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  • Elroyce Makley strums her Autoharp, while she and her daughters stroll through the Stephen Foster State Folk Culture Center, located in Okefenokee National Wi ldlife Refuge in southern Georgia.
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  • BBoy and BGirl dancers, a young, urban culture expressed through rhythmic music and acrobatic dance. She's tough--the only female in the dance group that demands physical strength and agility to perform their routines.
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  • BBoy and BGirl dancers, a young, urban culture expressed through rhythmic music and acrobatic dance. The young Ecuadorian teens work hard perfecting their moves--a mixture of modern dance and hip hop with indigenous influences.
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  • The first Camel Beauty contest was in March of 2007 and this area was just a dusty piece of desert on the edge of the empty quarter.  About an hour outside of Abu Dhabi the Al Dhafra Festival put on by the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage is under the patronage of His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
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  • A father takes to the floor of the living room in their home as he shows his son moves to try when BBoy dancing. Young, urban culture is expressed through rhythmic music and acrobatic dance similar to hip hop.
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  • A father watches his son BBoy dancing, a young, urban culture expressed through rhythmic music and acrobatic dance. Their living room floor is a perfect space to practice difficult hip hop moves.
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  • A father skilled in BBoy dancing helps his son practice difficult move in a Quito park. A young, urban culture celebrates hip hop expressed through rhythmic music and acrobatic dance.
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  • A Mursi woman and child in village of Galap.
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  • Kara boys and girls dance at a celebration.
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  • Kara men, women and children participate in an evening dance.
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  • Kara men, women and children participate in an evening dance.
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  • Hamar, wearing body paint, stand on stilts and beg from tourists.
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  • A Kara man painted and dressed for an evening dance carries a goat.
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  • Kara tribesmen with bows and arrows on the Omo River.
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  • Men, women and children of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men, women and children of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Islam and Arab culture came to Sudan through trading centers like the ruined Red Sea port of Suakin.
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  • The Bale ceremony is precursor to the Guol ceremony which is a young woman's path to womanhood. The male asks the female to partner and previously she did not have the right to refuse. But there have been changes and the parents will now pay attention to their daughter's wishes.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe dance at a bull jumping initiation.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe dance at a bull jumping initiation.
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  • Kara men, women and children participate in an evening dance.
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  • Nyangatom shoot a cow with an arrow and then gather the blood.
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  • Sorghum fields guarded by tribespeople on stands at Selicho fishing village. Armed with a homemade slingshot and mud balls, a girl guards her sorghum crop from hungry birds.
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  • A local tribal woman cuts firewood and makes charcoal for the refugees in the Kakuma Refugee Camp near Lake Turkana.
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  • Children gather firewood in a rock-strewn valley. Yayla culture involves go up and down the mountains looking for forage for your animals.
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  • With spear and patience, El Molo tribesmen stalk fish the old way along the eastern shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • With spear and patience, El Molo tribesmen stalk fish the old way along the eastern shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • With spear and patience, El Molo tribesmen stalk fish the old way along the eastern shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • Armed with a homemade slingshot and mud balls, a girl guards her sorghum crop from hungry birds.
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  • Armed with a homemade slingshot and mud balls, girls guard a sorghum crop from hungry birds.
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  • Suffering an unknown malady, a woman is slathered in mud by a Daasanach healer, who said evil spirits had caused her illness and the lake was her last hope for a cure.
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  • A Daasanach girl with a calf and cows.
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  • With spear and patience, El Molo tribesmen stalk fish the old way along the eastern shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • With spear and patience, El Molo tribesmen stalk fish the old way along the eastern shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • With spear and patience, El Molo tribesmen stalk fish the old way along the eastern shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • Local people cut firewood and make charcoal for the refugees in the Kakuma Refugee Camp near Lake Turkana.
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  • Waving whips, clubs, and traditional stools, Daasanach men dance their way into a crowd of potential wives at a pairing off ceremony in Ileret.
