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South America, Peru, Cusco. A Quechua boy in a poncho and a chullo woollen cap with a Llama standing in front of an Inca wall in the UNESCO World Heritage listed former Inca capital of Cusco
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Australia, Queensland, Laura. Lockhart River dancers at the Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival.
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Australia, Queensland, Laura. Young indigenous dancer decorated with tribal body paint.
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Australia, Queensland, Laura. Young indigenous dancers at the Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival.
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Pataxo Indian people at the Reserva Indigena da Jaqueira near Porto Seguro, Bahia, Brazil, South America
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Australia, Queensland, Laura. Young indigenous dancers in tribal body paint. Laura, Queensland, Australia
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Red Ochre (or ocher stone) pigment used by Himba to create a reddish tint, Kaokoveld, Namibia, Africa
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Australia, Queensland, Laura. Young indigenous dancers at the Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival.
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South America, Peru, Cusco. A Quechua boy in a poncho and a chullo woollen cap with a Llama standing in front of an Inca wall in the UNESCO World Heritage listed former Inca capital of Cusco
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Pataxo Indian people at the Reserva Indigena da Jaqueira near Porto Seguro, Bahia, Brazil, South America
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Pataxo Indian people at the Reserva Indigena da Jaqueira near Porto Seguro, Bahia, Brazil, South America
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Masai woman with child in a masai village, Amboseli, Rift Valley, Kenya
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Australia, Queensland, Laura. Indigenous dancers at the Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival.
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Close-up of a boy, indigenous tribal dancer wearing feathered headdress and mask in the St Michael Archangel Festival parade in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
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Peru, A Peruvian woman with her child slung on her back shops at Santuranticuy market, held in Cusco on Christmas Eve every year.
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A Hadza boy carrying a bow and arrows. The Hadzabe are a thousand-strong community of hunter-gatherers who have lived in the Lake Eyasi basin for centuries. They are one of only four or five societies in the world that still earn a living primarily from wild resources.
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Childhood is brief in nomadic communities. From an early age,Turkana girls help their mothers with the household chores and look after their younger brothers and sisters during the day. The baby has wooden charms round her neck to ward off evil spirits.
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Children studying during a class taken by VSO volunteer Paul Jennings and local teacher Rebecca Ngovano, Angaza school, Lindi, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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A young Dassanech girl holds her little brother. She wears a leather skirt with an elaborate fringe of wooden and metal tassles. Much the largest of the tribes in the Omo Valley numbering around 50,000,the Dassanech (also known as the Galeb,Changila or Merille) are Nilotic pastoralists and agriculturalists.
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A Nyangatom woman stands with her baby on her hip beside her grass hut in his temporary camp. Nyangatom married women wear elaborately beaded skirts which reach the ground at the back and often have panels of different coloured calkfskin sewn into the tail The Nyangatom or Bume are a Nilotic tribe of semi nomadic pastoralists who live along the banks of the Omo River in south western Ethiopia.
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Native children wearing seal skin clothing, Museum in Nanortalik Port, Island of Qoornoq, Province of Kitaa, Southern Greenland, Kingdom of Denmark, Polar Regions
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A tourist accompanied by a retinue of children in a Dassanech settlement along the lower Omo River. Much the largest of the tribes in the Omo Valley numbering around 50,000,the Dassanech (also known as the Galeb,Changila or Merille) and Nilotic pastoralists and agriculturalists.
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A Nyangatom mother and young daughter in typical dress. Rugged skin clothing is still widely used.The Nyangatom are one of the largest tribes and arguably the most warlike people living along the Omo River in Southwest Ethiopia.
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A proud Turkana father and his young daughter. Both their hairstyles are typical of tribal custom in the west of Turkanaland.
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Group portrait of indigenous tribal dancers wearing colorful traditional costumes at the St Michael Archangel Festival parade in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
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A lively Nyangatom dance is enjoyed by villagers in the late afternoon.The elevated houses in the background are both homes and granaries, which have been built to withstand flooding when the Omo River bursts its banks The Nyangatom are one of the largest tribes and arguably the most warlike people living along the Omo River in Southwest Ethiopia.
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Close-up of a boy, indigenous tribal dancer wearing feathered headdress and mask in the St Michael Archangel Festival parade in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
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In the early morning,a young Samburu girl takes a kid to its mother. She will then milk the nanny goat leaving half the milk for the kid. Only women and children milk goats although every member of the family will drink the milk.
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A Karo mother and child. Heavy metal bracelets are common among older women.The Karo are a small tribe living in three main villages along the lower reaches of the Omo River in southwest Ethiopia.
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A young Dassanech girl holds her little brother. She wears a leather skirt with an elaborate fringe of wooden and metal tassles. Much the largest of the tribes in the Omo Valley numbering around 50,000,the Dassanech (also known as the Galeb,Changila or Merille) are Nilotic pastoralists and agriculturalists.
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A young boy of the Datoga tribe crosses the plains east of Lake Manyara in Northern Tanzania. The Manyara escarpment (a western boundary wall of the Gregory Rift) is visible in the distance. The Datoga (known to their Maasai neighbours as the Mang'ati and to the Iraqw as Babaraig) live in northern Tanzania and are primarily pastoralists..
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A Maasai boy herds his family's cattle near a waterhole in the foothills of Ol doinyo Orok (the Black Mountain). Childhood is very short in Maasailand; children begin to help their parents at a young age and may never attend school.
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Two young Datoga boys. The youngest wears metal bells around his ankles to ensure that he does not wander far from home without his mother or another member of the family hearing him. The Datoga (known to their Maasai neighbours as the Mang'ati and to the Iraqw as Babaraig) live in northern Tanzania and are primarily pastoralists.
