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Cultural Practices of Dogon Community

Images depict the daily lives and crafts of the Dogon people, showcasing traditional pottery-making and divination practices.

Reading of the tables of the divination of the fox in Dogon

Lalibela, pilgrims in front of the area of the rock-hewn churches, Ethiopia, Africa

A man making copper gopura kalasam at Darasuram near Kumbakonam, Thanjavur District, Tamil Nadu, South India, India, Asia

Turmi market, Ethiopia, Africa

Musicians, Dauji, Uttar Pradesh, India, Asia

PEREGRINOS EN LA MEZQUITA DE TALAK SANGAY. Location: EXTERIOR. MINDANAO. PHILIPPINES.

Sculptor adding hands to goddess Durga deities, made of Hooghly river clay over straw base in Kumartuli potters quarter, Kolkata (Calcutta), West Beng...

Macalle, Ethiopia, A priest in the old Abreha Atsbeha rock church

Muslim reading Koranic scriptures in the great mosque in Touba, Senegal

Mali, Near Timbuktu, Tuareg Camp In Harmattan Dust Storm, Traditional Dances

Emaciation, disease and famine, in Korea, at the end of the Joseon era 1910

Oman, Al-Shuwaymiyah, bedu woman, oasis

Africa, West Africa, Benin, Ouidah, Temple of the Pythons. Voodoo offerings in courtyard at temple of the pythons in Ouidah.

Offering to Exu, one of the many Orixas present in Umbanda and Candomble in Brazil Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerias, Brazil, South America

Ethiopia: Tigray Region, Axum, grain market, umbrellas being used as shade from the sun (Editorial Usage Only)

Muslim boy in Africa.

Funeral of a woman who died of HIV/AIDS, body wrapped in sheets, Garoua, Cameroon, Africa

India, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Zanskar, Tsarap Valley Phugtal. A monk stands in his simple lodgings at Phugtal Gompa, or Monastery, which is one of the remotest in Zanskar and Ladakh.

During every Samburu ceremony, cattle are slaughtered and meat is roasted over wood fires. Warriors will never eat meat in the presence of married women.

pandharpur yatra, pilgrims are resting, pandharpur, maharashtra, india Copyright: xRajeshxVora/DinodiaxPhotox

Master carver inside a Maprik Mens house; West Sepik, Papua New Guinea

Lord Balaji Devotee at Tirumalai, Andhra Pradesh, India Copyright: xMxAmirtham/DinodiaxPhotox

Pilgrims lining to collect water from the Jordan river spring in Bieta Ghiorghis (Saint George's House) church in Lalibela

Children selling water during Zikr near Sheikh Hamed al-Nil tomb in Omdurman, Sudan.

ethiopia, omo valley, omorate

Emir of Daura walking around his palace, Fadar Daurama Emir's palace, Daura Emirate, Katsina state, Nigeria

An artisan Chiselling bronze sculpture statue at Swamimalai, Tamil Nadu, South India, India, Asia

Toda tribe hut, entry is through a carved wooden door so small that one has to crawl through it to enter at Kinnakorai, Nilgiris, Ooty Udhagamandalam, Tamil Nadu, South India, India, Asia. One of the great aboriginal tribes of India, Asia

Tuareg preparing tea on a camp fire, Tadrat, Tassili n´Ajjer, Algeria, North Africa, Africa

Dogon tribe shaman known as Fox Diviner, Dogon country, Mali, Africa.

Sunday Mass is celebrated at the rock_hewn church of Bet Giyorgis St. George, in Lalibela, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ethiopia, Africa

astrologer on road at uttar pradesh India Copyright: xArunxMishra/DinodiaxPhotox

Catholic man and his crucifix.

Voodoo cult in Togoville, Togo, West Africa, Africa

Snake charmer with cobra, in Sri Lanka. Artist: Unknown

Dhuni Tapa, symbolic self-sacrifice of sadhus to Agni, the God of fire, Haridwar, Uttarakhand, formerly Uttaranchal, India, Asia

Statue of berber woman woth traditional clothes in Morocco

Pastor Bereber. Imilchil.Cordillera del Atlas. Marruecos.

Ghana: Bonwire, (Ashanti Region), female Kente cloth weaver, Gifty Oforiwaa, 'Adrini Assa' design, March. (Editorial Usage Only)

A fortune teller reading the future, Porto Novo, Benin, West Africa. A Bokonon, or diviner, consults Fa, a traditional method of divining / geomancy.

Benin, Collines County, Tchogodo, Hountinmin Convent, Goat Sacrifice

Father's vigil over his dying son in a refugee camp during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. They are part of the 9.5 million who have fled East Pakistan and are vulnerable to hunger and disease. Nov. 1971.

