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Historical photographs of traditional attire and cultural practices from various regions, capturing the essence and diversity of ancient cultures.

mahatma gandhi 1927 MODEL RELEASE NOT AVAILABLE Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox
mahatma gandhi 1927 MODEL RELEASE NOT AVAILABLE Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox
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1213 Innsbruck, Hofkirche. .
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Veiled bride, South Serbia, 1936. Artist: Unknown
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Description: Gilbertese Dancers. Location: Kiribati
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Is he yours - this friend of mine , Sculpture, Jesus Christ. Jack Miller Collection
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Supayalat (13 December 1859 - 24 November 1925) was the last queen of Burma who reigned in Mandalay (1878-1885), born to King Mindon Min and Queen of Alenandaw. Their reign lasted just seven years when Thibaw Min was defeated in the Third Anglo-Burmese War and forced to abdicate by the British in 1885. On 25 November 1885 they were taken away in a covered carriage, leaving Mandalay Palace by the southern gate of the walled city along the streets lined by British soldiers and their wailing subjects, to the River Irrawaddy where a steamboat awaited. Thibaw was 27 and Supayalat 26. After years of exile in India, Supayalat returned to Rangoon in 1919. She died six years later, in 1925 - shortly before her 66th birthday. Although the colonial government declared the day of her funeral a national holiday, the royal family's request for her to be buried in Mandalay was also refused. Her funeral was, however, held with pomp and ceremony as befitted a Burmese queen. Supayalat lies buried at the
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Mission San Xavier del Bac Tucson Arizona, USA
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Mother holding her child in hand on Hemis festival at Hemis Gompa Ladakh ; Jammu and Kashmir ; India
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Shköder, Albania an Albanian Mirditis belonging to the Catholic Rite , 1913 - Balkans, Italy - Jean Brunhes and Auguste Léon - (September - October 23) (French - Shköder , Albanie Un mirdite albanais appartenant au rite catholique). Costume, Christianity, exists in high definition, portrait, man, Clothing, religion, HD, human beings, Albania, Scotari, an Albanian Mirditis belonging to the Catholic Rite
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Ethiopia, Lalibela, Na'Akuto La'Ab church
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Anefo photo collection. Christmas game in the big or St. Bavo church in Haarlem. December 17, 1945. Haarlem, Noord-Holland
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Model of a Funeral Boat with Figures symbolizing Isis and Nephthys. The Egyptianfunerary boat is a typical tomb offering and symbolizes the transport of the dead person or their soul, from life to the afterlife. Sister ofIsisand protector of Osiris,Nephthysis a protective goddess who symbolizes the death experience, just asIsisrepresented the birth experience.Nephthyswas known in some ancient Egyptian temple theologies and cosmologies as the 'Helpful Goddess' or the 'Excellent Goddess'.
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Bolo-Pasha case: Monseigneur Bolo SEM (1863-1934). "Bolo-Pasha case: Monseigneur Bolo". Lithograph, 1918.
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Blowing his trumpet. . .made from a human thigh bome -- One doesn't usually connect trumpets with human thigh bones but from the interior of mysterious Tibet comes this picture of a Red sect llama actually playing a human thigh bone trumpet. This gruesome exploitation of human remain is common on the roof of the world, where event the bones of Saints are ground into power moistened and modelled into miniatures of the Lord Buddha. September 01, 1955. (Photo by Paul Popper, Paul Popper Ltd.).
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CHENNAI, INDIA - SEPTEMBER 7: Indian traditional dance drama Kathakali preformance on September 7, 2009 in Chennai, India. Female character
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Emperor Gojong of the Korean Empire Gojong (8 September 1852 - 21 January 1919), was the last king of Joseon and the first Emperor of Korea
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Wedding procession, Peking. Wedding procession, Peking
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Emperor's Daughter Pleads Her Cause At Queen's Hall London -- Princess Tsahai addressing the meeting.Princess Tsahai, the daughter of the Emperor of Abyssinia, yesterday evening addressed 2,000 members of the Women's Peace Crusade at a meeting at the Queen's Hall, called to protest against the treatment of Abyssinia by the League of Nations. June 16, 1936. (Photo by Keystone).
