits, Chipinge 1982.

10. Tonga water pots burnished with ochre, gudza, hand woven bark fibre blanket.

11. Traditional clay hearth and pots, Mudzi.

12. Herbalist with detailed knowledge of over 80 indigenous medicinal herbs, plants, bark and seeds, Murewa.

13. Nalatale, 17th Century capital of the Torwa dynasty.

14. Ukano, Shona symbolic axe carried by the Spirit Mediums and Chiefs.

15. Spirit Medium’s horn medicine container, gona; flywhisk, muswe; ndoro, base of the conch shell - symbol of sacred and secular authority. (Shona)

16. Tonga men’s stools with distinctive chevron patterns.

17. Spirit Medium, Buhera 1982.

18. Pfumo, ritual spears of the Shona Spirit Medium.

19. Rugwako, Shona spoons, two with symbolic breasts honouring the woman’s place in the family.

20. Interior, Shona traditional living space, clay walls burnished with ochre and graphite, raised chikuva with three-tiered pots - shrine to family ancestors. Murewa.

21. Detail of the clay pots which sit on the chikuva, shrine to family ancestors, Shona.

22. Interior of a family living space, Mudzi. Clay shelves incorporate the female form, walls and shelves are burnished with graphite.

These limited edition (10) photographic prints are 40cm x 50cm, and are on sale for £220 each. To purchase yours, please contact us.