Cultural Dances and Festivals

Black and white photographs capturing traditional dances and festivities across various cultural settings, highlighting performers, audiences, and ceremonial activities.

1930S Native Hula Music Dance Show Hawaii

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Bali. Two temple dance presses. April 1948. Bali, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Children on Hemis festival at Hemis Gompa Ladakh Jammu and Kashmir India Copyright: xAnilxDave/DinodiaxPhotox

1930S Native Hula Music Dance Show Hawaii

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Creation of cross-brigade in Tangerang. Mass in the open air on a sports field. February 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Scene during a festival, Burma, 1908. Artist: Stereo Travel Co

Asia. China. popular marriage.

Feast of Tabernacles, Sukkot, Jews of Bukhara 1898, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Young female dancers learning the skills of Balinese dance (1930s). Photography by the anthropologist and film director Nikola Drakulic. Bali is home to most of Indonesia's small Hindu minority with some 92% of the island's 4 million population adhering to Balinese Hinduism, while most of the remainder follow Islam. Bali is the largest tourist destination in Indonesia, and is renowned for its highly developed arts, including traditional and modern dance, sculpture, painting, leatherwork, metalwork and music.

Kloster Hemis

Mahatma Gandhi, while resting, talking to people in Noakhali East Bengal after the riots between Hindus and Muslims Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

04/30/1936. The Rocío pilgrimage. A halt and a salute.

Shriman Narayan, Om Agarwal, Mahatma Gandhi and others in Wardha, 1945 , India NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Crowds standing next to a river where Mahatma Gandhis ashes dissolve, Dhaka, February 1948 NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Information office and radio broadcaster Dutch New Guinea. A missionary as a vendumeester on the bazaar in Joka near Hollandia where every year with Pentecost through the shipment t.b.v. The indigenous population is held a public calling of all kinds of items. May 1958. New Guinea

Africa, ethiopia, group debri goes to a celebration, 1900-10.

Mahatma Gandhi with Jamnalal Bajaj and Rajkumari Amrit Kaur at Sevagram Ashram, 1942 NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Rangonn (Burma). Group formation of a Birmesen family

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Bali. Templeans. April 1948. Bali, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

12/31/1898. Francisco Silvela leaving mass.

Mahatma Gandhi being greeted by a Parsi woman and presented a coconut in front of his hut at Sevagram Ashram, Jan 1942 NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Mahatma Gandhi, Abha Gandhi with umbrella, JC Kumarappa r and others at Sevagram Ashram, 1938 NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Maori traditional hut with tribal priest (Shaman), 1899. New Zealand

Monkey juggler, India, 20th century. Artist: Unknown

Misc. - People - Aborigines - In Traditional Dress File 2. May 1, 1951.

The Royal Tomb of Korean King Wolseong of Silla : the Gwae-reung. Wolseong of Silla was the 38th to rule the Korean kingdom of Silla, from 785 to 798. From the time of Unified Silla (668 - 935)

Painting depicting a Japanese family awaiting their men to return

Elsevier photo collection. Bali. Funeral cremation. October 1930. Bali, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Varanasi (benares) and indien. Hinduverbrennung

Batavia (Jakarta), Indonesia. Javanese actresses (posing) in front of local audience and Hapag tourists on the occasion of a performance of Wayang Wong (shadow play without masks)

The stocks, instrument of torture that allows to punish mistakes, disobedience and resistance, town of La Laguna. Nariño Department, Colombia, South America. Journey through Equinoctial America 1875-1876 by Edward Francois Andre. Le Tour du Monde 1879

1930s NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN WOMAN HANGING CHILI PEPPERS TO DRY COCHITI PUEBLO NEW MEXICO USA

Jizo statues along the Kanmangafuchi abyss trail near Nikko, Japan, photograph from L'Illustration, No 3375, November 2, 1907.

Saluting the flag, circa 1914, Cook Islands, by George Crummer.

Nakhon Thom Angkor Wat, Cambodia. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1866.

04/30/1935. The Workers of the Farmhouses go out to the Brotherhoods to pray before the cart of simpecado.

Africa, eritrea, group of authorities Habab, 1910-20.

