-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
A young Pokot woman sings to celebrate the opening of a new pre primary school at Ngaini, a remote area of the Kerio Valley. Despite her youth, her jewellery denotes she is already married.
Rights-Managed
-
Pataxo Indian people at the Reserva Indigena da Jaqueira near Porto Seguro, Bahia, Brazil, South America
Rights-Managed
-
-
Thailand, Chiang Rai. Portrait of woman of Ahka tribe wearing traditional dress and headgear with silver coins (MR)
Rights-Managed
-
-
-
-
Himba woman making butter in a dried pumpkin, Kaokoveld, Namibia, Africa
Rights-Managed
-
-
A pretty young Turkana girl has already had the flesh below her lower lip pierced in readiness for a brass ornament after her marriage. The rims of her ears have also been pierced and the holes kept open with small wooden sticks.
Rights-Managed
-
-
-
Back view of lady wearing colorful dress, carrying basket with grass brushes on her head to market, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkino Faso
Rights-Managed
-
An Afar girl has tribal scarification on her cheeks. Scarification is practiced in only a few sections of her tribe. Proud and fiercely independent,the nomadic Afar people live in the low-lying deserts of Eastern Ethiopia.
Rights-Managed
-
-
A Samburu woman sews a leather cloak for her younger brother. For several weeks before a boy is circumcised,he must wear a charcoal-blackened cloak,which is made from three goatskins.
Rights-Managed
-
-
Close-up of woman's legs and feet, sitting on decorated round henhouse with eggs, Tiebele, Burkina Faso
Rights-Managed
-
Portrait of Himba woman, showing hairstyle of Himba women, Kaokoveld, Namibia, Africa
Rights-Managed
-
-
-
-
Myanmar, Chin State, Kempetlet. Chin woman with traditional facial tattoo, holding her baby boy and smoking pipe. (MR) (PR)
Rights-Managed
-
-
Pataxo Indian people at the Reserva Indigena da Jaqueira near Porto Seguro, Bahia, Brazil, South America
Rights-Managed
-
-
Mother holding child in arms while nursing, black and yellow patterns, Gaoua, Poni Province, Burkina Faso
Rights-Managed
-
A Turkana girl in all her finery. Among the Turkana,cicatrization is a common form of beautification. She wears a crucifix given to her by a missionary; they are popular ornaments despite not necessarily being associated with Christianity.
Rights-Managed
-
A pretty Borana girl at Mega in southern Ethiopia wears brightly coloured cotton cloth and numerous strings of beads. The pastoral Borana live either side of the southern Ethiopian/northern Kenya border and form a large and important group of the Oromo-speaking cluster of tribes.
Rights-Managed
-
Myanmar, Burma, Naga Hills. A pretty Naga girl celebrating the Naga New Year Festival in Leshi village.
Rights-Managed
-
A young Turkana girl adorned with necklaces of a style the Southern Turkana prefer to wear.
Rights-Managed
-
A young Dassanech girl wears a leather skirt,metal bracelets and amulets and layers of bead necklaces. 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.
Rights-Managed
-
-
A Dassanech girl braids her sister's hair at her village in the Omo Delta. 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.
Rights-Managed
-
Colourfully dressed and face painted local tribes celebrating the traditional Sing Sing in the Highlands, Papua New Guinea, Pacific
Rights-Managed
-
-
Two Turkana girls set off to fetch water from a nearby Waterhole. Their water containers are made of wood by the women of the tribe. Their 'V' shaped aprons are made of goatskin and have been edged with hundreds and hundreds of round discs fashioned out of ostrich eggshells.
Rights-Managed
-
A Turkana woman sitting in the doorway of her hut. Her heavy mporro braided necklace identifies her as a married woman. Typical of her tribe,she wears many layers of bead necklaces and a beaded headband.
Rights-Managed
-
Thailand, Chiang Rai. Portrait of woman of Padaung (long neck) ethnicity (MR)
Rights-Managed
-
-
An attractive girl from the Kediyo tribe carries a large,beautifully made umbrella. Its wooden frame is covered with the dried leaves of ensete,the false banana plant (seen growing in the background). Widely cultivated in southern Ethiopia,ensete roots and stems,which are rich in carbohydrates,are either cooked and eaten as a porridge or made into bread.
Rights-Managed
-
USA, Idaho, Willow Abrahamson, Native Woman from the Lemhi Shoshone tribe. MR 0562
Rights-Managed
-
A young married Pokot woman wearing the traditional beaded ornaments of her tribe which denote her married status. The Pokot are pastoralists speaking a Southern Nilotic language.
Rights-Managed
-
A Giriama girl from Kenya's Coast Province carrying a gourd full of water on her head. Her small skirt is made from strips of printed cotton material.
Rights-Managed
-
An Afar girl with braided hair has very noticeable scarification on her cheeks. Scarification is practiced in only a few sections of her tribe. Proud and fiercely independent,the nomadic Afar people live in the low-lying deserts of Eastern Ethiopia.
