Cultural Portraits and Processions

Images of traditional attire and communal gatherings, featuring women in vibrant dresses during a Good Friday event, set in a dynamic outdoor environment.

Tanganyika. Arusha. Masai girls and women at the wedding. 1936, Tanzania, Arusha

Tanganyika. Arusha. Masai girls and women at the wedding. 1936, Tanzania, Arusha

LIFE AND PASSION OF CHRIST (1905) -Original title: LA VIE ET LA PASSION DE JESUS CHRIST-, directed by FERDINAND ZECCA.

Snake-charmers in India, page 182, 1897., 1897. Features snake charmers and musical instruments from India, presented in halftone photomechanical prints

Description: Kamberi africa

Adjiki-Toffa, King of Porto-Novo, presiding over a council of ministers, Benin, photo by Numa Combes from L'Illustration, No 3407, June 13, 1908.

Africa. Delegation sent to England by King Muteesa I of Buganda in 1879. Composed of three diplomats, it was led by Phillip Seruwagi Namukadde and accompanied by English missionaries. The envoys were received in Windsor Castle by Queen Victoria. Photogravure by André & Sleigh. "La conquista de Africa" (The conquest of Africa), by Alfredo Opisso. Volume III. Published in Barcelona (Spain) by Molinas y Maza editores, 1911.

Two long lines of women process along a street lined with trees and buildings. The caption to a companion image describes the event as a Good Friday procession in Winneba.

Africa. Northern Uganda. Acholi musicians. Photogravure by André & Sleigh after a photograph. "La conquista de Africa" (The conquest of Africa), by Alfredo Opisso. Volume III. Published in Barcelona (Spain) by Molinas y Maza editores, 1911.

Indian snake charmers in India circa 1870

Around Kalgan, China a nomadic camp , 1912 - China - Stéphane Passet (French - Environs de Kalgan , Chine Un campement nomade). Woman, costume, ethnic minority, yurt, exists in high definition, group portrait, camp, home, belt, hairstyle , headgear, ephemeral architecture, man, Human beings, clothing, society, HD, housing , architecture, China, Mongolia Group of Mongols

Edward S. Curtis Native American Indians - Tewa Indians dancing in line formation circa 1905.

Indians: Arts and Crafts. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Location: Burma Date: 1903 burma

Engraving depicting an African Chief seated in State among his Headmen. Dated 19th Century

Description: Kanuri market africa

Africa, eritrea, sahel, gruppo di habab, 1910-20.

Lepers. 1898, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Sunday school. undated. Guinea

Description: Kanuri market africa

India - Famine Victims. Up to 10 million people died in Indian famine of 1899-1900. Date: circa 1900

Portrait of American Indians in non-urban scene

The Tai ethnicity refers collectively to the ethnic groups of southern China and Southeast Asia, stretching from Hainan to eastern India and from southern Sichuan to Laos, Thailand, and parts of Vietnam, which speak languages in the Tai family and share similar traditions and festivals, including the water festival. Despite never having a unified nation-state of their own, the peoples also have historically shared a vague idea of a 'Siam' nation, corrupted to Shan or Assam in some places. The majority of Tai Lu live around Xishuangbanna in Yunnan Province in southern China. Other Tai Lu villages can be found in Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and Burma.

Satawan. From the album: Views in the Pacific Islands photographic prints, black-and-white prints, albumen prints

Devil dance of Ceylon

Natal, South Africa: African chiefs at a Zulu wedding at Henley. Photograph by Agnes Henderson, Mrs G.G. Henderson, 1905.

Description: Kanuri market africa

Tanganyika. Arusha. Warusha women with trinkets and ornaments, close up. 1936, Tanzania, Arusha

Portrait of four unknown Rajkumar men from India with a shield and weapons; Rajkomaars. Rajpoot Tribe-Hindos. Old. .

Lodge Interior - Piegan. Edward S. Curtis (American, 1868 - 1952)

Description: Village scene at Kalo, with teacher and Christian church.-J.W. Lindt, Melb. Location: Kalo Kalo, Papua New Guinea papuanewguinea, australasia, australasiathroughalens

Description: Filani (Sokoto) africa

Albania - Paying homage to a dead fighter, lying on a stretcher in his traditional costume and surrounded by grieving relatives and comrades. Date: circa 1910s

Christmas and New Year's wishes with group portrait of Phongyis, Buddhist priests, Anonymous, 1870 - 1910 cabinet photograph Asia paper. cardboard albumen print monk(s), friar(s). anonymous historical persons portrayed in a group, in a group-portrait Asia

Tibetan men and women in traditional dress. Photograph, ca. 1900.