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Two Costumed Performers, Hemis Festival, Leh, Ladakh, India
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Photograph showing a large silver-gilt table-centre, decorated with precious stones, of the Lucia-bride; the central figure in the Swedish celebrations of the festival of St. Lucia. This ornament had been made by the Berlin Technical Academy for Hermann Goering and was found in his hoard by Allied soldiers at the end of the Second World War. Date: 1945
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Japan: Contemplative Buddha Shaka image, wood, Muroji, Nara, Ken Domon (1909 - 1990), c. 1943
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Frankincense has been traded on the Arabian Peninsula and in North Africa for more than 5000 years. A mural depicting sacks of frankincense traded from the Land of Punt adorns the walls of the temple of ancient Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut, who died in 1458 BCE. The Incense trade route or the Incense Road of Antiquity comprised a network of major ancient trading routes linking the Mediterranean world with Eastern sources of incense (and spices), stretching from Mediterranean ports across the Levant and Egypt through Arabia to India. The incense trade flourished from South Arabia to the Mediterranean between roughly the 3rd century BCE to the 2nd century CE. The Incense Route served as a channel for trading of goods such as Arabian frankincense and myrrh; Indian spices, ebony, silk and fine textiles; and East African rare woods, feathers, animal skins and gold.
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Mother and baby, Rabaris of thunda wadh in kutch district, Gujarat, India NO MR Copyright: xTxSatyan/DinodiaxPhotox
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The 'Mazuza' being touched by Yemenite Rabbi when passing through the doorway. 1934
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Monk at She Sha Shan Monastery. Monk at She Sha Shan Monastery
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01/01/1964. Villager on the pilgrimage to the Porch of Glory.
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Emperor Duy Tan (Nguyen Phuc Venh San, 14 August 1899 25 December 1945), was a child Emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty and reigned for nine years between 1907 and 1916. His name was Prince Nguyen Phuc Venh San and was son of the Thanh Thai Emperor. Because of his opposition to French rule and his erratic, depraved actions (which some speculate were feigned to shield his opposition from the French) Thanh Thai was declared insane and exiled to Vung Tau in 1907. The French decided to pass the throne to his son Nguyen Phuc Venh San, who was only seven years old, because they thought someone so young would be easily influenced and controlled, and could be raised to be pro-French. This proved to be a big mistake on the part of the French. Nguyen Phuc Venh San was enthroned with the reign name of Duy Tan, meaning 'friend of reform' and in time would prove unwilling to live up to this name. As he became older he noticed that, even though he was treated as the Emperor, it was the colonial authoriti
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Tonkin, Indochina a edict devoted to a country genius , Léon Busy in Indochina (French - Tonkin , Indochine Un édicule consacré à un génie champêtre). Woman, costume, offering, portrait, altar, supernatural, religious or votive inscription, hairstyle , headgear, Human beings, clothing, registration , information, Indochina, Tonkin, the same with a young girl in the foreground
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1960s MOROCCAN BERBER WOMAN WEARING COSTUME OF THE MIDDLE ATLAS PEOPLE NATIVE DRESS LOCAL COLOR
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La pintora mexicana Frida Kahlo.
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Woman of Nazareth (Madonna) | Library of Congress
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Photograph of the corpse of Grigori Rasputin. Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (1869-1916) a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy-man, who had great influence in late Imperial Russia.
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Sabbath shofar being blown, Askenazim, Ashkenazi Jew. 1934, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine
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The earliest description of the use of opium as a recreational drug in China comes from Xu Boling, who wrote in 1483 that opium was mainly used to aid masculinity, strengthen sperm and regain vigor’, and that it enhances the art of alchemists, sex and court ladies’. He described an expedition sent by the Chenghua Emperor in 1483 to procure opium for a price equal to that of gold’ in Hainan, Fujian, Zhejiang, Sichuan and Shaanxi where it is close to Xiyu. A century later, Li Shizhen listed standard medical uses of opium in his renowned Compendium of Materia Medica (1578), but also wrote that lay people use it for the art of sex’, in particular the ability to arrest seminal emission’. This association of opium with sex continued in China until the twentieth century. Opium smoking began as a privilege of the elite and remained a great luxury into the early 19th century, but by 1861, Wang Tao wrote that opium was used by rich peasants, and that even a small village without a rice stor
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Photo Shows : Christ, as played by the priest in the film, " Behold the Man".London: A priest, Father Charles P. Carr, will be the first to portray the face of Christ on the screen in this country. British film censors have given permission. The concession has been made for the film made by amateur actors, " Behold the Man."The film was made at Twickenham studios, and was produced and directed by Walter Rilla. It has no dialogue, but a commentary is given.The film ends with the Crucifixation. But in the scene only the foot of the Cross is visible. Christ's agony is reflected in the faces of the watching crowd. September 20, 1951.
