Pinback button for the Frelimo: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A pinback button supporting Frelimo, the Mozambique Liberation Movement. At the center of the button against a yellow background is an illustration in black of two figures, a man and a woman, walking along a river. The man carries a gun and a hoe; the woman has a baby and gun on her back and carries a basket of food on her head and a book in her hand. Along the edge of the button is a ring of green with black text reading in Portuguese [Frelimo Vencera / Estudar - Produzir - Combater] (Study - Produce - Fight). The exterior edge of the button has information about the Liberation Support Movement. The back of the button has a metal pin with a clasp.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1972
• Created by: Liberation Support Movement, American, 1969 - 1981
• Subject of: Mozambique Liberation Front, Mozambican, founded 1962
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink on paper with metal and plastic
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 1 1/2 × 1 1/2 × 3/16 in. (3.8 × 3.8 × 0.5 cm)
• Place depicted: Mozambique, Africa
• Place made: British Columbia, Canada, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Africa
• Topic: Decolonization
• Topic: International affairs
• Topic: Multilingual communication
• Object number: 2013.68.100
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of T. Rasul Murray
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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