Benarès, Indes a group of Hindus going around the temples after the ablutions in the ganges , 1913-1914 - India, Pakistan - Stéphane Passet - (December 16 -January 29) (French - Bénarès , Indes Un groupe d' hindous faisant le tour des temples après les ablutions dans le Gange). Woman, temple, Hinduism, religious practice, exists in high definition, group portrait, nudity, flower, man, Human beings, religion, HD, Benarès January 30 - Hindu group going around the temples after the ablutions "Indies, Bénarès, Hindus returning from their ablutions

'Though small, Panama has been a sovereign state since 1821' , Indigenous peoples, Cuna Indians, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Description: Aladin Oyo (when Arsmo) africa

Group of fakirs, India, circa 1900

Leper settlement, Fianarantsoa, Madagascar: a group portrait of patients in white robes, with an elderly woman (missionary ); one patient holds up a blackboard bearing a bible verse (in Malagasy ). Photograph, 1890/1910.

Description: The Asantehene and the Queen mother of Ashanti, Coronation Day. Location: Ashanti africa

Description: Kanuri market africa

The Governor of the Province of Lang-Son in Northern Vietnam (Tonkin) with his son and servants/attendants behind. circa 1903

High caste Hindus of Bombay, India, circa 1922

Maori Ceremonial in N.Z. March 27, 1938. (Photo by The N.Z. Herald).

History of Africa. 19th century. Students of the Catholic mission of Boma. Engraving. El Congo y la Creacion del Estado Independiente de este nombre. Historia de los Trabajos y Exploraciones Verificados (The Congo and the Founding of its Free State. A Story of Work and Exploration), by Henry M. Stanley. Edited in Barcelona, ca.1890. Spain.

Inmates in front of their home Nocte tribe Lohit district Arunachal Pradesh India NO MR Copyright: xTxSatyan/DinodiaxPhotox

The British conquest of Burma began in 1824 in response to a Burmese attempt to invade India. By 1886, and after two further wars, Britain had incorporated the entire country into the British Raj. To stimulate trade and facilitate changes, the British brought in Indians and Chinese, who quickly displaced the Burmese in urban areas. To this day Rangoon and Mandalay have large ethnic Indian populations. Railways and schools were built, as well as a large number of prisons, including the infamous Insein Prison, then as now used for political prisoners. Burmese resentment was strong and was vented in violent riots that paralysed Rangoon on occasion all the way until the 1930s. Burma was administered as a province of British India until 1937 when it became a separate, self-governing colony. Burma finally gained independence from Britain on January 4, 1948.

Native Administration In The Northern Territories, Gold Coast -- Native rulers arrive from all areas of the Northern Territories to meet at the Court House, Bolgatanga, for "budget day". Umbrellas are African symbol of high birth. December 4, 1947. (Photo by Pictorial Press).;Native Administration In The Northern Territories, Gold Coast -- Native rulers arrive from all areas of the Northern Territories to meet at the Court House, Bolgatanga, for "budget day". Umbrellas are African symbol of high

Description: Jukun (Dampar) africa

The circumcision, Anonymous

Calcutta, India: inoculation of Indian children by a white doctor. Photograph, 1894.

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.

Beijing, China burial in a cereal field , 1913 - China - Stéphane Passet (French - Pékin , Chine Inhumation dans un champ de céréales). Funeral, religious practice, rural life, funeral rites, field, man, Society, religion, daily life, human beings

North African (Egyptian) Dervish seated. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth. Within the Islamic tradition such people are often known as Sufis, Sufi, people of the way or mystics and they come from every strata of society; here monetary considerations are inapplicable since the situation is that of a deep personal inner spiritual longing. There are in existence a number Sufi Orders many of which bear the name of a great sain

Placing hooks in the back of a fakir : not only is the process painful, but the wounds will fester and lead to further pain, apart from the discomfort Date: circa 1900

Information office and radio broadcaster Dutch New Guinea. An evangelical meeting of Hatammers in a small village outside of Ransiki. The "guru", an evangelist, with a student from the region as interpreter, tells the history of Paulus and Silas in prison using a Z.G. "Flanelbord". May 1958. New Guinea

Description: Bayin Filani Description: Maikirifi. Bayin Filani africa

Description: Suli Description: Aba africa

Dorfansicht auf Samoa, um 1880, digital verbesserte Reproduktion einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Historisch, genaues Datum unbekannt