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In the early morning,young Samburu girls take kids to their mothers. They will then milk the nanny goats leaving half the milk for the kids. Only women and children milk goats although every member of the family will drink the milk.
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Peru, A young Peruvian girl carries her baby sister on her back beside the massive church doors of Iglesia de la Compania de Jesus in Cusco s Plaza de Armas.
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In places where water is scarce,it is not unusual to see a Samburu mother or a girl from her husband's family wash a baby by squirting it with water from their mouths.
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A young Nyangatom woman carries her baby on her hip in an elaborately braided papoose. Her hair has been reddened with a mixture of ochre and animal fat. Typical of her tribe, she wears a calfskin skirt, multiple layers of bead necklaces and metal bracelets and amulets. The Nyangatom or Bume are a Nilotic tribe of semi nomadic pastoralists who live along the banks of the Omo River in south western
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Pokomo women and children clapping to the rhythm of drummers in Kenya's Tana River district.
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1920s NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN GROUP BY TEPEE MAN WOMAN CHILD HORSE DOG STONEY SIOUX TRIBE NEAR ALBERTA CANADA
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Woman of the Mursi Tribe with Kalashnikov and small child, Omo Valley, Ethiopia
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Tourist with Masai people, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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A family game-viewing from a landrover during a Cheli & Peacock mobile safari.
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A young Maasai girl wears a headband decorated with chains and cowrie shells that signifies her recent circumcision. Clitodectomy was commonly practiced by the Maasai but it is now gradually dying out.
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A girl harvests sugarcane in the Rangamati District in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh, Asia
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A Samburu warrior talks to children about the bush on a Cheli & Peacock family safari.
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Local woman carrying baby in a wrap in a traditional market,Zalaron,Chimborazo Province,Ecuador
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A young Maasai girl wearing a wooden plug in her pierced ear to elongate the earlobe. It has been a tradition of the Maasai for both men and women to pierce their ears and elongate their lobes for decorative purposes. Her two lower incisors have been removed - a common practice that may have resulted from an outbreak of lockjaw a long time ago.
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A young Maasai girl wears face paint and numerous beaded ornaments in preparation for a dance with warriors.
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A young Maasai girl in all her finery pauses at the entrance to her mother's home. The wall and roof of the house are plastered with a mixture of cow dung and soil.
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In the early morning,a Maasai herdsboy and his sister drive their family's flock of sheep across the friable,dusty plains near Malambo in northern Tanzania.
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Maasai girls in all their finery and with bells tied round their legs wait at the entrance to a house before dancing with warriors.
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The fetching hairstyle of a young Afar girl. Proud and fiercely independent,the nomadic Afar people live in the low-lying deserts of Eastern Ethiopia.
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Hamer (Hamar) people at Evangadi dancing (Hamer night dance), Dombo village, Turmi, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa
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Aku lady with baby, Wan Sai village, Kengtung (Kyaing Tong), Shan state, Myanmar (Burma), Asia
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A young Maasai girl keeps the holes in her pierced ears from closing with grass and rolled leaves. She will gradually stretch her earlobes by inserting progressively larger wooden plugs. By tradition,both Maasai men and women pierce and elongate their earlobes for decorative purposes.
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Young Maasai girls decorate their faces with ochre and clay in preparation for a dance.
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A girl harvests sugarcane in the Rangamati District, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh, Asia
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A young Datoga boy attired in beads. The metal bells worn around his ankles ensure that he does not wander far from home without his mother or another member of the family hearing him. The Datoga (known to their Maasai neighbours as the Mang'ati and to the Iraqw as Babaraig) live in northern Tanzania and are primarily pastoralists.
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Three Maasai girls sit on the edge of Shimu la Mungu (a volcanic blow hole known as 'God's hole') with the extinct volcano,Kerimasi,in the distance.
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Two jovial Pokot girls set off with leather bags in search of edible berries. Pokot girls and women traditionally wore leather skirts and capes made from home-tanned goatskins. The necklaces of young girls are made from small segments of sedge grass.
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A young Galla herdsboy with his family's cattle outside their homestead.
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A Nyangatom woman wears multiple layers of beads in necklaces, an elaborately beaded calfskin skirt and metal bracelets, amulets and anklets. She is standing beside a temporary beehive construction of sticks, grass and leaves built to provide shade for her goats. The Nyangatom or Bume are a Nilotic tribe of semi-nomadic pastoralists who live along the banks of the Omo River in south western Ethio
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When a Turkana woman gives birth,four goats will be slaughtered in a twenty-four-hour period to celebrate the occasion. The skin of the first goat will be made into a pouch for carrying the baby on its mother's back. The small wooden balls on the back of this pouch are charms to ward off evil spirits. The baby is wearing a bracelet of ostrich eggshell beads.
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A tourist accompanied by a retinue of children in a Dassanech settlement along the lower Omo River. Much the largest of the tribes in the Omo Valley numbering around 50,000,the Dassanech (also known as the Galeb,Changila or Merille) and Nilotic pastoralists and agriculturalists.
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1930s NATIVE AMERICAN CHILD ADMIRING BEADED NECKLACE OF ELDERLY INDIAN MAN SANTA CLARA PUEBLO NEW MEXICO USA
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The Karo of the Lower Omo River excel in body art. They decorate their faces and torsos elaborately using local white chalk, pulverised rock and other natural pigments. Even young children daub their faces before a dance.The Karo are a small tribe living in three main villages along the lower reaches of the Omo River in southwest Ethiopia.
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