REGION: Africa
COUNTRY: Zambia
YEAR PRINTED: 1992
VALUE: 2 kwachas

This stamp is one of a set issued by the Zambian government in 1992 to celebrate the country’s traditional masks. This stamp depicts the chizaluke mask of the Lwena (also called Luvale) people, used in the fwifwi dance performed at the end of the Makishi (adult initiation) ceremony.