Palestine is a name given to the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. The region is also known as the Land of Israel, the Holy Land and the Southern Levant. In 1832 Palestine was conquered by Muhammad Ali's Egypt, but in 1840 Britain intervened and returned control of the Levant to the Ottomans in return for further capitulations. The end of the 19th century saw the beginning of Zionist immigration and the Revival of the Hebrew language. The movement was publicly supported by Great Britain during World War I with the Balfour Declaration of 1917. The British captured Jerusalem a month later, and were formally awarded a mandate in 1922. In 1947, following World War II and the Holocaust, the British Government announced their desire to terminate the Mandate, and the United Nations General Assembly voted to partition the territory into a Jewish state and an Arab state. The Jewish leadership accepted the proposal but the Arab Higher Committee rejected it; a

Laundry, India, c1927-c1929. Artist: Unknown

Photo collection Government information service. New Guinea. undated. New Guinea

(Tanzania) Tanganyika. Arusha. Masai warriors with their gleaming spears at a wedding. 1936.

Malay Peninsula. Unknown maker

Derviche mendiant de la haute Égypte, orientalist photography, Hart, Ludovico, Albumen, 1860s, Egyptian dervish. 21 Derviche mendiant de la haute Égypte--printed paper label adhered to mount. Derviche mendiant--written on mount.

Description: Oba Ilorin africa

Aden - Yemen - Bedouin Dancers performing at a Fair at Sheikh Othman Date: circa 1930s

Lama Priest & Temples Religion. November 04, 1948. (Photo by L.N.A.).;Lama Priest & Temples Religion.

Burmans at their Devotion in the () Pagoda. Felice Beato (English, born Italy, 1832 - 1909)

The British conquest of Burma began in 1824 in response to a Burmese attempt to invade India. By 1886, and after two further wars, Britain had incorporated the entire country into the British Raj. To stimulate trade and facilitate changes, the British brought in Indians and Chinese, who quickly displaced the Burmese in urban areas. To this day Rangoon and Mandalay have large ethnic Indian populations. Railways and schools were built, as well as a large number of prisons, including the infamous Insein Prison, then as now used for political prisoners. Burmese resentment was strong and was vented in violent riots that paralysed Rangoon on occasion all the way until the 1930s. Burma was administered as a province of British India until 1937 when it became a separate, self-governing colony. Burma finally gained independence from Britain on January 4, 1948.

Elsevier photo collection. Corporate incineration Bali. Hindu priest leading cremation. 1946. Bali, Indonesia, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Known to the central Siamese as the Lao States at the turn of the 20th century, the northern region of what is now Thailand was an independent region known as the Lanna kingdom. The main city, Chiang Mai, was built in 1296 by King Mengrai. The city was abandoned in 1776 91 due to Burmese invasions, but became an acknowledged part of Siam around the same time. The north was linked to Bangkok only by river, a journey which could take some six months, until in 1922, a railway was completed which connected Bangkok and Chiang Mai.

Indian - Montana. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

On the left, Gichire, an elder and member of the Kiambu African Tribunal court, begins to cut the branches of the Migere Bush, traditionally used as the support for the Thenge Stone in ceremonies. On the right stands Mwaura, Six-feet-four inches in height and the Caliban of the piece. They form the team in the ceremony, Gichere, the fearsome and sacred brain, Mwaura, the executive and medium for the curse. December 11, 1952.;On the left, Gichire, an elder and member of the Kiambu African Tribuna

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

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

Bedouin are a part of a predominantly desert-dwelling Arabian ethnic group traditionally divided into tribes, or clans, known in Arabic as aasa'ir. The term 'Bedouin' derives from a plural form of the Arabic word badawi, as it is pronounced in colloquial dialects. The Arabic term badawi derives from the word badiyah, which means semiarid desert (as opposed to sahara', which means desert). Starting in the late nineteenth century, many Bedouin under British rule began to transit to a seminomadic life. In the 1950s and 1960s, large numbers of Bedouin throughout Midwest Asia started to leave the traditional, nomadic life to settle in the cities of Midwest Asia, especially as hot ranges have shrunk and populations have grown. For example, in Syria the Bedouin way of life effectively ended during a severe drought from 1958 to 1961, which forced many Bedouin to abandon herding for standard jobs. Similarly, governmental policies in Egypt and Israel, oil production in the Persian Gulf, as well

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), Indian politician and philosopher, spins yarn with a wheel as a protest against the British Government, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, year LVIII, n 11, March 15, 1931.

A Wandering Photographer in 1939 Pictured the closet at hand of Bishop Gsell's "Wives"-- some with children from marriages with in the mission. They were in Charge of a white nun. August 01, 1951.

