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A cigarette between the lips matches the bone through his nose for this man at a Sing Sing tribal gathering in Papua New Guinea

Bearded tribesman wearing war paints and feathered headdress during a gathering of tribes at Mount Hagen in Papua New Guinea

Fijian warriors faces painted black in the traditional manner while attending a tribal gathering in Fiji, South Pacific

A tribesman wearing a large leaf and feather headdress playing a pipe during a meeting of tribes at Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea, Australasia.

Bearded tribesmen wearing war paints and feathered headdress during a gathering of tribes at Mount Hagen in Papua New Guinea

Bearded tribesman wearing feathered headdress and playing a pipe during a gathering of tribes at Mount Hagen in Papua New Guinea

Bearded tribesman wearing war paints and feathered headdress during a Sing Sing gathering of tribes at Mount Hagen in Papua New Guinea

Bearded tribesman wearing war paints and feathered headdress during a gathering of tribes at Mount Hagen in Papua New Guinea

Bearded tribesman wearing war paints and feathered headdress during a gathering of tribes at Mount Hagen in Papua New Guinea

Bearded tribesman wearing war paints and feathered headdress during a gathering of tribes at Mount Hagen in Papua New Guinea

Tribesman wearing war paints and feathered headdress during a gathering of tribes at Mount Hagen in Papua New Guinea

A Buddhist monk in saffron coloured robes with hands together while praying at the Buddhist Temple in Huating, China

Bearded tribesman wearing war paints and feathered headdress during a gathering of tribes at Mount Hagen in Papua New Guinea

Bearded tribesman wearing war paints and feathered headdress during a gathering of tribes at Mount Hagen in Papua New Guinea

Tribesman smoking a cigarette while wearing face paints and feathered headdress during a gathering of tribes at Mount Hagen in Papua New Guinea

Fijian warrior withhis face painted in the traditional manner and wearing a breastplate while attending a tribal gathering in Fiji, South Pacific

Wodaabe (Bororo) man with his face painted at the annual Gerewol male beauty contest, a general reunion of West African Wodaabe Peuls (Bororo Peul), Niger, West Africa, Africa

Wodaabe (Bororo) man with his face painted for the annual Gerewol male beauty contest, a general reunion of West African Wodaade Peuls (Bororo Peul), Niger, West Africa, Africa

Wodaabe (Bororo) men with faces painted at the annual Gerewol male beauty contest, a general reunion of West African Wodaabe Peuls (Bororo Peul), Niger, West Africa, Africa

Wodaabe (Bororo) man with his face painted at the annual Gerewol male beauty contest, a general reunion of West African Wodaabe Peuls (Bororo Peul), Niger, West Africa, Africa

Wodaabe (Bororo) men with faces painted at the annual Gerewol male beauty contest, a general reunion of West African Wodaabe Peuls (Bororo Peul), Niger, West Africa, Africa

Wodaabe (Bororo) man with his face painted at the annual Gerewol male beauty contest, a general reunion of West African Wodaabe Peuls (Bororo Peul), Niger, West Africa, Africa

Wodaabe (Bororo) men with faces painted at the annual Gerewol male beauty contest, a general reunion of West African Wodaabe Peuls (Bororo Peul), Niger, West Africa, Africa

Wodaabe-Bororo men with faces painted at the annual Gerewol male beauty contest, a general reunion of West African Wodaabe Peuls (Bororo Peul), Niger, West Africa, Africa

Wodaabe (Bororo) man with his face painted at the annual Gerewol male beauty contest, a general reunion of West African Wodaabe Peuls (Bororo Peul), Niger, West Africa, Africa

Make-up preparations, Taipei Eye, Chinese theatre, cultural dance performance, Taipei City, Taiwan, Asia

Wodaabe-Bororo men with faces painted at the annual Gerewol festival, courtship ritual competition among the Wodaabe Fula people, Niger, West Africa, Africa

Carved marble Roman portrait heads of four men, Archaeology Museum, Apollonia Archaeological Park, Albania, Europe

Carved marble Roman portrait heads of four men, Archaeology Museum, Apollonia Archaeological Park, Albania, Europe

Wodaabe-Bororo man with face painted at the annual Gerewol festival, courtship ritual competition among the Wodaabe Fula people, Niger, West Africa, Africa

Naga man wearing tiger teeth necklace and headdress of woven cane decorated with wild boar teeth, bear fur, red dyed goats hair, Naga New Year Festival, Lahe village, Sagaing Division, Myanmar (Burma), Asia

Wodaabe-Bororo men with faces painted at the annual Gerewol festival, courtship ritual competition among the Wodaabe Fula people, Niger, West Africa, Africa

Wearing tree bark cloth masks and skirts, dancers representing fish spirits are invited during the season of the peach palm harvest to drink the juice. it is a feast and ritual exchange: the host group offers the spirits large quantities of peach palm juice, smoked meat and fish, and shaman-blessed coca and snuff. the visitors are the costumed dancers impersonating animal spirits. people eat the meat and fish, animal spirits receive the fruits of peach palm, which are cultivated, harvested, and processed by humans. this exchange expresses the idea that people and animals depend on each other for survival and reproduction. vaupes basin, eastern colombia amazon, population: 600

India - religion - christian bishop geevarghese athanasius, head of martomite syrian-protestant church, kottayam, kerala

Reflection. Tibetan peoples home, rajpur, india. India. I remember this body when it a childs as it gradually took form of a youth. very limb is twisted worn. It is my body, it delights even my eyes.,seventh dalai lama, meditations on ways of impermanence. tradition regards meditation on death impermanence only as a useful technique keeping mind intensely focused. It also sees it as a method unlocking deepest secrets of life

Forehead designs, called tilakas, show a sadhus religious and sectarian affiliations and range from a simple daub of color to complex designs involving the entire face. the application of a tilaka is usually done at the start of each day after bathing as a way to sanctify the body and prepare it to receive the divine. pashupatinath, nepal