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Masai warriors doing the traditional jump dance, Masai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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1960s 1970s WEST INDIAN STYLE DANCERS WITH DRUMMER ON TROPICAL BEACH AND TOURISTS HOLIDAY MAN WOMAN FAD NOSTALGIA FOLK
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Nyangatom (Bumi) tribal dance ceremony, Omo River Valley, Ethiopia, Africa
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Dancers performing traditional Zulu dance, Shakaland, Eshowe, Zululand, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Africa
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During an eunoto ceremony when Maasai warriors become junior elders,their heads are shaved and they daub themselves with white clay.
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Kenya,Kajiado,lpartimaro. Two Maasai warriors in full regalia. The headress of the man on the left is made from the mane of a lion while the one on the right is fringed with black ostrich feathers. Their traditional weaponry includes long-bladed spears and shields are made of buffalo hide.
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During their dances,Maasai warriors take turns to leap high in the air from a standing position without bending their knees. They achieve this by flexing their ankles in a seemingly effortless way .
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Kenya,Lamu Island,Lamu. Swahili men celebrate a Muslim festival with a dance on the waterfront at Lamu town.
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Dancers performing traditional Zulu dance, Shakaland, Eshowe, Zululand, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Africa
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. A masked dancer performs at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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During Samburu wedding celebrations,warriors resplendent with long Ochred braids dance with young girls who have put on all their finery for the occasion. Both warriors and girls smear their faces,necks and shoulders with red ochre mixed with animal fat to enhance their appearance. Two spears are tipped with ostrich-feather pompoms.
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Song is an art form ingrained in Turkana culture. At the end of a dance session,the participants invariably enjoy the Song of the Bulls. Each young man will take centre-stage to extol the praises of his favourite ox. He will explain how it came into his possession,its distinguishing traits and with outstretched arms,imitate the shape of its horns.
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Karo men excel in body art. Before a dance, they will decorate their faces and torsos elaborately using local white chalk, pulverised rock and other natural pigments. While older men style their hair with clay, young men prefer to braid theirs.Every man carries a wooden stool, which doubles as a pillow at night.The Karo are a small tribe living in three main villages along the lower reaches of the
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Gitega, Burundi. Traditional dancers perform at many local events, varying in style from district to district.
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Men and women dance during a month long Dassanech ceremony. The men wear leopard, cheetah or serval cat skins draped on their backs and black ostrich feather headdresses. The women, dressed in skins, hang a single black and white colobus monkey skin down their backs.
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Kigali, Rwanda. The Intore dancers perform at FESPAD Pan African dance festival.
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A man and wife of a San community dance during a sing-song round their campfire. The men have rattles wound round their legs to help the rest of them keep rhythm during their dances.These NS hunter gatherers live in the Xai Xai Hills close to the Namibian border. Their traditional way of life is fast disappearing.
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Young Datoga men jump high in the air during a dance. 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 Dassanech man in full tribal regalia participates in a dance during a month long ceremony. He wears a cheetah skin draped on his backs and a black ostrich feather headdress. He dances holding a long stick and a simulated shield.His face is smeared with mud giving him a singular appearance.
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Maasai warriors resplendent with long ochred braids relax and wait for the start of a ceremony. Red has always been their preferred colour.
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Song is an art form ingrained in Turkana culture. After months of separation,young men and girls gather together during the rains when grass is abundant and life is relatively easy for a while. The Turkana have a rich repertoire of at least twenty dances,most of which are quite energetic.
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Mali,Timbuktu. A group of Tuareg men and women sing and dance near their desert home,north of Timbuktu.
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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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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. Masked dancers wearing the satimbe mask perform at the Dogon village of Tereli. This mask honours the primordial woman who is said to have discovered the original Dogon masks. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Song is an art form ingrained in Turkana culture. At the end of a dance session,the participants invariably enjoy the Song of the Bulls. Each young man will take centre-stage to extol the praises of his favourite ox. He will explain how it came into his possession,its distinguishing traits and with outstretched arms,imitate the shape of its horns.
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Vruniga, Rwanda. Traditional Intore dancers perform at the annual gorilla naming ceremony, Kwita Izina.
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Karo men excel in body art. Before a dance, they will decorate their faces and torsos elaborately using local white chalk, pulverised rock and other natural pigments. While older men style their hair with clay, young men prefer to braid theirs.Every man carries a wooden stool, which doubles as a pillow at night.The Karo are a small tribe living in three main villages along the lower reaches of the
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. A masked dancer performs at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Kigali, Rwanda. A traditional Tanzanian dancer performs at FESPAD Pan African dance festival.
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A bushman,or San,collapses in a trance during a sing-song round their campfire. The men have rattles wound round their legs to help the rest of them keep rhythm during their dances.These NS hunter gatherers live in the Xai Xai Hills close to the Namibian border. Their traditional way of life is fast disappearing.
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Bushmen,or San,dance during a sing-song round their campfire. The men have rattles wound round their legs to help the rest of them keep rhythm during their dances.These NS hunter gatherers live in the Xai Xai Hills close to the Namibian border. Their traditional way of life is fast disappearing.
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Gitega, Burundi. A young boy performs with the traditional Tambourinares at Gitega museum.
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Song is an art form ingrained in Turkana culture. At the end of a dance session,the participants invariably enjoy the Song of the Bulls. Each young man will take centre-stage to extol the praises of his favourite ox. He will explain how it came into his possession,its distinguishing traits and with outstretched arms,imitate the shape of its horns.
