- Collection type
- Photograph
- Description
- A group of girls wearing patterned cloth skirts and blue blouses are dancing together at a Malawi Young Pioneers (MYP) ceremony in Chitipa, Malawi. Next to them is a pole with flags attached positioned in the centre of a ring of white stones. In the background a crowd of people are watching.
- Geographical reference
- Northern Region; Chitipa District; Chitipa
- Date / Period
- Date of photograph: 08/1972
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 14/12/2018
- Photographic process
- Transparency Kodachrome
- Dimensions
- Image dimension 35 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2018.313.3545
Search terms: Food and Fuel Gathering, Commemoration, Dance
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