Historical Cultural Celebrations

Images showcase historic parades and ceremonies in Southeast Asia, featuring traditional attires and festive elements, evoking a rich cultural heritage.

Carrying palm mats 50 m. to church at Lam, W. Africa

Opening of Avele School, 12 June 1924, 1924, Sāmoa, by Percy Williams. Gift of Barbara Williams, 1986.

On the way to Jericho (Er-Riha), Jordan, etc. Ceremony of the Epiphany. 1898

The Angels await Thee. Greenwood. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), New York (N.Y.), Cemeteries , New York (State) , New York, Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), Green-Wood Cemetery (New York, N.Y.), Lakes & ponds

Clergy on the stairs of the rosary basilica in Lourdes, Anonymous, 1901 - 1910 photograph This photo is part of an album. Lourdes baryta paper staircase. organization, functionaries and dignitaries in churches and in related institutions. place of pilgrimage, sacred place Lourdes

Photo production of a painting, representative Joseph asks shelter at the Inn in Bethlehem. .

Javanese men sit on the floor in a Kraton.

Description: The Chiefs of Diobu, Ikwerre tribe, Rivers Province, Nigeria. August 27, 1958. On the occasion of their protest against the Minorities Commission Report. Location: Diobu, Nigeria Date: 27 August 1958 nigeria, 1958, commission, chiefs, minorities, ikere, africa, diobu, ikwerre

Wedding procession, Peking. Wedding procession, Peking

Llama Priests. John H. Doyle (British, active India 1872 - 1886)

Two hikers at a mosque, Vicomte Arthur-Jean le Bailly d'eghuem, 1875 print paper. etching / drypoint temple, shrine ~ Islam, Mohammedanism. trees: palm-tree. landscapes (+ landscape with figures, staffage) Tunis

Russian Epiphany, Jordan River. 1898

Description: Portrait of H.M. the King before being carried in procession. Location: Chu Fou, China Date: 1904 china, asiathroughalens, asia

The grotto of Massabielle at the beginning of the 20th century - showing the statue, and crutches left by those who, miraculously, don't need them any more Date: circa 1905

Camp Meeting Views. Round Lake. Saratoga, New York. T.J. Arnold (American, active 1870s)

Barcelona, 06/30/1911. The festival of Saint Christopher. Solemn moment of the blessing of cars in the chapel of Saint Christopher, patron saint of chauffleurs.

Victorian Blacks - Melbourne tribe holding corroboree after seeing ships for the first time-Sketchbook of Aboriginal activities. Date/Period: Ca. 1890s. Drawing. Height: 238 mm (9.37 in); Width: 360 mm (14.17 in). Author: Tommy McRAE-Kwatkwat people.

Pilgrims camp on the plain of Arafat during the Haagj, Abd al-Ghaffar, 1889 photomechanical print This print is part of an album. Plain of arafat paper. cardboard collotype other ritual practices ~ Islam, Mohammedanism. tent-camp Plain of arafat

A Hindu cremation ritual in which bones and remains are done in cattle similar images before they are burned.

Procession near College to drive out evil spirits and bestow blessings and protection. Procession near College to drive out evil spirits and bestow blessings and protection

Celebration Main Flag Pole. 1900 - 1954. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Aberdeen Area Office. Crow Creek Agency. 1949-1954. Photographs

Description: The Balik Pulau Chinese School procession. Location: Penang, Malaya Date: 1937 asia, malaysia, asiathroughalens

There are two forms of music recognized to be the oldest forms of traditional Japanese music. They are shōmyō (明 or 聲明), or Buddhist chanting, and gagaku (雅楽) or orchestral court music, both of which date to the Nara and Heian periods. Gagaku is a type of classical music that has been performed at the Imperial court since the Heian period. Kagura-uta (神楽歌), Azuma-asobi(東遊) and Yamato-uta (大和歌) are indigenous repertories. Tōgaku (唐楽) and komagaku originated from the Chinese Tang dynasty via the Korean peninsula. In addition, gagaku is divided into kangen (管弦) (instrumental music) and bugaku (舞楽) (dance accompanied by gagaku).

Monastery of Monte Santo The almost undamaged painting in a completely destroyed church, Isonzo valley, near Görz. Photographer: Flamm (16. Korps).

