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"A scene from "Mapiko", a secret dance from the northern section of Mozambique. Centre, in mask, is the main dancer representing the evil spirits from the forest where the dance used to be performed. During the struggle for liberation the character…

"A scene from a dance by the Conjunto de Danza Popular, a dance group attached to the Karl Marx theatre in Havana. Here a mother [left] looks disapprovingly as she dances with her partner. The Conjunto de Danza Popular will participate in Carifesta…

"Flood damage exhibition - The Manchester Parish Library's Cecil Charlton Hall is the venue of the current API photographic exhibition "Floods in West Jamaica" which was officially opened on August 1 by Noel Chaplin general manager of Alpart. The…

"Clearly this is bad and something must be done about it, the quicker, the better is the consensus among Housing Minister Tony Spaulding [left] Sites and Services Director, Clive Laidley [centre] and Youth and Community Development Minister, Hugh…

"Everything goes in the construction of these dwellings - from rusty sheets of zinc for roofing, bamboo-lattices and flattened barrel sides -a t the York Town squatter settlements - unit for human occupation. This the Housing Ministry recognises, and…

Print depicting a Barbadian mulatto woman buying produce from two female vendors. One of the vendors is fully clad and sitting on a basket with another basket of fruits/vegetables before her. The second woman is standing topless with a basket of…

Four West Indian washerwomen - one a mulatta - washing in the river. A child is among the women who are covered from the waist down in cloths and wearing wraps on their heads.

Villagers merry making in the island of St. Vincent, with dancers and musicians. In the background is the landscape with huts on a hill.

A West Indian woman, wearing a checkered shawl and headwrap, holds out a dish with flowers towards two women. The woman wearing a broad rimmed hat has taken one of the flowers to smell. A boy, seated at the entrance of a nearby building, is watching…

Vendors at a market in St. Vincent attempting to sell pumpkin and other market goods.