Natives at tribal gathering in Western Samoa, South Pacific

Mahatma Gandhi gives the money which was collected during his last birthday to Kanu Gandhi, 1939 NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Priest on Temple Gate Copyright: xJagdishxAgarwal/DinodiaxPhotox

Ancient Egyptian mummies, 1860. Mummies displayed outside a tomb at Thebes. Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. Photograph

Tibet, Hermit Kingdom -- The Heads of Police: before the Main Temple stand the two Proctors, chief keepers of the Peace at Sera Monastery. May 05, 1948. (Photo by Pictorial Press).

Mahatma Gandhi observing the examination of Parshure Shastri by Dr. Das at Sevagram Ashram, 1941 NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

The Chinese Emperor Receiving his Diplomatic Corps

Africa, Guinea Bissau, a former Portuguese Guinea, indigenous, 1930.

The Holodomor was a man-made famine in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1932 and 1933 that killed an estimated 2.5-7.5 million Ukrainians, with millions more counted in demographic estimates. It was part of the wider disaster, the Soviet famine of 1932-33, which affected the major grain-producing areas of the country. During the Holodomor millions of citizens of the Ukrainian SSR, the majority of whom were ethnic Ukrainians, died of starvation in a peacetime catastrophe unprecedented in the history of Ukraine.Since 2006, the Holodomor has been recognized by the independent Ukraine and many other countries as a genocide of the Ukrainian people carried out by the Soviet Union.

Elephanta, India. Shiva temple of rock caves. One of the entrances with tourists of Hapag on the open staircase with flanking lion sculptures

Nuku "festival"

At the turn of the 20th century, Thailand, or Siam as it was then known, was going through a period of major modernisation under successive kings, King Mongkut, Rama IV (r. 1851 68) and King Chulalongkorn, Rama V (r. 1868 1910). Punishments for crimes were often severe and the death penalty was frequently employed, although leniency through Buddhist ethics was often used to resolve minor felonies.

Mahatma Gandhi doing cleaning work at Maganwadi Wardha, 1936 , India NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Simao District, formerly known as Cuiyun District, is a township under the jurisdiction of Pu'er Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China. It is located near the Myanmar border.

Poll photo collection. Travel to Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles. A procession of schoolchildren who will do their first communion in the Roman Catholic Church of New Nicker, preceded by noisers with front prosecution and processie lanterns. 1947. New Nickerie, Suriname

Vintage photograph. Egyptian burial

Pope Pius XII, photographed during his daily walk around the Vatican gardens.

Tribal dance Ziro district headquarters Lower Subansiri Arunachal Pradesh India 1982 NO MR Copyright: xTxSatyan/DinodiaxPhotox

Possession by the spirit; A Mississippi baptismal service.. Photographs. 1926. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. African Americans , Folklore, African Americans , Mississippi, Exorcism

The Nyahuen or Hyanon are a Mon-Khmer ethnic group of about 5,000 persons who inhabit about 30 villages in Champasak province in southern Laos. The Nyahuen are strongly animist with spirits and shamans being consulted for virtually every decision. The Nyahon believe each person has seven different souls. They especially revere a spirit called 'Brrah'. Other spirits of nature include the spirit of trees, water, rice fields, thunder and mountains. Shamans, or spirit priests, conduct regular ceremonies where they make sacrifices and offer up prayers to protective spirits. Offended spirits are identified by a ritual involving rice and the organs of a chicken. Special ceremonies are held in the event of a natural disaster or epidemic.

Mother Teresa NO MR Copyright: xSajalxBose/DinodiaxPhotox

Varanasi (Benares), India. Combustion of a Hindu

The bloodstained dhoti dress Mahatma Gandhi wore at the time of assassination, 1948 Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Original caption: "Visit and blessing of reconstructed church - 8/29/37". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

The Javanese are an ethnic group native to the Indonesian island of Java. At approximately 100 million people (as of 2011), they form the largest ethnic group in Indonesia. They are predominantly located in the central to eastern parts of the island. There are also significant numbers of people of Javanese descent in most Provinces of Indonesia, Malaysia, Suriname, South Africa and the Netherlands. Today the majority of the Javanese people identify themselves as Muslims, with a minority identifying as Christians and Hindus, but because Javanese civilization has been influenced by more than a millennium of interactions between the native animism and the Indian HinduBuddhist culture, the influence is still visible in Javanese history, culture, traditions and art forms.