Description: Kabir of Gubio. Kanuri africa

Hired mourners in a Jewish cemetery. Tunis ca.1923. Tunisia, Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection , Photograph by Garrigues.

Statue of Faith, for Plymouth Monument. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Plymouth (Mass.)

Interior of tabernacle , Audiences, Camp meetings, Tents

The Pilgrims: A halt by the way.Doukhobors strange religious sect in Canada. April 03, 1939. (Photo by G. Riddington).

Projection image with motifs from Skansen. The covist.

Jewish funeral in Trento.

Collection 558 pH. C. Visser. Photo album fisherman: Third karakorum expedition, 1929. Album leaf with three photos. Left: glaciers between Matayan and Dras; Middle: Four indigenous residents in Dras; A sculpture of a deity at Dras. May 7, 1929. Dras, India

Gamelan orchestra playing during the visit of Europeans to the Regent of Wonosobo on Java. Part of travel album with photographs of activity and sights on Sumatra and Java and from the trip to and from the Dutch East Indies.

Usküdar, Asian Faubourg of Constantinople (current Istanbul), Turkey Cemetery of Karacaahmet or Büyük Mezaristan ("Grand Cemetery"), in a cypress wood , 1913 - Balkans - Jean Brunhes and Auguste Léon - (April 23 - June 9) (French - Usküdar , faubourg asiatique de Constantinople ( actuelle Istanbul ) , Turquie Cimetière de Karacaahmet ou Büyük Mezaristan ( «Grand cimetière» ) , dans un bois de cyprès). Tomb, cemetery, conifer, cypress, funeral architecture, Islam, crafts, vegetation , botany, man, Habitat , architecture, religion, economic activity, nature , environment, human beings, Turkey of Asia, Scutari, corner of the cemetery with the seated man

Archery of Tandjong Pope, Banjir, Sumatra.

The Builder of the Cathedral. 1919. Photographs. Billy Rose Theatre Division

Hopi Indian Dancers, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Original caption: Hopi Indian Dancers - Albuquerque, New Mexico - Officers of US #66 Association - and Indians. State: New Mexico Place: Albuquerque.

Photo production of (presumably) a painting with the three kings on their way to Bethlehem, Anonymous, c. 1860 - c. 1870 photograph Part of English family album with photos of people, travel, cricket and artworks. paper. photographic support albumen print the star appears again and guides the three Wise Men to Bethlehem

Village God. Kataula, Frederick Saint John Gore, c. 1890 - in or before 1895 photomechanical print Kataula paper collotype altar ~ non-Christian religions - BB - in the open air. façade (of house or building). drum (musical instrument) - CC - out of doors

Interior of the Hualin Temple of Guangzhou with statues, recto - handwritten, photograph, photo, photos, Canton-Part of the Temple of the 500 Genii, height 225 mm, width 310 mm, photographer, 1850 - 1900, photographic paper, photo paper, cardboard, albumen print, albumine print

Information office and radio broadcaster Dutch New Guinea. Two happy couples leave the church in Boeti, where they were scored by Father J. Verschueren in the real. October 1954. New Guinea

May Thirtieth Movement's Martyrs Statue Pavilion. The May Thirtieth Movement was major labour and patriotic movement against imperialist powers led by the Chinese Communist Party.

Christian crosses in Germany, Rocks in Saxony, Ostritz, 1919, Landkreis Görlitz, Neissethal mit verlassenem Kreuz

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DCL Visit Mainlayeral mugs agent H.J.J.M. Van Straelen. Church service in an improvised church. March 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Procession Leaving St Paul Church.

The Karen or Kayin people (Pwa Ka Nyaw Poe or Kanyaw in Sgaw Karen and Ploan in Poe Karen; Kariang or Yang in Thai), are a Sino-Tibetan language speaking ethnic group which resides primarily in southern and southeastern Burma (Myanmar). The Karen make up approximately 7 percent of the total Burmese population of approximately 50 million people. A large number of Karen also reside in Thailand, mostly on the Thai-Burmese border. The Karen are often confused with the Red Karen (or Karenni). One subgroup of the Karenni, the Padaung tribe from the border region of Burma and Thailand, are best known for the neck rings worn by the women of this group of people. Karen legends refer to a 'river of running sand' which ancestors reputedly crossed. Many Karen think this refers to the Gobi Desert, although they have lived in Burma for centuries. Today, the Karen constitute the biggest ethnic population in Burma after the Bamars and Shans.

