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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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  • A Suri woman drinking honey beer over her traditional clay lip plate.
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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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  • 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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  • Young girls, dressed in traditional Swiss clothes, feed goats.
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  • Water fight at China Folk Culture Villages.
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  • Water fight at China Folk Culture Villages.
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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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  • Kalacha Cultural Festival. The Kenyan government supplies tents for dancers attending the Kalacha Cultural Festival.
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  • The Kenyan government supplies tents for dancers attending the Kalacha Cultural Festival.
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  • Kalacha Cultural Festival where the Kenyan government gathers Turkana tribespeople once a year to indoctrinate them.
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  • The Kalacha Cultural Festival.
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  • The Kalacha Cultural Festival.
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  • A dancer attending the Kalacha Cultural Festival.
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  • The Kenyan government supplies tents for dancers attending the Kalacha Cultural Festival.
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  • The Kenyan government supplies tents for dancers attending the Kalacha Cultural Festival.
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  • The Kenyan government supplies tents for dancers attending the Kalacha Cultural Festival.
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  • The Kenyan government supplies tents for dancers attending the Kalacha Cultural Festival.
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  • Dancers attending the Kalacha Cultural Festival.
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  • Dancers attending the Kalacha Cultural Festival.
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  • Dancers attending the Kalacha Cultural Festival.
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  • Dancers attending the Kalacha Cultural Festival.
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  • The Kenyan government supplies tents for dancers attending the Kalacha Cultural Festival.
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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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  • 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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  • Women try on gold necklaces in a showroom on Askhays Tritiya day.  India is the top gold consumer with buyers collecting for investment as much as adornment.
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  • A busy jewelry store in Chennai. India is the top gold consumer with buyers collecting for investment as much as adornment.
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  • Preparation 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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  • 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 Daasanach girl prepares for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Daasanach females prepare for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Daasanach girls prepare for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Daasanach girls attend the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Daasanach girl, shows a determined face as her mother prepares her for a pairing off ceremony, where men make offers for future wives.
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  • Men, women and 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 Banna male becomes a man during a cattle jumping initiation ritual.
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  • A Daasanach girl milks a cow.
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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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  • Hairstyles are created after the 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 cow slaughtered for 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 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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  • Girls attend a Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Girls attend a Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Girls attend a Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Daasanach village.
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  • A Daasanach village.
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  • A girl during a Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Females attend a Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Daasanach females prepare for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Daasanach girl prepares for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Daasanach girl prepares for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Daasanach girl prepares for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Daasanach girls attend the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Daasanach girls prepare for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Daasanach girls attend the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Daasanach girls attend the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Daasanach girls prepare for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Daasanach girl with a calf and cows.
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  • Daasanach girls prepare for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Daasanach girls prepare for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Daasanach girl prepares for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Daasanach girl with a goat and kid.
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  • Kara men prepare for a coming of age ceremony
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  • A Kara man stirs with root that makes the water drop all of its silt.
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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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  • A Kara man painted and dressed for an evening dance carries a goat.
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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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  • 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 Hamar woman prepares for 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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  • 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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  • Daasanach girls attend the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Kara son prepares for bull jumping initiation into manhood.
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  • A Daasanach girl milks a cow.
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  • A Daasanach girl, shows a determined face as her mother prepares her for a pairing off ceremony, where men make offers for future wives.
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  • Preparation for a Nyicheriesee ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A covered woman photographs Sheik Tahnoon Bin Mohamed, Ruler of Alain.
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  • A family parades their camels for all their neighbors to admire.
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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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  • 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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