Vintage Photograph. Snake Charmer in Djema el Fna Square, Marakesh, Morocco.

In Honour Of Confucius (Sixth -- End Of Set) -- In the sunlit courtyard of the Chufu Temple, sixty-four monks perform the solemn "Feather" dance as a green-clad monk chants prayers in a sing-song voice in the altar. October 16, 1953. (Photo by United Press).

Mahatma Gandhi wearing a mudpack at Sevagram Ashram, Vardha, Maharashtra, India, Asia, 1941 Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

ethiopia, lalibela

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Bali. Temple dance. Dancer. April 1948. Bali, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Great East. Poppoa's procession? Women in traditional clothing. November 10, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

The Armenian Genocide refers to the deliberate and systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I. It was implemented through wholesale massacres and deportations, with the deportations consisting of forced marches under conditions designed to lead to the death of the deportees. The total number of resulting Armenian deaths is generally held to have been between one and one and a half million. Other ethnic groups were similarly attacked by the Ottoman Empire during this period, including Assyrians and Greeks, and some scholars consider those events to be part of the same policy of extermination. It is widely acknowledged to have been one of the first modern genocides, as scholars point to the systematic, organized manner in which the killings were carried out to eliminate the Armenians, and it is the second most-studied case of genocide after the Holocaust. The word genocide was coined in order to describe these events.

Barotse Women -- Women of the Barotse Chief's Court perform the Dance of Welcome, called the 'Limba'. It is a peculiar shuffling kind of dance to a rhythm provided by the Africa xylophone (Silimba) and drums made from gourds. It goes on for hours. In the foreground are two fine examples of the Court dress worn by the Barotse women. This was the dance that intrigued the former Secretary of State for the Colonies Mr. James Griffiths, on his recent visit to Barotseland. June 23, 1952. (Photo by Nig

Various types, etc. Refreshment of tea after the baptism in the Jordan 1900

In Tibet sticking the tongue out is considered a polite way of showing respect. The caption on this photograph explains: 'Sticking the tongue out as a Tibetan greeting began when Buddhists wanted people to know that they were not Bon-Po (pre-Buddhist religion) as they were supposed to have black tongues. Pink tongues were stuck out as proof of being Buddhist. The further the tongue out, the greater respect'.

Its An Old Custom -- The Simhast A Parvani Festival, held recently in India, is celebrated only once in every twelve years. Here is a Hindu bathing an idol in a sacred river. September 14, 1933.

The Stieng people (Vietnamese: Xtieng) are an ethnic group of Vietnam and Cambodia that speak a Bahnaric language of Mon-Khmer roots. Most Stieng live in Binh Duong Province and Dong Nai Province in southeastern Vietnam. In Cambodia, they are grouped under the heading 'Khmer Loeu', referring to non-Khmer ethnic groups, or Degar peoples. Nowadays, many Stieng have converted to Christianity, though the total population of the group is estimated at just 6,000.

Introducing West Africa -- The Sultan of Sokoto one of the native Empire in ia, rules within the framework of the British Constitution. Here he lays a foundation stone. September 11, 1951. (Photo by British Official Photograph).;Introducing West Africa -- The Sultan of Sokoto one of the native Empire in ia, rules within the framework of the British Constitution. Here he lays a foundation stone.

Jamnalal Bajaj and others at a cow blessing ceremony at Wardha, 1940, India NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Mahatma Gandhi at a prayer meeting in Harijan Colony, New Delhi, India, 1947 - MODEL RELEASE NOT AVAILABLE Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Skiopty icon with motifs from Granada.The image has been stored in cardboard labeled: Höstesan 1910. Granada 9. N: 15.

Waterweight Feast for Greek Catholic in Vladimir Wolinsky.

