Cultural Tribal Traditions

Vibrant portraits of tribal individuals from Papua New Guinea and Ethiopia highlight traditional attire, elaborate headdresses, and body art, celebrating cultural heritage.

Papua New Guinea Tribesman, Sepik River in traditional dress B1728

Colorful Huli Wigmen w/ Painted Face In Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea, native man with bright colored paint, headdress, and necklace NO MODEL RELEASE

Ethiopia, Karo man

Ethiopia, South Omo Valley, Mursi Tribe, Woman With Lip Plate.

Papua New Guinea, Tari Valley. Huli Spirit Dancers.

Black painted and decorated man during the traditional Sing Sing in the highlands, Enga, Highlands, Papua New Guinea, Oceania

Papua New Guinea, Sing-sing woman dance. (Large format sizes available)

WEST NEW GUINEA, (IRIAN JAYA, INDONESIA), ASMAT REGION, PORTRAIT OF PRIMITIVE MAN

Papua New Guinea Tribesman, Sepik River in traditional dress B1728

Portrait of a Highlands warrior at Sing Sing Festival, Mt. Hagen, Papua New Guinea

Male paddlers from Uwus perform greeting ceremony in Asmat Region, South Papua Province, Indonesia during cultural event

YAKOUBA TRIBAL DANCE, IVORY COAST. Traditional dance. .

Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province. Native dancer.

Asia, Papua New Guinea, Mount Hagen. Man with billum bag and hornbill beak neck piece

Oceania, Indonesia, Irian Jaya. Asmat people.

Dani warrior with boar's teeth and feather headdress, Yiwika, Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya, West Guinea, New Guinea, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Maasai man, Kenya, Africa

Midget in a Barong dance performance in Batubulan, Bali, Indonesia

Sarawak Cultural Village, Orang Ulu Warrior

Tribal performer at a Sing-sing, Mt Hagen Show, Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea, Oceania

niger, gerewol, surrounding of abalak

P N G Tari Valley Huly Wig Men Tribe Hule Eyes

Costa Rica, San Jose, Pre-Columbian Gold Museum, Figurine of warrior. Political and religious leadership rolls represented. Recreation of Pre-Columbian communities

Indonesia, Irian Jaya, Asmat man holding statue.

Dani Krieger, Baliem Valley, West Papua, Indonesia, Asia

Oceania, Indonesia, Irian Jaya. The Dani people.

A Karo woman wears an elaborate headdress made from the wing-cases of beetles and a cape of calf skin fringed with cowrie shells.

Niger, Agadez, Inebeizguine. A young Wodaabe man in traditional embroidered garments participates in the yakee dance known as the Dance of the Eyes.

Mali, Dogon Country, Tereli. The masked dancer wearing the fifteen-foot-high Sirige mask at the Dogon village of Tereli which is situated among rocks at the base of the 120-mile Bandiagara escarpment.

Black painted man celebrating the traditional Sing Sing in the highlands, Enga, Highlands, Papua New Guinea, Oceania

Vintage Photograph. Celebrating cultural heritage through traditional beadwork and accessories.

Asia, Indonesia, Irian Jaya, Hghlands. Dani tribesman, traditional ceremonial garb

Mexico, Yucatan Peninsula, Mayan local in traditional costume

Surma child with body paintings, Tulgit, Omo River Valley, Ethiopia, Africa

Young Surma (Suri) woman with traditional face decoration, Southwest Ethiopia; Kibish, Ethiopia

Wodaabe-Bororo man with face painted at the annual Gerewol festival, courtship ritual competition among the Fulani ethnic group, Niger, Africa

South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal. Two Zulu dancers in zebra masks. (MR)

Malaysia, Penang Cultural Centre, Warrior

Religious ritual of an indigenous people in a park in Coyoacan, Mexico City

Papa New Guinea, Simbu, Eastern Highlands. Bamboo flute players.

Asia, Papua New Guinea. Mount Hagen cultural show. Portrait, man in ceremonial dress and facepaint

Dancers wearing Kananga mask at the Dama celebration in Tireli, Mali

Huaorani Indians. In Quito, the capital of Ecuador for a protest. Amazon rainforest Indians, ECUADOR. South America.

Member of the Jiwaka tribe with headdress made from Cassowary feathers, at Mount Hagen Show, Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea, Oceania

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.

Dani Krieger, Baliem Valley, West Papua, Indonesia, Asia

Asia, Papua New Guinea. Mount Hagen cultural show. Yellow faced Huli men from Southern Highlands

South Pacific, Papua New Guinea, Black and white Simbu dancers, Sing Sing Festival

Nyangatom married women wear elaborately beaded skirts which reach the ground at the back and often have panels of different coloured calkfskin sewn into the tail.

Traditional dress, Papua New Guinea

Mursi tribeswoman adorned with shells and white clay. Omo Delta, Ethiopia, Africa.

Africa, Ethiopia, Turmi. Hamar Tribesman. (Editorial Usage Only)

Africa, Ghana, Accra. La Palm Beach Hotel. Traditional West African folkloric show. Ceremonial dancer with knife, sea shells on costume.