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  • Suffering an unknown malady, a woman is slathered in mud by a Daasanach healer, who said evil spirits had caused her illness and the lake was her last hope for a cure.
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  • Suffering an unknown malady, a woman is slathered in mud by a Daasanach healer, who said evil spirits had caused her illness and the lake was her last hope for a cure.
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  • Suffering an unknown malady, a woman is slathered in mud by a Daasanach healer, who said evil spirits had caused her illness and the lake was her last hope for a cure.
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  • A Daasanach girl with a goat and kid.
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  • A local tribal woman cuts firewood and makes charcoal for the refugees in the Kakuma Refugee Camp near Lake Turkana.
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  • Waving whips, clubs, and traditional stools, Daasanach men dance their way into a crowd of potential wives at a pairing off ceremony in Ileret.
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  • Suffering an unknown malady, a woman was slathered in mud by a Daasanach healer, who said evil spirits had caused her illness and the lake was her last hope for a cure.
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  • Armed with a homemade slingshot and mud balls, a girl guards her sorghum crop from hungry birds.
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  • With spear and patience, El Molo tribesmen stalk fish the old way along the eastern shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • With spear and patience, El Molo tribesmen stalk fish the old way along the eastern shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • A moai and dog at Plaza Hatumatua in downtown Hanga Roa.
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  • A native dancer, a tourist and a dog at Ahu Tahia.
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  • An ancient Moai statue and wild horses on Rano Raraku crater.
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  • Bedouin spectators overlook camel parade grounds and judging pens.
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  • Bedouin spectators overlook camel parade grounds and judging pens.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Funeral and burial for a Suri woman.
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  • Ancient Moai statues and wild horses on Anakena Beach.
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  • Funeral and burial for a Suri woman.
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  • Funeral and burial for a Suri woman.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Chilean newlyweds in festive paint and feathers celebrate marriage Rapanui style.
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  • Chilean newlyweds in festive paint and feathers celebrate marriage Rapanui style.
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  • Tents are set up, carpets laid on the sand and lavish food is shared.
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  • Tents are set up, carpets laid on the sand and lavish food is shared.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Banna males prepare for a bull jumping initiation ritual and participants are photographed by tourists.
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  • A camel with oblong nostrils and drooping lips.
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  • Spectators overlook the camel parade grounds and judging pens.
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  • Cars and cash are the prizes for winning camels in the competition.
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  • Camels are washed in preparation for the contest and competition.
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  • Entrants arriving for the camel contest in cars and trucks.
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  • A work group clears and burns fields in preparation for planting.
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  • A boy and his pet baboon wander the Suri village of Tulgit.
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  • Man holding blue hose, and another handing a tool.
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  • A boy and his pet baboon wander the Suri village of Tulgit. He has painted his pet in hopes of getting a few tourist coins.
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  • Pilgrims and local people bathe in the sacred Ganges River.
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  • A camel with oblong nostrils and drooping lips.
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  • Arriving for the camel contest in cars, trucks and by camel.
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  • Camel parade grounds and judging pens.
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  • An El Molo man with his daughter and catch.
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  • The ritual killing, roasting and sharing of a bull that will feed dozens of the Daasanach tribe.
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  • A goat is killed, roasted and shared at a wedding celebration.
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  • A tourist walk on top of a worn pyramid above a tomb and archeological site.<br />
The Huaca Rajada, of Sipán, Peru, is a Moche Pyramid near Chiclayo, Peru in the Lambayeque Valley, famous for the tomb of the Lord of Sipán, Peru, excavated in 1987. The ruins of Sipán are dated from 50–700 AD, during the Moche culture.
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  • Mysterious Nazca lines form animal and geometric figures seen from the air.  A hummingbird shape as well as perfect geometric designs like triangles, rectangles and straight lines run for several kilometers across the desert. The desert floor is covered in a layer of iron oxide-coated pebbles of a deep rust color. Anthropologists believe the Nazca culture that created them began around 100 B.C. and flourished from A.D. 1 to 700. The ancient peoples created their designs by removing the top 12 to 15 inches of rock, revealing the lighter-colored sand below.