Anefo photo collection. Her Krishna Festival in Vondelpark. July 29, 1972. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Vondelpark

Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Jawaharlal Nehru at Khadi Pratishthan, Sodepur, 24 Parganas, Calcutta, 1946 , India NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Mandalay is the second-largest city and the last royal capital of Burma. Like most former (and present) capitals of Burma, Mandalay was founded on the wishes of the ruler of the day. On 13 February 1857, King Mindon founded a new royal capital at the foot of Mandalay Hill, ostensibly to fulfill a prophecy on the founding of a metropolis of Buddhism in that exact place on the occasion of the 2,400th jubilee of Buddhism.

Vintage Photograph. A brass merchant displaying their wares in Morocco.

Lord and Lady Curzon at Christ Church, Simla, India, 1903.Artist: Underwood & Underwood

American Indian records a record of tribal singing. Dated 1914

Varanasi (Benares), India. Saint man (Sadhu) sitting on a stone in front of temple entranceVaranasi (Benares), India. Saint man (Sadhu) sitting on a stone in front of temple entrance

Gis Of The 301St A.D.G., Kunming, China, Made This Chapel Out Of Various Parts Taken From A Curtiss P-40 Airplane Nicknamed 'Little Flower' (Originally Of The 'Assam Dragon' Squadron). A Blue Supply Parachute Was Used For A Sanitary Ceiling And Tabernacl

GANDHI HILANDO, COMO SIMBOLO DE LA LUCHA POR LA INDEPENDENCIA ECONOMICA DE LA INDIA, LA NO VIOLENCIA COMO UNA VIA POLITICA DE ACCION, 1939. Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi.

Land Dayaks Of Borneo Purification: A newly married couple being purified of harmful influences by the blood of a pig which has been slaughtered above their heads. This is part of a melodramatic spirit ceremony distinct from the ancestor cult. A newly-married couple being purified by the blood of a pig which has been killed above their heads. March 8, 1952. (Photo by W.R. Geddes, Camera Press).

Indian woman in saree standing near tree at Matheran Maharashtra India 1940 s Copyright: xDinodiaxPhotox

Emperor Bao Dai.Emperor Bao Dai of Indo-China, is seen in this recent picture, in full ritual dress as he passes through an arch leading to the imperial palace at hue for a religious ceremony. He is followed by the Vietnam Governor Pham Wan Giao. January 30, 1951. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

A large group of Hindu sadhus are seated outside a bamboo building. Local Indian men are standing in the background. The Sadhus are dressed traditionally with long dreadlocks, turbans, ritual face paint and lungis (loincloths).

Bare-Footed High Commissioner Joins in PrayersFootwear discarded in accordance with Muslim custom, His Excellency Habib I. Rahimtoola (foreground), Pakistan's High Commissioner in London, joins in thanksgiving prayers at Pakistan House, Lowndes Square, London, to-day (Monday) - third anniversary of the founding of Pakistan. August 14, 1950. (Photo by Reuterphoto).

Mahatma Gandhi in front of Adi Niwas at Sevagram Ashram, 1940 NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Calcutta scene at the peak of India's famine in late October 1943. Sacred cows and hungry human beings rummage in the same garbage pile for food.

Information office and radio broadcaster Dutch New Guinea. During the wedding ceremony in the church in Boeti, where Father Verschueren - is now not in Tourne-Khaki but in priest clothing - will connect two pairs of young marind in real life. October 1954. New Guinea

Where East meets West, circa 1930, by Eric Lee-Johnson.

Bai people live mostly in the provinces of Yunnan (Dali area), and in neighboring Guizhou (Bijie area) and Hunan (Sangzhi area) provinces. Of the 2 million Bai people, eighty percent live in concentrated communities in the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province.

Wooden Tent And Felt Blankets Of Kyrgyz Nomads. 1920-30

Anefo photo collection. Islamic party in the official residence of the high Commissioner of Indonesia, Dr. Sutanto Tirtoprjo, in Wassenaar. June 3, 1954. Wassenaar, South Holland

Liberia, West Africa - a 'Sinoe Devil' - a man in the ceremonial costume of the devil from the Sinoe Region of the country. Date: circa 1910s

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