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South Pacific islander in native dress at traditional tribal ceremony in Honiara, Solomon Islands, South Pacific

Black bull with ring through nose in paddock meadow in The Cotswolds, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

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

Young recently circumcised Masai Warrior (moran) and a Masai girl with traditional face paint after 'coming of age' in the Serengei Plains, Tanzania

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

A holy man crouching at the Pashupatinath Temple on the Bagmati River in Nepal. It is one of the holiest Hindu Temples in the world.

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

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

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

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

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

Forehead designs, called tilakas, show a sadhus religious sectarian affiliations range from a simple daub of color to complex designs involving entire face. Vertical design of this sadhus tilaka shows to be a vaishnava, or follower of vishnu, preserver of universe. He is a benevolent gentle. gentility is reflected in worshippers devotess. application of a tilaka is usually done at start of each after bathing as a to sanctify body prepare it to receive divine. India

Zambia kaunga mashi village, shangombo district (near the angolan border). Seed distribution project by catholic relief services. Faces of farmers waiting to receive free seeds to grow crops. This follows 2 years of serious famine in the region

Zambia kaunga mashi village, shangombo district (near the angolan border). Seed distribution project by catholic relief services. Face of farmer waiting to receive free seeds to grow crops. This follows 2 years of serious famine in the region

Tanzanian man carrying hoe as he walks to his fields to start cultivating bananas and other crops, mvango village, same, in the north-east near kilimanjaro

India - religion - christian bishop abraham clemis, head of syrian-jacobite church, kottayam, kerala

Colombia father relating nicely to his son at a day care and child stimulation center run by dni (international defence of children) in barrancabermeja

Kenya. Faces of the congregation at catholic mass in mukuru ruben, a slum of nairobi. Children praying