Fine Specimen of Zulu Warrior. Unknown

Returning to Their Monastery - Burmese Priests after Begging Their Daily Food. Felice Beato (English, born Italy, 1832 - 1909)

T. Enami (Enami Nobukuni, 1859 - 1929) was the trade name of a celebrated Meiji period photographer. The T. of his trade name is thought to have stood for Toshi, though he never spelled it out on any personal or business document. Born in Edo (now Tokyo) during the Bakumatsu era, Enami was first a student of, and then an assistant to the well known photographer and collotypist, Ogawa Kazumasa. Enami relocated to Yokohama, and opened a studio on Benten-dori (Benten Street) in 1892. Just a few doors away from him was the studio of the already well known Tamamura Kozaburo. He and Enami would work together on at least three related projects over the years. Enami became quietly unique as the only photographer of that period known to work in all popular formats, including the production of large-format photographs compiled into what are commonly called 'Yokohama Albums'. Enami went on to become Japan's most prolific photographer of small-format images such as the stereoview and glass lantern

The newly crowned emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie, accompanied by his youngest son, carries the orb and sceptre after the coronation ceremony in Addis Ababa Date: 2 November 1930

Description: Filani (Mori) africa

Description: Kanuri africa

The late ex-king Cacobau of Fiji and his suite, historic image, 1883

Jim Thorpe (left) and Ann Ross meet with Native Americans to protest black and Mexican actors representing themselves as Native Americans in films, 1932

The Sundanese are an ethnic group native to the western part of the Indonesian island of Java. They number approximately 40 million, and are the second most populous of all the nation's ethnicities. The Sundanese are predominantly Muslim. In their own language, Sundanese, the group is referred to as Urang Sunda, and Suku Sunda or Orang Sunda in the national language, Indonesian. The Sundanese have traditionally been concentrated in the provinces of West Java, Banten, Jakarta, and the western part of Central Java. Sundanese migrants can also be found in Lampung and South Sumatra. The provinces of Central Java and East Java are home to the Javanese, Indonesia's largest ethnic group. Sundanese culture has a number of similarities with Javanese culture, however it differs by being more overtly Islamic, with less Hindu-Buddhist elements, and has a less rigid system of social hierarchy. The common identity that binds Sundanese together is their language and culture.

Saopha, Chaofa, or Sawbwa was a royal title used by the rulers of the Shan States of Myanmar (Burma). The word means 'king' in the Shan and Tai languages. In some ancient Chinese literature it was recorded as (pinyin: Zhao) for example Six Zhao and Nanzhao.

Northern Beluchs Types - Mountaineers of the Western Himalayas

Description: A Dervish at Masjid-i-Sulaiman. Description: Typical Lur tribesmaen, showing the curious felt coats commonly worn.

The Bru, or Brao, are an ethnic group living in Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. Nowadays there are few known Bru, if any, in Cambodia. They speak Bru, a Mon-Khmer language, which has several dialects. Their total population is estimated at 130,000. In Laos, most Bru live in eastern Savannakhet Province in the Sepone District, in the Isaan region. In Thailand, most Bru live in Sakon Nakhon Province, in the Isaan region of northeast Thailand. In Vietnam, most Bru live in the Quang Binh, Quang Tri, Dak Lak and Thua Thien-Hue provinces.

Dervishes and martyrs, Tehran, c1890. Artist: Gillot

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.

Buleleng was founded as a kingdom by Gusti Panji Sakti, who ruled c. 1660-c. 1700. He is commemorated as a heroic ancestor-figure who expanded the power of Buleleng to Blambangan on East Java. The kingdom was weakened during his successors, and fell under the suzerainty of the neighbouring Karangasem kingdom in the second half of the 18th century. It was headed by an autonomous branch of the Karangasem Dynasty in 1806-1849. The Dutch colonial power attacked Buleleng in 1846, 1848 and 1849, and defeated it on the last occasion. Buleleng was incorporated in the Dutch colonial system and lost its autonomy in 1882. In 1929 a descendant of Gusti Panji Sakti, the renowned scholar Gusti Putu Jelantik, was appointed regent by the Dutch. He died in 1944, during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia. His son, a well-known novelist, Anak Agung Nyoman Panji Tisna. In 1947, Anak Agung Pandji Tisna surrendered the throne to his younger brother, Anak Agung Ngurah Ketut Djelantik, known as Meester Dje

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.

Historic (Indians). undefined.

Indios del Darien - Rep. of Panama - Darien Indians - Rep. of Panama , Indigenous peoples, Choco Indians, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Indo Aryan settlement in ancient India Copyright: xKenxGraham/DinodiaxPhotox

Parsis funeral in India, painting by EE Wecks, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXIV, No 29, July 18, 1897.

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