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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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  • An Aborigine and white man lighting up cigarettes together.
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  • Hamar, wearing body paint, stand on stilts and beg from tourists.
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  • Dancing and singing followed a totem raising ceremony. Tlinglet leaders dressed in colorful traditional clothing for a historic totem raising where seven totem poles were   placed in a Native Alaskan park in Klawock. Many of the 1000 Native Alaskans moved indoors to a gymnasium where festivities continued throughout the 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Bride and groom light candles in prayer during their traditional wedding ceremony at the cathedral in Juchitán.<br />
After the church wedding, the couple walked through the streets of town following musicians. They collected family members who carried food to a street blocked off for the party.
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  • Pedestrians and bicyclist in a street scene with stormy dark sky.
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  • Pedestrians and bicyclist in a street scene with stormy dark sky.
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  • An Australian Aborigine man and a young Aborigine girl.
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  • Aborigine grandmother with child in stroller, and man with body paint.
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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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  • A young Australian woman and two Aborigine children swimming.
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  • Aborigine mothers and children cool off during a swim in a river.
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  • Huastec Indian seller and an indigenous woman haggle over the price of a pig at the local outdoor market held every Sunday morning in Ciudad Valles.
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  • Sunset and shadows fall across a building in Lowry Pueblo, an archeological site located in Canyon of the Ancients National Monument. A treasure of Ansazi Indian ruins in Colorado, the pueblo was constructed around 1060 AD atop abandoned pit houses from an earlier period of occupation. A total of 40 rooms and 8 kivas at its peak in the early 11th century, it was home to approximately 100 people. The 176,000 acre monument of federal land administered by the Bureau of Land Management includes 20,000 archeological sites.
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  • Bugu has a dispute over a woman and challenges his rival to a Donga (stick fight)  Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights and will do it for tourist groups. You have to be careful so you aren't responsible for injury by being a tourist in this area.
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  • Residents of a remote village  in Kamchatka rush to meet the supply helicopter. Original inhabitants Khailino are indigenous. Dogs run wild in the street and locals on board a motorcycle race to try to get a woman on board to be taken where she can get medical attention. <br />
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In Northern Kamchatka, indigenous Koryak people and Russians came for “Northern money” when the Soviet Union wanted to tame the area. Income paid was eight times more than a similar job in Moscow, so some people figured out how to get all the necessary permits to work. When default happened, no one in the remote outposts received salaries.  People made a living from salmon caviar and created fishing brigades with distribution systems. Living in a very small community of 700 residents, and the temperatures drop to –40° in the winter, everyone works hard to merely survive and are kind to each other.
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  • Koryak residents of Khailino, Kamchatka, Russia, rush to get their mother to the poacher's helicopter so she can get medical treatment in Petropavlovsk. The poaching situation in these areas allows some individuals to pay for helicopter time and on return trips the helicopter is often empty. If you know poachers it's possible, in this case, to get medical care.
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  • Pygmies chop down the forest they need for their own survival. As Bantus move into this area and search for gold or other resources, these cancerous settlements in the forest grow and grow and eventually the Pygmies don't have the healthy forest they need to survive.
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  • A Koryak man dries fish in his summer camp that will feed his family through the winter. Koryaks are an indigenous people of Kamchatka Krai in the Russian Far East, who inhabit the coastlands of the Bering Sea to the south of the Anadyr basin and the country to the immediate north of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The koryak are typically split into two groups. The coastal people Nemelan (or Nymylan) meaning ‘village dwellers’ due to their sedentary fishing habits and the inland Koryaks, reindeer herders called Chauchen (or Chauchven) meaning ‘rich in reindeer’ who are more nomadic.
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  • Rain did not stop the celebrations of dancing and singing that followed a historic totem raising ceremony on Prince of Wales Island.<br />
Generations of Tlingit and Haida Native Alaskans retain strong cultural ties with the natural world reflected in their totem art depicting whales and bears.
