Zambia, men playing drums at Makishi masquerade performance
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- Created Date
- 1961
- Description
Drummers
"The Makishi masquerade is performed at the end of the mukanda, an annual initiation ritual for boys between the ages of eight and twelve. This ritual is celebrated by the Vaka Chiyama Cha Mukwamayi communities, which include the Luvale, Chokwe, Luchazi and Mbunda peoples, who live in the northwestern and western provinces of Zambia."
Makishi masquerade. Zambia. (n.d.). UNESCO. Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Color
Volume 78, Page 7
- Creator
Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Collection
- Harrison Forman Collection
American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
American Geographical Society Library Digital Photo Archive - Africa
American Geographical Society Library Digital Photo Archive - Subjects
- Musicians
Drums (Musical instruments)
Men
Indigenous peoples
Ethnic groups
Luvale (African people) - Type
- image
- Format
- Slides
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978. Zambia, men playing drums at Makishi masquerade performance. 1961. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agsafrica/id/8003. (Accessed April 18, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978, (1961) Zambia, men playing drums at Makishi masquerade performance. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agsafrica/id/8003
- MLA citation style
- Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agsafrica/id/8003>.