{"product_id":"mansa-elefante-africano-de-sabana-poster-mate-enmarcado-marco-practico","title":"Mansa · African bush elephant · Framed poster","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-short-desc\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eDo you know Mansa's pink sweater, the one with the embroidered daisies? Keitumetse took years to finish it. The last daisy was sewn by Mansa, crooked, bottom left. This framed poster arrives ready to hang.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- LONG_DESC --\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis framed poster of Mansa shows an eight-year-old African bush elephant in a knitted pink sweater with a story behind every daisy. It arrives with a frame, ready to hang — no hunting for a framer, no measuring glass, no hassle. Take it out of the box, put it on the wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pink sweater Mansa wears in the portrait isn't a shop-bought piece. Keitumetse — her mother, a seamstress at a textile cooperative in Maun, Botswana — started knitting it during her pregnancy. Pastel pink wool, thick knit, round neck. She ran out of yarn halfway through and put it in a drawer. Seven years later, she found yarn in the same shade at a shop in Nata — three hours by road — and finished it over three months, knitting at night after putting Mansa to bed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe embroidered the daisies on top: white petals, yellow center, like the gazanias that burst up in the Kalahari after the first rains. When she gave it to Mansa — a Saturday in June, unwrapped, no ceremony — Mansa looked at every daisy, touched an uneven stitch on the left collar where Keitumetse had changed needles seven years earlier, and asked: \"Can I sew one?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe last daisy, bottom left, is slightly crooked. Mansa sewed it. It's her favorite.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe wears it even when it's forty degrees in December. If anyone tries to take it for washing, she negotiates timelines. There's an obvious explanation — it's clothing — and a less obvious one: it's tangible proof that someone sat up nights making something for her. In the portrait, that sweater is the center of the image. Pastel pink against gray skin. Daisies scattered unevenly, with that imperfection that marks something handmade. And if you look bottom left, there's Mansa's daisy. Crooked. Perfect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[Mansa's biography](https:\/\/www.yagopartal.com\/animal-kinhood\/mansa\/) has more about Keitumetse, the cooperative, the Boseja neighborhood, and daily life in Maun. The sweater is just one thread — one of many.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaun doesn't appear on postcards. It's the gateway to the Okavango Delta, but for the people who live there it's something else: unpaved streets, dry heat, red dust that gets into everything, free-roaming chickens, trucks on the Nata road from five in the morning. On the outskirts, elephants cross roads and break garden fences. The houses in the Boseja neighborhood are cement blocks with corrugated metal roofs and dirt yards. The Thamalakane river is ten minutes away on foot. The sky, when there are no clouds, has that dry savanna blue that seems to never end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat landscape is in the portrait even if it isn't literally visible. It's in the tones — the pink against a background that suggests earth and natural light — and in Mansa's expression, which carries that attentive calm of someone who grew up observing before speaking. A framed poster on a wall in London, Toronto, or Sydney brings that fragment of Botswana into a space that doesn't normally hold it. And that presence changes the wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe frame protects the print and gives it a finished look. Take it out of the box, hang it, done. If you have a narrow hallway or a gap above a piece of furniture, smaller formats work best. In living rooms or on wide walls, larger sizes let you see the sweater embroidery detail and the skin texture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnsure about the measurements? **Print sizes** has all the options. **Frame and mounting** shows the frame details. And **Paper and finish** covers the paper information — matte finish, stable colors, no surface sheen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA common question: does it work as a gift? Yes. It arrives protected, with frame, no additional framing needed. You don't have to add anything. Whether the recipient already knows Mansa — or is encountering an Animal Kinhood character for the first time — the portrait stands on its own. The pink sweater, the expression, the daisies: it's all there without needing prior explanation. **Shipping and returns** has the timelines and process if you need to plan dates.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yago Partal Studio","offers":[{"title":"Black \/ 12″×12″","offer_id":57664882016581,"sku":"5591708_4653","price":68.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black \/ 18″×18″","offer_id":57664882049349,"sku":"5591708_4656","price":89.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Red Oak \/ 12″×12″","offer_id":57664882082117,"sku":"5591708_15024","price":68.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Red Oak \/ 18″×18″","offer_id":57664882114885,"sku":"5591708_15030","price":89.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"White \/ 12″×12″","offer_id":57664882147653,"sku":"5591708_10756","price":68.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"White \/ 18″×18″","offer_id":57664882180421,"sku":"5591708_10759","price":89.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1052\/7830\/8677\/files\/mansa_ak-frame-000.webp?v=1776696844","url":"https:\/\/checkout.yagopartal.com\/products\/mansa-elefante-africano-de-sabana-poster-mate-enmarcado-marco-practico","provider":"Yago Partal · Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}