Papua New Guinea. man wearing traditional clothing. (Large format sizes available)

India: A young boy disguised as the Hindu god Hanuman at the Bharata Poornima Festival held near the Yellamma Temple, Saundatti, Karnataka (1994). Every year in the Hindu month of Magh (January - February) more than half a million people gather around the tiny temple of the goddess Yellamma in Saundatti. Yellamma is the patron of the devadasi or women dedicated to the service of a deity or temple.

Wodaabe tribesman performing at the Gerewol Festival, north of Abalak, Niger

Wodaabe-Bororo man with face painted at the annual Gerewol festival, courtship ritual competition among the Fulani ethnic group, Niger, Africa

The Chewa people, Malawis largest ethnic group, live on the west side of Lake Malawi. Despite years of missionary influence, they still cling to old beliefs and rituals. For them, death simply means a journey of rebirth into the spirit world.

Mali, Dogon Country, Tereli. The piercing eyes of a masked dancer wearing the fifteen-foot-high Sirige mask at the Dogon village of Tereli which is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.

Men of the ethnic group of the Bamileke with traditional masks, Dance of Death in honor of a deceased person, Badenkop, West Region, Cameroon, Africa

Himba tribes people, Kaokoland, Namibia, Africa

Caribbean, Barbados, Bridgetown. Crop Over Carnival.

Kenya, Portrait of young Samburu man in traditional dress; South Horr

Niger, Agadez, Inebeizguine. A young Wodaabe man in traditional embroidered garments participates in the yakee dance known as the Dance of the Eyes.

NEW GUINEA HIGHLANDS, NEAR TARI, HULI TRIBE, MEN PREPARING FOR TRADITIONAL DANCE

Surma boy with body painting, face painting, Surma tribe, Kibish, Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa

maori with traditional facial tattoo (moko) and authentic costume, new zealand model release available

Huli Wigman from the Tari Valley in the Southern Highlands at a Sing-sing, Mt Hagen, Papua New Guinea, Oceania

Shaman, Lago Agrio, Ecuador, South America

Pacific Islands, Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, Southern Highlands. Tari. Huli Tribe. Child Dressed For Sing Sing Festival Wearing Face Paint

Africa, Mali, Dogon Region, Tireli village. Masked dancer (Editorial Usage Only)

Oceania, Indonesia, Irian Jaya. Asmat people.

Masked Dogon dancer, Bandiagara Escarpment, Mali

Papua New Guinea, native man traditional dress shell bone portrait A66B

Mexico, Guerrero, Zihuatanejo. Young Man in Mayan Costume (MR)

Huaca de la Luna ("Temple/Shrine of the Moon") is a large adobe brick structure built mainly by the Moche people of northern Peru.Along with the Huaca del Sol, the Huaca de la Luna is part of Huacas de Moche, which is the remains of an ancient Moche capital city called Cerro Blanco, by the volcanic peak of the same name.

Surma child with face painted with pigment made from powdered coloured stones, Omo region, Southwest Ethiopia; Kibish, Ethiopia

Karo woman with face painting, colourful necklaces and cowrie shells, Omo Valley, Southern Ethiopia, Karo

Kimchungru Tribesman, Hornbill Festival; Nagaland, India

Oceania, Indonesia, Irian Jaya. The Dani people.

A Himba woman in traditional attire adjusts her headdress. Her body gleams from a mixture of red ochre, butterfat and herbs. Her long hair is styled in the traditional Himba way

Vijayanagara ruins, boy dressed as a Hunuman monkey god; Hampi, Karnataka, India

Phom warrior in full gear at the annual Hornbill Festival in Kohima, India, Asia

Detail of a Highlander's attire.Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea, (1974)

Head hunter of the ethnic group of the Iban people with a spear, Skrang River, Rajang, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia, Asia

Young Samburu girl in pre-marriage adornment near Wamba, north central Kenya

Pentecostes Festival held annually in May, Ollantaytambo, Peru. (Editorial Usage Only)

A Dassanech man dressed in ceremonial Dimi regalia, Ethiopia

Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Southern Highlands, Tari. Portrait of a Huli wigman's tribal spiritual person (MR)

Southern Ethiopia, woman of the Hammer people in Dimeka, dress made of goatskin and hair dyed with a mixture of fat and ochre-coloured clay, Ethiopia, Africa

Asaro tribesmen in full costume for a rital display of wealth.Papua New Guinea, (1974)

Africa, Gabon, Estuaire Region, Libreville Capital, La Sablií¨Re, Bwiti Ceremonies, The Mboma Na Ditsuala Spirit ('Python With Feathers') Shows Rarely To Humans, Here The Body Is Only A Support To The Spirit Showing Up During The Ceremony

Mayan shaman, ritual, ceremony, Xcaret, Yucatan, Mexico, North America, Central America

Kenya, Masai Mara. Safari guide, Salaash Ole Morompi,demonstrates the different tips to his arrows. (MR)

The ornamentation and pipe of a Hindu Sadhu is held in Kathmandu's Pashupatinath Temple in Nepal.

Young married Himba woman, in traditional costume and headdress, Kaokoland, Kunene, Namibia, Africa

Huli Tribe member in the Tari Valley area in Papua New Guinea s Southern Highlands; Tigibi, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea

Malaysia, Penang, Thaipusam, Hindu, religious, festival, kavadi bearer,

Tribal chief wearing a traditional dress, Highlands Region, Papua New Guinea, Oceania

Abui tribal headhunter in warrior dress, Alor Island, eastern area, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

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