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Nelson Mandela with birthday gift presented by Verne Harris
photographer Matthew Willman on behalf of the Nelson Mandela Foundation2004-08-13
The Nelson Mandela Foundation
Johannesburg, South Africa
Nelson Mandela laughed as he viewed the 86th birthday gift from fellow former prisoner Mac Maharaj, a replica of the birthday gift from forty years previous. After a prison cell visit from the press in 1977, the media mistakenly identified the framed National Geographic image from the Andaman Islands as a portrait of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
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- Title: Nelson Mandela with birthday gift presented by Verne Harris
- Creator: photographer Matthew Willman on behalf of the Nelson Mandela Foundation
- Date Created: 2004-08-13
- Rights: Copyright held by the Nelson Mandela Foundation
- Reference code: 1.2.3.1.2004_Matthew Willman 086
- Originals location: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
- Extent and Medium: 1 x colour digital photograph
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