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  • Homeward-bound farm families loaded with food and possessions, crowd into the flatbed of a pickup truck taxi as the open-air market in Xilitla draws to and end. In one of the largest ethnic Huastec Indian towns, each Sunday morning the narrow cobbled streets fill with stalls selling locally grown coffee, sugarcane, incense and corn tamales from the market.
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  • A Ladin funeral procession seen trough a lace curtained window in a small village of LaVal in the Alps where the people are isolated and speak German and Italian but also Ladin, their own ethnic language.
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  • A Ladin farmer drives a horse-drawn sled on steep hills with small patches of melting snow outside the Dolomites. The community of LaVal remains isolated by geography and the people retained their own ethnic language although they also speak German and Italian.
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  • Two nephews watch their uncle milk a cow in the pasture on the farm in a rural area near the Dolomites. The isolated mountain community LaVal has roots in agriculture speak their own ethnic Ladin language.
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  • Zapotec Indian women wearing colorful, traditional clothing dance into the night at a wedding party in the streets of Juchitan, Mexico. Weekends are full of wedding celebrations in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the narrow and flat part of the country where the Zapotec culture is still strong. Women are noticeably open and confident, taking a leading role in business and government in matrilineal traditions. The Isthmus never became part of the Aztec Empire and resistance to the Spanish was strong in the mid-1500s. After the church wedding, the couple walks 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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  • A Navajo woman lets her goats out to graze in Canyon De Chelly National Monument, a vast park in northeastern Arizona, on Navajo tribal lands. Its prominent features include Spider Rock spire, about 800-feet tall, and towering sandstone cliffs surrounding a verdant canyon. Inhabited by several Native American peoples for millennia, the area is dotted with prehistoric rock art.
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  • On her 15th birthday, a Zapotec Indian girl in Juchitán attends communion at the Catholic church before her Quinceañera, which marks her passage from girlhood to womanhood. <br />
Dressed in her finest white dress and holding a bouquet of flowers, she kneels to light a candle.
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  • A young Zapotec woman adorned in a flower wreath sits in the shadows during a wedding celebration in the Chagigo neighborhood of Juchitan. Wedding celebrations happen on weekends in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, where traditional culture is strong.  Women take leading roles in business and government in the town with the population of approximately 70,000 people.  The Mexican Isthmus never became part of the Aztec Empire, as resistance to the Spanish was strong in the mid-1500s.
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  • A farm family heads home after working in the fields in LaVal under the vista of the Dolomites.  The mountain cliffs are so steep that no glaciers formed on them. The Alps thrust up when tectonic plates collided between Africa and Eurasia.  The Ladin people living in the mountain region have a close bond with nature and the outdoors.
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  • A religious Ladin man reads a newspaper while watching a Catholic funeral on television in the kitchen of his farm house in the Dolomites. The community is close-knit and have a language unique to their region in LaVal in the Italian Alps.
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  • A Ladin man collects a pail of water from a cattle trough and traverses carefully across a sheet of ice. Life is hard in rural, isolated villages like LaVal in the Italian Alps.
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  • Soldiers help a Mayan mother and her baby in Chiapas where the Mexican army clashed with local Zapatista rebels demanding more assistance from the federal government.
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  • On the edge of the PanAmerican highway, a Huastec Indian family plays soccer kicking the ball under a clothes line in the front courtyard. The family still follows the old ways in the mountains of Mexico, living in a thatched adobe house and surviving on farming.
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  • Shadows fall across Painted Hand Pueblo, a tower in Canyon of the Ancients National Monument, a treasure of Ansazi Indian ruins in Colorado. The 176,000 acres of federal land administered by the Bureau of Land Management includes 20,000 archeological sites.
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  • Rain did not stop the celebrations of dancing and singing that followed a historic totem raising ceremony on Prince of Wales Island.<br />
Generations of Tlingit and Haida Native Alaskans retain strong cultural ties with the natural world reflected in their storytelling totem art depicting whales and bears.
    MELISSA FARLOW_MM7258_1075034.jpg
  • 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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  • Aborigine men skinning and butchering a fresh killed water buffalo.
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  • Masaai men celebrate the end of the weeks-long orpul ritual.