Father Louis van der Vrande During the tenders of a holy mass on a Tjot for soldiers of the Dutch Detachment United Nations in Korea. See 227 (Father L. v.D. Vrandand M.S.C. (P'Yong-Dong-Ni) (Laid series)

Wedding procession, Peking. Wedding procession, Peking

Nara. Hapag tourists in front of sculpture of the Holy Deer and Hirschen and before holy lanterns in Nara Park

Negroes kneeling at graves of their relatives, and being blessed by Priest with Holy Water, New Roads, La. African American women and children commemorating their lost relatives on their knees in a cemetery on All Saints' Day, 1938.. 1938. Photographs. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. Louisiana, All Saints' Day, Cemeteries, African American women, African American clergy, New Roads (La.)

Burning Ghat, Calcutta. Samuel Bourne (English, 1834 - 1912)

Religious Procession Leaving the Church, Pueblo Santo Domingo, N.M. still image. Postcards. 1908 - 1909. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Santo Domingo Pueblo (N.M.), Religious processions

Indian Church, Mexico.. Benjamin West Kilburn (American, 1827 - 1909)

Reverent but prejudicial Ancestor Worship, one of China's immense cemeteries which seriously lessen her productive land area, 1900, China, by James Ricalton, Underwood & Underwood.

Grave in graveyard of Catholic church. Bernalillo County, New Mexico 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Mexico , Bernalillo County

Westchester Co. Fair - on the Midway Bi. Ji., the Hindu Wonder, New York

St. Mary's Cathedral bread line where the little tots were not forgotten, San Francisco disaster , Bread & soup lines, Children, Disaster victims, San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906

PP1-49 (31) Residents of Sutton Coldfield Description: The Maypole Dancers. (Elder Girls). The individual portraits and autographs being those of the children taking part in the "Jubilee" festivities. From Residents of Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham: address to Queen Victoria on her Golden Jubilee. Photograph album, with photographs of the tomb of Bishop Vesey 1462-1555 in parish church; park keepers in Chase Park (named); portraits of girls photographed within Chase Park (various ages, named); views of Sutton Coldfield and Chase Park; planting of trees within Park during Jubilee week by the mayor, maypole dances by local schoolgirls and other actitivities during the week. Date: 1887 jubilee, queenvictoria, pp1, loyaladdress

Cairo, Egypt, Africa Installations for the "Mohamédan" feast , 1914 - Egypt - Auguste Léon - (January -February) (French - Le Caire , Egypte , Afrique Installations pour la fête de «Mohamédan»). Floor , Reverber, Religious Festival, Tent, Lantern, Islam, Bench, Ephemeral Installation, Flag, Man, Day, religion, housing , architecture, human beings, Egypt, Cairo, installations for the Mohamedan festival

Plains Indian tipi, North America. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1900.

Meeting local inhabitants and clergy in Podhajce Galicia.

Information office and radio broadcaster Dutch New Guinea. A bishop from the Asmat. November 1957. New Guinea

A native Chinese apothecary's shop; heads and beaks of birds, hoofs and legs of other animals and bears' feet in lines on the ground. Photograph.

Chapel in a village, Zimbabwe

Series of four photographs by Johann Baptist Obernetter from 1890 depicting a baptism, printed using light printing on a base box, showing ceremonial elements, participants, and religious setting.

Nuremberg. The crucifixion in front of the Johannes cemetery ..

Image: A minister of the Da Nang Church of Christ welcoming friends from the 29th Civil Affairs Company in Vietnam. The church was built by the company two years ago, and the Vietnamese people, with the company's assistance, are currently constructing a dormitory for orphans adjacent to the church. (Caption: 374 - Vietnamese Civilian Life - July 19, 1968. Photo by Sgt. Danford. Defense Dept. Photo - Marine Corps)

Bridal feasts from China, around 1880, historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date Not Stated

Village God. Kataula. .

