Nike Soul Brooch - Black Ball

$100.00




Pewter plated enamelled brooch – signed Black balling is a rejection technique used in elections to membership into a gentlemen’s club, signal\ed by a black ball (as opposed to a white) as the ballot vote. Black ball explores the membership admission of maori into the revered national All Blacks rugby team. Despite the nationalisation of their haka performance maori status in society tends to be marked by a black balling of their cultural beliefs and practices.