Additional notes: Colophon: "This private edition with 14 original monochrome etchings and seven etched renderings of the 'Mafikeng Heads' by Malcolm Payne, each signed and numbered by the artist. All the etchings were printed from the original copper plates, on Zerkall Buetten paper 145gsm, by Paulus Paas. Each copy is hand bound in quarter leather by Peter Carstens. Screenprinted cover design by Malcolm Payne."
A visual, archaeological and historical reading of the Lydenburg Heads.
See also: the pamphlet of the same name (SA/014) with an essay by Ivor Powell.
Exhibition notes: Item 197 in the exhibition 'Artists Books in the Ginsberg Collection' at the Johannesburg Art
Gallery 25/8/96-27/10/96.
Item 0236 - C6c ZA on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection.
UJ Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg
25 March to 5 May 2017
Samplings: South African Artists' Books
Basement Gallery, WAM
26 March to 6 July 2019
Ref: GB/10064
Articles
Fragments: An archaeological biography Patricia Davison (essay by) p17
Tales and heads, bodies and landscapes Martin Hall (essay by) p33