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The Sister-Ships Launched Rice And Roses At Ceremony -- Mr. M.A. Master christening the S.S. Sabarmati with a Coconut at the launching ceremony today. Two sister-ships for the Bombay Steam Navigation Company, the S.S. Sarasvati, and the S.S. Sabarmati, were launched at Belfast to-day (tues) inside half an hour. Each vessel was marked on the side with a swastika, coconuts were broken on the bows and Rose petals, rice and water were sprinkled to bless the ships. October 19, 1948. (Photo by Reuterphoto).
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In Korea the drumming of traditional ironing sticks was traditionally considered a joyful sound, a symbol of a secure home life. Two women knelt on the floor, facing each other across a smoothing stone or tatumi-tol, a pangmangi club in each hand, beating out a rhythm on the cloth. A Korean tatumi-tol granite or marble block was a valued family possession, perhaps with carved decoration, especially on the underside, so the design was visible when it was stored upside down to protect the smooth top. Ironing with pangmangi clubs requires skillful co-ordination and partnership.
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Papier-maches of Chaing Kai-Shek and Sung Mei-ling, Chaing's wife, were displayed in the procession and then they were burnt down in a fire. October 31, 1938.
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Anefo photo collection. Christmas game in the big or St. Bavo church in Haarlem. December 17, 1945. Haarlem, Noord-Holland
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Two bodyguards of Muhammad Yaqub Beg, Amir of Kashgar 1867-77. They are probably ethnic Uzbeks from Khokand or Andijan, but may also be local Uighurs.
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China: Mongolian lama and acolyte, Thomas Child (1841-1898), c. 1880
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Tenzin Gyatso before being made the Dalai Lama, 1940
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Photograph of Pope John XXIII (1881-1963) born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, bestowing his apostolic blessing on the a crowd outside of the Basilica. Dated 20th Century
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Peter denies Jesus, 1922. Andreas Lang as St Peter in the Oberammergau Passion Play. The play is performed every 10 years, on open-air stages, by the inhabitants of the village of Oberammergau in Bavaria, Germany. First staged in 1634, the play tells the story of Jesus' passion, culminating in his crucifixion. The event has become a tourist attraction, with audiences coming from all over the world. Official postcard of the 1922 Oberammergau Passion Play. F. Bruckmann, Munich, Germany, 1922
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Anefo photo collection. Christmas game in the big or St. Bavo church in Haarlem. December 17, 1945. Haarlem, Noord-Holland
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Vintage photograph. Altar boy singing behind pointed arch opening with flowers in front
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Asia, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Centre region, Hue, Imperial City, reproduction of an old photography, the last Emperor
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Jewish beterin.
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The Ming Dynasty Tombs ( Míng shísān líng; lit. Thirteen Tombs of the Ming Dynasty) are located some 50 kilometers due north of Beijing. The site was chosen by the third Ming Dynasty emperor Yongle (1402-1424), who moved the capital of China from Nanjing to the present location of Beijing. Yongle is credited with envisioning the layout of the ancient city of Beijing as well as a number of landmarks and monuments located therein. After the construction of the Imperial Palace (the Forbidden City) in 1420, the Yongle Emperor selected his burial site and created his own mausoleum. The Ming tombs of the 13 emperors of the Ming Dynasty were located on the southern slope of Tianshou Mountain (originally Mount Huangtu).
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Sanctuary of Fatima. Portugal. 70's.
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Gordon Heath (***** Audrey Hepburn (Sister Luke) in a Congo marketplace scene ***** "The Nun's Story, a Fred Zinnemann Production for Warner Bros. January 16, 1950.
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03/17/1999. Floral offering to the Virgin of the Forsaken.
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Praying for a miracle
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A smiling young pregnant woman standing next to a statue of Budda with her hands arms raised.
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CAPILLA ARDIENTE DE FRANCO-ATAUD CON CADAVER DENTRO. Location: PALACIO REAL-INTERIOR. MADRID. SPAIN. FRANCISCO FRANCO BAHAMONDE (1892-1975).
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Shivaram Indian dancer. July 22, 1947.