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  • A Rapa Nui dancers paint their bodies before a music and dance performance for tourists on Easter Island.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy girls apply clay paint to decorate their bodies and faces for the boys' manhood initiation in the Ituri Forest.
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  • Chilean newlyweds in festive paint and feathers celebrate marriage Rapa Nui style. Many of the 100,000 visitors to the island are from Chile which dwarf the less than 6,000 inhabitants.
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  • A Rapa Nui dancer with body paint listens to native musicians.
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  • A Rapa Nui dancer with body paint listens to native musicians warm up back stage before the performance for tourists. on Easter Island.
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  • Tourists photograph a Rapa Nui native dancer in body paint. Approximately 6,000 Rapa Nui live on Easter Island, which belongs to Chile. They numbered only 111 in 1877 after slave traders and disease decimated the population. <br />
Most people associate Easter Island with the famous, ancient statues known as moai and are unaware that descendants of the Polynesian culture inhabit the island today.
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  • Villagers cover themselves in body paint for tourists.
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  • A Suri boy wearing body paint poses for tourists.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy boys apply body paint during manhood initiation rites. Gray color is commonly used to mean security, authority, maturity and stability.
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  • Aborigine grandmother with child in stroller, and man with body paint.
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  • Australian Aborigine man with body paint on legs watched by two women.
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  • An Australian Aborigine man applying body paint to his chest.
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  • An Australian Aborigine man preparing body paint.
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  • Hamar, wearing body paint, stand on stilts and beg from tourists.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy girls in body paint during boys' manhood initiation rites.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy boys paint each others bodies with clay while participating in manhood initiation rites.
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  • Pygmies daub each other with clay to decorate their faces and beautify their bodies.
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  • Pygmies girls daub each other with clay to beautify their bodies. They also do this in solidarity with the boys’ for their initiation into manhood ceremony called nKumbi
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  • A Kara man painted and dressed for an evening dance carries a goat.
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  • Traditional dress of feathers, paint and symbols of eagles are worn by a Native American for a Powwow in White River.
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  • A construction worker is covered with paint splatters while working on updating a Colonial building in historic old city.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy boys painted with clay decorations participate in manhood initiation rites.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy boy painted with clay symbols wears a grass skirt during manhood initiation rites.
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  • A tourist dances with a Rapa Nui dance group with native musicians.
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  • A Rapa Nui impresario takes a break at home with his family while waiting for tourists to arrive at his restaurant.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • A silver-painted but nude, tuba-playing unicyclist rides through the desert at Burning Man Festival. Balancing her sousaphone, she was like a mirage and disappeared into a crowd in the Black Rock Playa. The counter-culture celebration is held annually in Nevada and attracts thousands of costumed participants to party. Many performance artists plan unique and strange costumes that are creative and whimsical. There are no spectators, only participants.
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  • Street performers stand stationary like mannikins wearing costumes to attract a lunchtime crowd in downtown Santiago.
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  • A woman with a nail piercing the area under her lower lip.
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  • Children of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Nyangatom women dance at a peace treaty celebration.
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  • A photographer poses with a Nyangatom woman.
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  • A Kara tribe elder peers out over the Omo River at his goats feeding on the sorghum stalks after a harvest.
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  • Mbuti boys wear grass skirts and leaf mouthpieces to stay silent during their circumcision ceremony. Pgymies are of the Congo's few remaining traditional tribes in the rainforests of the world. They are threatened by logging companies and growing modern culture.
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  • Mbuti boys with photographer Randy Olson.
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  • A Rapa Nui dancer talks with tourists after the performance. Locals practice traditional music and dance and dress is costumes for entertainment.
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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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  • Nyangatom children at a peace treaty celebration.
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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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  • 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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  • A young Hamar boy inside a temporary camp near Dus village.
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  • A caucasian man photographs a bull jumping initiation ritual.
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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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  • A Nyangatom man cooking a goat at a peace treaty celebration.
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  • Nyangatom women prepare to dance at a peace treaty celebration.
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  • Nyangatom women prepare to dance at a peace treaty celebration.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Nyangatom women prepare to dance at a peace treaty celebration.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy boys view the whip from behind grass screen during manhood initiation rites.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy boys pass time during the endure rites of manhood alongside their peers.
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  • Mbuti Pygmies at a forest hunting camp. They are semi-nomadic and build nighttime shelters for sleeping.
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  • Though blind, an Mbute boy endures rites of manhood alongside peers. He learns survival skills in the forest and takes part in all the rituals over a five month period until the group is initiated and boys become men. When the boys run along the trails he does also, with his hands on the back of the boy in front of him. All boys are whipped each morning which is believed to help make them tough to survive in the Ituri Forest. <br />
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Pygmies are semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers who rely on a healthy forest for their livelihood.
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  • Though blind, an Mbuti boy (in foreground) endures rites of manhood alongside peers.
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  • Suri covers himself with clay body paint for ceremonial pole fights.
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  • Suri cover themselves with clay body paint for ceremonial pole fights.
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  • Tourists invited onto the stage dance with Rapa Nui dancers paint their bodies.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy boys painted with clay symbols on their bodies and faces participate in manhood initiation rites.
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