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Sometimes Yearly Banana Rag serial, Sound Poems flyer and for our Banana Week card

Artist/Creator
Anna Banana (Creator)
Date
1976
ID #
2.1.260.16
Level of Description
Item

Object Description

Item is a series of chapbooks, a card, and a flyer by BanANNA Productions, USA (Anna Banana), San Francisco, sent to Coutts-Smith at St. Mary’s Rd., Winnipeg, MB, postmarked 27 October 1976 at San Francisco. Flyer advertises the Bay Area Daddaists performance Sound Poems at La Mamelle in San Francisco, 29 October 1976. The card is hand-stamped at written to Coutts-Smith from Anna Banana regarding the enclosing of the latest edition of Banana Rag. Banana Rag, No. 12, Autumn 1976, consists of a cover graphic of a young girl (Dana Long) holding a half-peeled banana, with drawings and text by Dana Long, daughter of Anna Banana.

Physical Description

Physical Extent
1 flyer : b&w reproduced graphic and dark violet ink stamp on white paper, text and chiefly ill. ; 20 x 26 cm. – 1 card : black and crimson ink stamps and black ink handwriting on white paper ; 15.5 x 10 cm. – 1 v. (26 p.) of textual records and graphic material : black ink on yellow paper, text and ill. ; 6.5 x 10.5 cm + 1 envelope (crimson ink stamp, black ink handwriting, black postmark and 1 postage stamp on yellow paper ; 24.5 x 10.5 cm)
Material Type
Textual record, Graphic material

History

Collection
Mail art - mixed file (1 of 3)
Credit Line
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