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Clothes stalls in the souks of the old Medina of Marrakech, Morocco, North Africa, Africa
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Kenya,Masai Mara National Reserve. Portrait of a Maasai woman in traditional costume.
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Africa,Kenya,Kajiado District,Ol doinyo Orok. A Maasai elder blesses a warrior by smearing the fat of a ceremonial ox on his face during an Eunoto ceremony when the warriors become junior elders and thenceforth are permitted to marry.
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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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Morocco,Fes. Belen Maya performs Flamenco on the stage of the Bab Makina during the Fes Festival of Sacred World Music.
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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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Ethiopian Christmas day celebrations (Genna),Bet Maryam Church,Lalibela,Ethiopia. Holy men carry Axunite hand crosses. Cloths are used when holding these,to keep them clean. Colourful umbrellas are also an important part fo the religious symbolism employed in Ethiopia.
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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,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 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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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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A local woman steps out into the whitewashed streets of the Rif Mountains town of Chefchaouen. The distinctive white and blue colour scheme was first introduced by Jewish refugees fleeing Spain in the 15th century.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. The piercing eyes of a masked dancer wearing the fifteen-foot-high Sirige mask 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 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,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 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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Morocco,Fes. Members of the Tarti Women's Ensemble from Mali (5 women and 4 men) play their traditional Tinde drums in the Dar Tazi during the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music.
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A Samburu bride waits pensively outside her new home until she is enticed in with promises of cattle.Her wedding gown is made of three goatskins, which are well oiled and covered in red ochre.She carries on her back a gourd full of milk and a small wooden jar containing butter.She now wears the mporro necklace of married women.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. Masked stilt dancers wearing coconut shells as breasts rest on a high wall 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 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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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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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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Morocco,Fes. Two dervishes wearing the traditional 'tombstone' hats,wait to perform during the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music.
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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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Morocco,Fes. The Hamadchas Brotherhood with Frederic Calmes perform at the Dar Tazi during the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music.
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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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Morocco,Fes. Sheikh Hamza Shakour performs on the Bab Makina stage during the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music.
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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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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. Masked dancers wearing the fifteen-foot-high Sirige mask and stilt dancers perform 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 staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Samburu women are responsible for collecting firewood and carrying it to their homes. Supported by leather straps over their foreheads,the loads they carry would make most strong men groan under the weight Fire is a potent symbol of life; the fire in the hearth of a Samburu house must never be allowed to die out.
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Morocco,Fes. Ni Putu Putri Setyari performs a dance in the Kebyar musical style on the Bab Makina stage during the Festival of World Sacred Music.
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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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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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Shoppers on the busy Rue as-Siaghin,the main shopping street in the old medina of Tangier.
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A pilgrim emerges from prayers at a traditional mud mosque near Djenne in Mali. Andrew Watson
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Morocco,Fes. One of the women in The Tartit Women's Ensemble from Mali performs in the Dar Tazi during the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music.
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Morocco,Fes. The group Panti Pusaka Budaya from Indonesia perform the Dance of the Feminine Court on the stage of the Bab Makina in Fes during the Festival of World Sacred Music. Dancers: Ni Wayang Eka Rahmayuni,Ni Kadek Yuni Warnaningsih,Ni Putu Putri Setyari.
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Morocco,Fes. Three Qawwals from the Faiz Ali Faiz ensemble perform an encore with the arch of the Bab Makina behind them during the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music.
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Morocco,Fes. The Hadhra concert during the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music.
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Morocco,Fes. Faiz Ali Faiz performs Qawwali at the Dar Tazi during the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music.
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Morocco,Fes. Jalledine Julien Weiss and his Al Kindi Ensemble,with Sheikh Hamza Shakour perform on the Bab Makina stage during the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music.
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Mauritanian women shrouded in melafas are silhouetted against the afternoon sun at the Plage des Pecheurs (Fishermens Beach) near Nouakchott.
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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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Women and Girls Dressed in White Walking to Church, Soatanana, Madagascar
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Morocco,Fes. Belen Maya performs Flamenco on the stage of the Bab Makina during the Fes Festival of Sacred World Music.
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Two women from the NIIS hunter gatherer band talk together.The older woman is wearing a beautifully decorated leather cape.They live in the harsh environment of a vast expanse of flat sand and bush scrub country straddling the Namibia Botswana border.
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Hamer lady wearing traditional goat skin dress decorated with cowie shells, carrying kalash on her way to market, Dombo village, Turmi, Lower Omo valley, Ethiopia, Africa
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Portrait of an African American woman wearing traditional African clothing and holding a shekere in front of a patterned wall. Vertical format.
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A woman belonging to the NIIS hunter gatherer band wears a beautifully decorated leather cape.The NIIS live in the harsh environment of a vast expanse of flat sand and bush scrub country straddling the Namibia-Botswana border.
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Portrait of an African American woman wearing traditional African clothing in front of a patterned wall. Vertical format.
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Portrait of an African American man wearing traditional African clothing, in front of a patterned wall and looking at the camera. Vertical format.
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Portrait of an African American man wearing traditional African clothing, in front of a patterned wall and looking at the camera. Vertical format.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. A masked dancer wearing the fifteen-foot-high Sirige mask gyrates 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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Portrait of African Woman Wearing Traditional Clothing, Soweto, Gauteng, South Africa
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Morocco,Fes. A whirling Dervishe performs on the stage at the Bab Makina during a concert at the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music. Members of the Al Kindi Ensemble perform the music.
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Portrait of an African American woman wearing traditional African clothing and closing her eyes in front of a patterned wall. Vertical format.
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Close-up portrait of an African American woman wearing traditional African clothing in front of a patterned wall. Vertical format.
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Portrait of an African American woman wearing traditional African clothing in front of a patterned wall and holding her hands in a prayer position. Vertical format.
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Portrait of an African American woman wearing traditional African clothing and holding a shekere in front of a patterned wall. Vertical format.
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Portrait of an African American woman wearing traditional African clothing in front of a patterned wall and holding her hands in a prayer position. Vertical format.
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Close-up portrait of a smiling African American woman wearing traditional African clothing in front of a patterned wall. Vertical format.
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Profile portrait of an African American man wearing traditional African clothing, in front of a patterned wall. Vertical format.
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Portrait of an African American woman wearing traditional African clothing in front of a patterned wall. Vertical format.
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