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  • Some prized horses live a pampered life in retirement and command large amount of money for breeding rights in the hopes they’ll pass on the best qualities of their bloodline. An Irish farm, Ashford Stud which is part of international horse racing business Coolmore, was built in recent years and features stone barns and bridges creating the charm of an earlier era. Stalls are filled with plush straw for bedding under chandeliers that shine in the cupolas.  <br />
Past Kentucky Derby winner Thunder Gulch's stud fees are as high as $125,000 per mating. A farm worker leads the stallion to a breeding barn.
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  • After the church wedding, the bride and groom are escorted through the streets of town following musicians. They collected family members who carried food to the street blocked off for the party. <br />
Mexico's narrowest point is the Isthmus of Tehuantepec--flat, country where the Zapotec culture is still strong.  Women take leading role in business and government.  The Isthmus never became part of the Aztec Empire and resistance to the Spanish was strong in the mid-1500s.
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  • A young shepherd holds a lamb in front of his rural home in the desert. He lives with his family in a wet, foggy stretch of northern Chile that surrounds the cloud forests of Fray Jorge National Park. Despite the dampness, cactus thrive there and inventive villagers plant them in rows to form livestock pens. <br />
Small cacti of Quisco Cacto or Echinapsis chilensisof species, are planted in a row and grow together making an effective and inexpensive fence. <br />
Parque Nacional Fray Jorge, a strange landscape of cactus and yet, it is wet and foggy. It is described as an ecological island.
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  • Lightning bolt strikes and a rainbow appears as sun sets during summer storm season. The gate is closed tightly at the end of a long work day.
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  • A Zapotec Indian woman in traditional clothing serves food to wedding guests while others dance into the night. Weekends are full of wedding celebrations in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico, the narrow and flat part of the country where the Zapotec culture is still strong. <br />
Women are noticeably open and confident, taking a leading role in business and government. <br />
The Isthmus never became part of the Aztec Empire and resistance to the Spanish was strong in the mid-1500s.  This party was complete with traditional food and dancing. After the church wedding, the couple walked through the streets of town following musicians. They collect family and carry food to where the street is blocked off for the party.
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  • The bride and groom put their heads together and share a private moment at their wedding party.  Weekends are full of celebrations complete with traditional food and dancing in the street. After the church wedding, the couple walked through the streets of town following musicians. They collected family members who carried food to the street blocked off for the party. <br />
Mexico's narrowest point is the Isthmus of Tehuantepec--flat, country where the Zapotec culture is still strong.  Women take leading role in business and government.  The Isthmus never became part of the Aztec Empire and resistance to the Spanish was strong in the mid-1500s.
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  • The Mbuti drape nets between trees and flush game toward them.
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  • Dinka tribesmen and their cattle escape attack by government forces.
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  • Pin Oak Farm owner and breeder Josephine Abercrombie ran a prominent 4,000 acre farm near Versailles. A horse lover in her childhood, she bred of highly-trained successful race horses. Racing season brings on a flurry of parties and social events. Abercrombie was philanthropic and highly respected. She died in 2022.
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  • Some prized horses live a pampered life in retirement and command large amount of money for breeding rights in the hopes they’ll pass on the best qualities of their bloodline. An Irish-owned farm, Ashford Stud which is part of international horse racing business Coolmore, was built in recent years and features stone barns and bridges creating the charm of an earlier era. Stalls are filled with plush straw for bedding under chandeliers that shine in the cupolas.  <br />
Past Kentucky Derby winner Thunder Gulch's stud fees are as high as $125,000 per mating. A farm worker leads the stallion to a breeding barn.
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  • Flies on an Masai infant and his mother.
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  • The hands of a midwife and a newborn baby girl at a rural clinic.
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  • A doctor and a patient at a health clinic.
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