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The invited guests at a Samburu wedding gather together to sing in praise of the couple and to dance. Celebrations will go on late into the night.
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One of the most important Maasai ceremonies is the eunoto when warriors become junior elders. Early one morning before the cattle are taken to pasture,their mothers shave their long ochred locks,which makes their appearance very different. One initiate can be seen blowing a Kudu horn trumpet.
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Bujumbura, Burundi. A traditonal perormer blows a horn at a celebration in the city.
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Masai man jumping while performing a Masai traditional dance, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. A mask dance at the Dogon village of Tereli which is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is performed at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Morocco,Fes. Two whirling Dervishes perform during a concert at the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music. Members of the Al Kindi Ensemble perform the music.
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Kigali, Rwanda. A Intore dancer entertains at FESPAD Pan African dance festival.
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Karo men excel in body art. Before a dance, they will decorate their faces and torsos elaborately using local white chalk, pulverised rock and other natural pigments. While older men style their hair with clay, young men prefer to braid theirs.Every man carries a wooden stool, which doubles as a pillow at night.The Karo are a small tribe living in three main villages along the lower reaches of the
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. Masked stilt dancers wearing coconut shells as breasts perform at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. A masked dancer performs at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Mali,Timbuktu. A group of Tuareg men and women sing and dance near their desert home,north of Timbuktu.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. Masked stilt dancers wearing coconut shells as breasts perform at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. A masked dancer performs at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Kenya. The Swahili elite, Wangwana, perform the traditional stick dance during Maulidi, celebration of Prophet Mohammed s birthday.
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Portrait of a Hamer (Hamar) child at Evangadi dancing (night dance), Dombo Village, Turmi, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa
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A bushman,or San,dances during a sing-song round their campfire. The men have rattles wound round their legs to help the rest of them keep rhythm during their dances.These NS hunter gatherers live in the Xai Xai Hills close to the Namibian border. Their traditional way of life is fast disappearing.
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Kenya,Masai Mara National Reserve. A teenage boy on safari dances with the Maasai moran outside a manyatta at the entrance to Masai Mara Reserve.
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A traditional transvestite dancer performs in the Djemaa el Fna,Marrakech.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. A masked dancer wearing coconut shells as breasts performs at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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A bushman,or San,weeps in a trance as he is helped by members of his band during a sing-song round their campfire. The men have rattles wound round their legs to help the rest of them keep rhythm during their dances.These NS hunter gatherers live in the Xai Xai Hills close to the Namibian border. Their traditional way of life is fast disappearing.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. A masked dancer wearing coconut shell breasts performs at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Kenya. The Swahili elite, Wangwana, perform the traditional stick dance during Maulidi, celebration of Prophet Mohammed s birthday.
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A bushman,or San,collapses in a trance and is helped by members of his band during a sing-song round their campfire. These NS hunter gatherers live in the Xai Xai Hills close to the Namibian border. Their traditional way of life is fast disappearing.
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Kigali, Rwanda. A south African contemporary dancer performs at FESPAD Pan African dance festival.
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A Bushman,or San,mimics an ostrich as he sings and dances round a campfire. The rest if the band keeps rhythm to the noise of the rattles wound round the dancer's legs. These NS hunter gatherers live in the Xai Xai Hills close to the Namibian border. Their traditional way of life is fast disappearing.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. Masked dancers wearing the buffalo mask performs at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Virunga, Rwanda. Traditional Intore dancers perform at the foot of the Volcanoes National Park.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. A masked dancer leaps high in the air at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Ethiopian Orthodox priests perform the Dance of the Priests to celebrate Timkat, the churchs most important Holy Day. Ethiopia is Africas oldest Christian nation where more than half the population follows the Ethiopian Orthodox faith. During Timkat, priests stand in two rows, facing one another and sway gently as they chant. Attendants hold silk brocade umbrellas to shade them from the sun
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1960s 1970s AFRICAN AMERICAN COUPLE MAN WOMAN DANCING SHIRT RED TROUSERS SILVER DRESS AFRO HAIR STYLE BELLBOTTOMS LAUGHING
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Morocco,Fes. Maya performs Flamenco on the stage of the Bab Makina accompanied by Jose Luis Rodriguez.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. Masked dancers leap in the air at the Dogon village of Tereli which is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is performed at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Kigali, Rwanda. A contemporary Rwandan musician sings about emancipation at the FESPAD Pan African dance festival.
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Kenya,Masai Mara National Reserve. Children on a family safari visit a Maasai manyatta or village just outside the reserve.
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1970s BALLET DANCERS CAUCASIAN WOMAN ON POINT HISPANIC MAN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN POSED KNEELING WEARING TUTUS AND TIGHTS
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Morocco,Fes. Two whirling Dervishes perform during a concert at the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music. Members of the Al Kindi Ensemble perform the music.
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Figures of african dancers . Seamless Vector Illustration.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. Masked stilt dancers wearing coconut shells as breasts perform at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Masked ceremonial Dogon dancer near Sangha, Bandiagara escarpment, Dogon area, Mali, West Africa, Africa
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Nyangatom (Bumi) tribal dance ceremony, Omo River Valley, Ethiopia, Africa
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Morocco,Fes. Two whirling Dervishes perform during a concert at the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music. Members of the Al Kindi Ensemble perform the music.
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Dancing musician. Grunge background with African traditional patterns
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