Coliseum--interior view , Concert halls, Music festivals, Celebrations, National Peace Jubilee and Musical Festival 1869 : Boston, Mass.

Ko'yemshi Gods in masks and blankets in the plaza, Zuni nation. Lithograph after a painting by Mary Wright Gill from John Wesley Powell's 23rd Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington, 1904.

ToneelVorstellLingLing in the Kingdom of Ngayayakarta Hadiningrat in Jogyakarta, Indonesia, KAS KASSI Céphas, C. 1883 - In or before 1888 photomechanical print The Kingdom of Hadiningrat paper collotype group of actors, troupe; actors on the stage The Kingdom of Hadiningrat

The arrival of the coffins in front of the cemetery chapel, cholera in St Petersburg, Russia, photo by Bulla from L'Illustration, No 3423, October 3, 1908.

Description: Skulls in Samory's Old Camp Bimtuku. Location: Bimtuku Description: Native Drummers Bimtuku. Location: Bimtuku skulls, samory, africa, bintuku

Canon del Muerto - Navajo; Edward S. Curtis (American, 1868 - 1952); 1906; Gravure; 39.8 x 29.8 cm (15 11,16 x 11 3,4 in.)

Forest Hills and Mt. Hope Cemetery. Peace on Earth , Crèches Nativity scenes, Forest Hills Cemetery Boston, Mass.. Leon Abdalian Collection

Getsemane, Kidron -Dal, Anonymous, 1900 - 1930 stereograph. photomechanical print Gethsemane cardboard garden Gethsemane

Benarès, Indies altar surmounted by a lingam on the edge of the Ganges , 1913-1914 - India, Pakistan - Stéphane Passet - (December 16 -January 29) (French - Bénarès , Indes Autel surmonté d' un lingam au bord du Gange). Statue, river, sculpture, altar, object of worship, Art , Religion, Small temple of the banks of the Ganges, Bénarès, January 31

Parade with float and participants; Ornamented Car Drawn at festivals. Part of album with 69 photos of a journey through Japan.

Coronation of Chinese Emperor , Parades & processions, Costumes. Leon Abdalian Collection

12/31/1928. Játiva (Valencia). August Festivities. "Greek templete", float of the Festivities commission, presented in the multicolored arena.

We observe sixteen slabs of jade, hung in two rows of eight each, in a carved frame. The slabs are seemingly identical but the thickness varies. The Korean Mask dance, or Talchum (), could be characterized as a Korean dance performed while wearing a mask, mimicry, miming, speaking and even sometimes singing.

Grape Pressing by monks at the Abbaye de Notre Dame de Staoueli - Algiers, Algeria. Date: circa 1905

Catholic clergy and priests at outdoor religious service circa 1918.

Description: Recipe for Placating Evil Spirits. Islanders scrambling for buns - the grand finale and the most spectacular part of the festival. Location: Hong Kong Date: 1969

Portrait of an unknown person, probably the English proxy John Robinson, bishop of Bristol, large blanket of Windsor and Wohl Verhampton, Minister of State.

Church of Saint Barbara (Dubice), Trees in Ústí nad Labem Region, 1911, Ústí nad Labem Region, Dubitz, Baumblut am Dubitzer Kirchl, Czech Republic

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,RELIGION War

Mt. Rubidoux Easter Service, Riverside Calif. still image. Postcards. 1913 - 1930. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Easter, Religious services , California , Riverside

The chaplain of the NDVN, Father L. van den Vrande, is preparing for a holy mass on a hill. See 227 (Father L. v.D. Vrandand M.S.C. (P'Yong-Dong-Ni) (Laid series)

Pueblo San Juan, Native American

12/31/1916. Religion in War. A chapel built from pine branches by soldiers in the Moselle region.

People leaving Buddhist church, winter II, Ansel Adams

Coronation of Chinese Emperor , Parades & processions, Costumes. Leon Abdalian Collection

Jews burial ground.. Reverend George Wilson Bridges (English, born Australia, 1788 - 1863)

The Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes, Bronx, New York , Caves, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Whale hunting skin boats, or "umiaks," at Whale Festival. Alaska Task Force Photographs

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