Rights-Managed
-
Thailand, Chiang Rai. Portrait of woman of Ahka tribe wearing traditional dress and headgear with silver coins (MR)
Rights-Managed
-
A striking old Pokot woman wearing the traditional beaded ornaments of her tribe which denote her married status. The Pokot are pastoralists speaking a Southern Nilotic language.
Rights-Managed
-
Pataxo Indian people at the Reserva Indigena da Jaqueira near Porto Seguro, Bahia, Brazil, South America
Rights-Managed
-
Maasai girls gather to celebrate a wedding. Their broad beaded necklaces with predominantly white glass beads mark then as Kisongo Maasai,the largest clan group of the tribe which lives either side of the Kenya-Tanzania border.
Rights-Managed
-
During a Ngetunogh ceremony, the mother of a Pokot initiate sings and dances holding high the cowhorn container she used to smear fat over the masks of her son and other boys as a blessing.
Rights-Managed
-
-
Myanmar,Burma,Lake Inle. A Pa-O woman in traditional attire. Smoking local cheroots is widespread among women.
Rights-Managed
-
Traditional lifestyle of families on courtyards outside of homes, with modern little bike, Tiebele, Burkina Faso
Rights-Managed
-
Pataxo Indian people at the Reserva Indigena da Jaqueira near Porto Seguro, Bahia, Brazil, South America
Rights-Managed
-
Colourfully dressed and face painted child of a local tribe celebrating the traditional Sing Sing in the Highlands, Papua New Guinea, Pacific
Rights-Managed
-
Tribal women and girls collecting water from a well in the desert near Jaisalmer, State of Rajasthan, India
Rights-Managed
-
-
A young Dassanech girl wears a leather skirt,metal bracelets and amulets and layers of bead necklaces. A long leather strap decorated with cowrie shells hangs down her back. 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.
Rights-Managed
-
-
A young Datoga man tends his family's livestock on the plains east of Lake Manyara in Northern Tanzania.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..
Rights-Managed
-
Pataxo Indian woman making food at the Reserva Indigena da Jaqueira near Porto Seguro, Bahia, Brazil, South America
Rights-Managed
-
A Maasai girl in traditional attire. The predominant white colour of her beadwork and the circular scar on her cheek denote that she is from the Kisongo section of the Maasai,the largest clan group,which lives either side of the border in Kenya and Tanzania.
Rights-Managed
-
Colourfully dressed and face painted local tribes celebrating the traditional Sing Sing in the Highlands, Papua New Guinea, Pacific
Rights-Managed
-
-
-
-
Samburu girls are given strings of beads by their fathers when they are still young. As soon as they are old enough to have lovers from the warrior age set, they regularly receive gifts from them.Over a period of years, their necklaces can smother them up to their necks.
Rights-Managed
-
Africa, Kenya, Narok County, Masai Mara. Masai men and women dancing at their homestead.
Rights-Managed
-
-
A Karo woman wears an elaborate headdress made from the wing-cases of beetles and a cape of calf skin fringed with cowrie shells. A small Omotic tribe related to the Hamar,who live along the banks of the Omo River in southwestern Ethiopia,the Karo are renowned for their elaborate body painting using white chalk,crushed rock and other natural pigments.
Rights-Managed
-
A young Afar girl at Filwoha in the Awash National Park. Filwoha in the Afar language means 'hot water'. The beautiful springs are surrounded by doum palms and rise from deep underground at about 96.8 degrees F.
Rights-Managed
-
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.
Rights-Managed
-
A Samburu woman resplendent in her beaded necklaces and numerous bracelets makes best use of a large rainwater pond to wash herself. Water is scarce in much of Samburuland.
Rights-Managed
-
A Turkana woman makes the final ties to the dome-shaped framework of her home. In wet weather,hides will be laid on top and secured with leather thongs.
Rights-Managed
-
In the early morning, a Pokot woman milks her familys goats in the stock pen of her husbands settlement. The Pokot are pastoralists speaking a Southern Nilotic language.
Rights-Managed
-
-
-
A Maasai woman wearing a very fine beaded necklace. The predominant white colour of her glass beadwork marks her as a Kisingo Maasai,the largest clan group of her tribe living either side of the Kenya-Tanzania border.
Rights-Managed
-
During Samburu wedding celebrations,married women congregate apart from the warriors and young girls to sing in praise of the couple and to dance.
Rights-Managed
-
A Karo woman sits with child. A small Omotic tribe related to the Hamar,who live along the banks of the Omo River in southwestern Ethiopia,the Karo are renowned for their elaborate body painting using white chalk,crushed rock and other natural pigments. Typically for a Karo woman,the mother has ochred her hair in tight ringlets and has a ring through her bottom lip.
Rights-Managed
-
Two Giriama girls pound corn outside their home using a large wooden mortar and pestles. Their small skirts are made from strips of printed cotton material - a traditional dress of Giriama women and children.
Rights-Managed
-
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.
Rights-Managed