Woman using her smart phone while attending the Muslim festival of Mawlid al-Nabi, which marks the birth of the Prophet Muhammad; Omdurman, Khartoum, ...

Mali, Near Timbuktu, Tuareg Camp In Harmattan Dust Storm, Traditional Dances

Algeria, Tribal People, Tuareg Silversmith.

Newly circumcised children in Touba, Senegal

ETHIOPIA, LALIBELA, UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE, CHURCH CARVED INTO ROCK, PRIEST WITH CROSS

Old man with walking stick, Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India

Fetish in Lobi village Fetish in Lobi village, in which there is animistic cult Copyright: xZoonar.com/MassimoxLamax 10829916

Hindu Woman collecting water from a well in a village near Bharatpur. Rajasthan. INDIA.

pandharpur yatra, pilgrims on way to pandharpur, maharashtra, india Copyright: xRajeshxVora/DinodiaxPhotox

Bodyguard of the Sultan before the Sultans palace of Koure, Niger, Africa

Africa, West Africa, Togo, Voodoo Hospital. Traditional healer performing voodoo ritual to heal the mentally ill at shrine in Togo.

Baby sleeping under a mosquito net.

Street scene and mosque behind, Mopti, Mali, Africa

Adivasi woman sticking beads onto a sari in a village in Narmada district, Gujarat, India, Asia

Yonna dance, also called Chichamaya, carries a considerable symbolic charge for the Wayuu indigenous people of Colombia, representing three basic principles for this tribal group: Social equality, collective solidarity and the improvement of relations between the human being and the Cosmos.

Ghana: Ntonso (Ashanti Region), man showing Adinkra cloth, March.

Craftsman carving wood Country Dogon Mali

Tuareg and traditional hand dug well, Morocco

Europia district, Debre Lebanon, Lipanus monastery, man sorting wax torches for the pilgrims at the monastery, Ethiopia, Africa

Snakes with snake charmer, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India Copyright: xDinodiaxPhotox

Preparation of Diwali Festival In India

Women praying for children, Seitdshemaletdin pilgrimage site, Anau ruins, Turkmenistan, Anau, Turkmenistan, Asia

Catholic woman in Dokoue village , Benin.

Mourning Himba women sit around the coffin at a funeral, Omohanja, Kaokoland, Kunene, Namibia, Africa

Mexico, Jalisco, San Sebastiícn Teponahuaxtlicn, Change of authorities in Wixarica Community

India, Tamil Nadu. Decorating a cow for Pongal harvest festival.

Sleeping coin changer, Gangotri, Indian Himalayas, Uttarakhand, formerly Uttaranchal, India, Asia

Boys in a medressa with holy quoran, Kano, Kano state, Nigeria, Africa

Myanmar (Burma), Yangon State, Yangon, Buddhist nuns Convent

Man carving on stone in Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh, India Copyright: xArunxMishra/DinodiaxPhotox

Ghana, Volta Region, A Trakosi Fetish Slave To Voodoo Priest. Virgin Girls Are Given To Village Priests As A Way Of Appeasing The Gods For Crimes Committed By Family Members.

Blick auf Kokosnüsse, die als Teil eines Wunschrituals in Tüchern an einem Baum befestigt sind, Dharmamaram, Mutharam, Telangana, Indien. View of coconuts tied in cloth on a tree as part of a wishing ritual, Dharmamaram, Mutharam, Telangana, India. LicenseRF Copyright: xZoonar.com/RealityImagesx 23416864

India, Rajasthan, 'Ayurvedic Medicine Stall Selling Roots, Seeds And Traditional Remedies.'

Villagers gather under a large tree in Nandom, Ghana, West Africa, Africa

Muslims stop in the Nubian Desert for evening prayers, Sudan, Africa

Farm worker at Dzogbegan Benedictine Abbey, Danyi Dzogbegan, Togo, West Africa, Africa

Alabaster workshop, Al Qurnah, Luxor, Thebes, Egypt, Luxor, Thebes, Egypt, Africa

Philanthropist at a traditional blessing ceremony stresses the importance of saving the forest in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique; Mozambique

Guard, Queen Twosret's tomb, Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt, Africa

Rock churches of Lalibela, pilgrims on the way between the rock churches, Ethiopia, Africa

Funeral for a victim of AIDS, Kyotera, Uganda.

Africa, Senegal, Dakar. Fulani village, semi-nomadic tribe located at the Pink Lake of Retba, about 40 miles from Dakar. Village fresh water well.

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