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  • Young girls, dressed in traditional Swiss clothes, feed goats.
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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 man in silhouette wears a traditional brimmed straw hat.
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  • Brimmed hats mark traditional costume of people of the Ecuadorian Sierra.
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  • Otavolan woman in traditional dress in the Northern Sierra.
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  • Two Ladin women dress in traditional clothing that is often worn on Sundays and for ceremonial occasions linked to the ancient customs. Ladins in the small village in the Dolomites divided from other ethnic relatives to the far reaches of the mountains further away from German influences. The people living here speak Italian and German, but Ladin in their first language.
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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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  • Tourists are invited on stage to dance with a Rapa Nui dance group preforming traditional music and dance.
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  • A Masaai woman dries her clothes in the sun. Water and other survival necessities are rare in this area around Endulen, Tanzania.
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  • A Masaai family drying clothes in the sun.
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  • Mbuti boys endure whippings during a puberty ritual ending the manhood ceremony.<br />
Women carry whips to meet the men halfway through the village, and a melee ensures where they beat each other. Women try to control the destiny the child but the men traditionally win, and each boy is paraded through the village for the scarification ritual.
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  • A wedding is celebrated Rapa Nui style with traditions followed by some tourists on Easter Island.
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  • Refugee Pygmies wash near their leaf huts. They are under threat from logging companies and a rapidly changing world with little concern for indigenous people and their traditions.
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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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  • A covered woman photographs Sheik Tahnoon Bin Mohamed, Ruler of Alain.
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  • A covered woman photographs Sheik Tahnoon Bin Mohamed, Ruler of Alain.
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  • Covered women photographers gather for a view of the Ruler of Alain.
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  • An Indian festival, Vaisakhi, in Barcelona's Rambla de Catalunya area.
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  • A photographer takes images of an Indian festival, Vaisakhi, in Barcelona's Rambla de Catalunya area.
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  • Calves are used to lure camel mothers to the parade ground gate.
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  • A family parades their camels for all their neighbors to admire.
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  • Tents are set up, carpets laid on the sand and lavish food is shared.
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  • A hoist lifts a camel into a truck for his journey home.
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  • Hired trainers with their camels at the competition.
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  • A trainer coaxes camels to the judging area by giving them a treat.
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  • A trainer controls camels preparing for a morning judging.
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  • This Indian festival in the Ramblas Catalunya area of Barcelona is called Vaisakhi.  These are Sikhs from Punjab that started a procession in Ramblas Raval and carried it thru Ramblas Catalunya and ended at the Plaza St. Augustine. The festival includes the passing out of huge amounts of food.  The men in this street hauled cart after shopping cart of fresh fruit and passed it out to the public.
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  • Onlookers watch an Indian festival, Vaisakhi, in Barcelona's Rambla de Catalunya area.
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  • An Indian festival, Vaisakhi, in Barcelona's Rambla de Catalunya area.
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  • A hoist lifts a camel into a truck for her journey home.
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  • A trainer herds camels for a morning judging.
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  • Early morning at the annual camel beauty contest.
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  • Early morning fog at the camel beauty contest.
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  • Hired trainers with their camels at the competition.
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  • A family parades their camels for all their neighbors to admire.
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  • A family parades their camels for all their neighbors to admire.
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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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  • Camels have help mating at the camel beauty contest compound.
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  • Ruler of Alain arrives at the suq area of the camel beauty contest.
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  • Barbed wire fencing for the camels auctioned after the judging.
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  • Calves are used to lure camel mothers to the parade grounds gate.
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  • Hired trainers with their camels at the competition.
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  • Hired trainers with their camels at the competition.
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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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  • Calves are used to lure camel mothers to the parade ground gate.
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  • Men gather in the shade of a tent to socialize at a camel competition.
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  • Camel parade grounds and judging pens.
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  • A camel is hoisted aloft for a massage to limber it for competition.
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  • Tents are set up, carpets laid on the sand and lavish food is shared.
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  • Men gather in the shade of a tent to socialize at a camel competition.
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  • A Kara man stirs with root that makes the water drop all of its silt.
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  • Kara women dance as their sons prepare for a bull jumping initiation.
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  • Kara men, women and children participate in an evening dance.
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  • A Hamar woman prepares for a bull jumping initiation ritual.
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  • Local indigenous folk dancers in colorful costumes at a festival.
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  • A local indigenous girl inspects the nets while attending a salmon festival.
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  • Kara men, women and children participate in an evening dance.
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  • A goat is killed, roasted and shared at a wedding celebration.
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  • Dinka tribesmen and their cattle hide in acacia forests to escape attack by government forces. The Government of Sudan (GOS) dropped bombs nearby, wiping out an entire village and all of the livestock. Animals are a target because they are the last resource in times of famine.
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  • A camel is given a massage to limber it for competition.
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  • A young woman wears her fortune in gold threads in her sari for the wedding.
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  • A Ghanian chief protected by guards with gold handled swords.
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  • A Pygmy preacher at the Pentecost Church in Epulu.
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  • A mother holds her children waiting as Pygmy tribespeople are treated at a health clinic.
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  • A woman swoons at a religious ceremony.
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  • Shatila Bakery serves Middle Eastern pastries in Dearborn.
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  • Women weaving.
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  • A Ghanian chief protected by guards with gold handled swords at a festival. He is surrounded by the people of his community.
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  • An Afro-Cuban dance teacher shows dance moves of sea goddess Yemaya.
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  • An Afro-Cuban dance teacher shows dance moves of sea goddess Yemaya.
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  • An Afro-Cuban dance teacher shows dance moves of sea goddess Yemaya.
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  • An Afro-Cuban dance teacher looks out toward the ocean.
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  • Preparation for a Nyicheriesee ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • The Kenyan government supplies tents for dancers attending the Kalacha Cultural Festival.
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  • A woman hangs fish to dry on the shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • Gatherings such as this wedding celebration are important ceremonial occasions for tribespeople living around Lake Turkana.
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  • Gatherings such as this wedding celebration are important ceremonial occasions for tribespeople living around Lake Turkana.
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  • Dancers attending the Kalacha Cultural Festival.
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  • A herd of donkeys transport water in the Una Ura Oasis.
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  • A Daasanach girl milks a cow.
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  • Preparation for a wedding ceremony at a Turkana village outside Loiyangalani.
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  • Wedding ceremony near Lokichar in an area called Natur.
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  • Preparations for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A goat is slaughtered for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Hairstyles are created after the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Hairstyles are created after the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Preparation for a Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Daasanach girl during a Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Preparations for a Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Girls attend a Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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