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  • The Kara tribe come racing over the hill from their village when they hear engine noise to greet one of the few boats on the Omo.
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  • Mbuti boys wear grass skirts during their circumcision ceremony.
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  • A man prepares to whip a woman during an initiation ritual.
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  • A Hamar female, wearing butter, awaits her fiance.
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  • Hamar women prepare to be whipped during an initiation ritual.
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  • Hamar tribesmen prepare for a bull jumping initiation ritual.
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  • An Aborigine family placing pukamani poles at a gravesite.
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  • A Pygmy chops down forest for a garden.
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  • Australian Aborigine man with body paint on legs watched by two women.
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  • An Australian Aborigine man preparing body paint.
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  • Though blind, an Mbuti boy (in foreground) endures rites of manhood alongside peers.
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  • Colorful lights play over patrons at a dance club.
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  • An Aborigine family sitting outside. Two are painting a pukamani pole.
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  • Boys wearing ceremonial skirts trail their elders to a hunting camp.
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  • Australian Aborigines butchering a fresh killed water buffalo.
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  • The sound of pipes fills an Mbuti camp as men play by the fireside.
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  • Hamar women on market day in Turmi.
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  • Hamar women on market day in Turmi.
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  • Dressed in colorful traditional clothing, Tlingit tribe leaders celebrate after a ceremony involving six totem poles that were raised in a Native Alaskan local park.
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  • Hamar women in a bar on market day.
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  • Hamar tribespeople in a bar on market day.
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  • The first bridge over the Omo River in this area is at Omorate. This man arranges building materials used in temporary supports for the bridge.
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  • An oil-industry Chinese-built road going through a Hamar village.
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  • Pukamani poles mark Australian Aborigine grave sites.
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  • Hamar tribe in a small village next to Omorate where the first bridge across the Omo River is being built. This town is experimenting with wind power supplied by one of the NGO’s.
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  • Hamar head to market day on a dirt road to Kaifur.
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  • A Huastec Indian woman arranges shoes to sell at the Ciudad Valles Sunday market in the mountain region of northern Mexico.
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  • Hamar women in a bar on market day.
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  • Colored lights playing over a couple in a nightclub.
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  • A mourning daughter leans on a pukumani pole at her father's grave.
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  • Sandals are removed before entering tents.
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  • At a camel competition, entrants sit around a campfire.
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  • Two Australian Aborigine women looking out of large glass windows.
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  • Andrea the Crocodile, built in 1987 by vocational students.
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  • Hamar girls in boarding school.
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  • An Aborigine aims a shotgun while another prepares a spear.
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  • Aborigine children sit on a truck after arriving at a swimming hole.
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  • Tired revelers at a nightclub after the lights come up.
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  • Gypsy street musicians in Istanbul.
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  • A family parades their camels for all their neighbors to admire.
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  • Two Ladin men share the news over a cup of morning coffee in a restaurant in the village of LaVal in the Dolomites.
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  • Men gather in the shade of a tent to socialize at a camel competition.
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  • Men gather in the shade of a tent to socialize at a camel competition.
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  • Men gather in the shade of a tent to socialize at a camel competition.
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  • An Aboriginal man applies yellow ochre to his body before a funeral.
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  • A group of Australians cooling off in a patch of flooded road.
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  • An informal portrait of Tiwi Islander Merle Carmel.
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  • Three Australian Aborigines seen through windows in a van.
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  • Cepni women in traditional garb gather on a Turkish street.
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  • Fathers of Broome's pearl diving business rest in Pioneer Cemetery.
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  • Aborigines gathering eggs from a saltwater crocodile nest.
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  • Aborigines gathering eggs from a saltwater crocodile nest.
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  • Aborigines gathering eggs from a saltwater crocodile nest.
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  • Aborigines gathering eggs from a saltwater crocodile nest.
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  • Aborigines gathering eggs from a saltwater crocodile nest.
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  • A young Aborigine girl hunting for mud crabs among mangrove trees.
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  • Aborigines gathering eggs from a saltwater crocodile nest.
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