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Willem Boshoff's Blind Alphabet ABC
Manual for Exhibition Officers

Item date(s): 1995

Willem Hendrik Adriaan Boshoff

Description: C O N F I D E N T I A L. See note below

Pages: 99pp
Size: 296mm
Language: English
Edition: Unique (perhaps two copies)

Place publication: Johannesburg, RSA
Publisher: The artist

Additional notes:
The normal type of the Braille text (see GB/16174) is printed by Braille Services, a Division of SA Blind Workers Organisation.

This confidential manual is a supplement to the BLIND ALPHABET ABC, explaining every one of almost 340 morphological terms and their wooden forms. Authorisation to use the manual most be obtained from the Touch Foundation or the artist.

The following persons have authorised access to it:

* Curators and exhibition officers directly responsible for the presentation and maintenance of the project.

* Those who undertake to train blind guides

* Bona fide researchers.

The blind are exclusively entrusted to disclose the contents of this manual to the sighted. for their benefit the same text is translated into Braille on each of the case-covers and in four accompanying volumes.

Ref: SA/2349