Nigerian chief wearing jewel crown at tribal gathering cultural event at Port Harcourt in Nigeria, West Africa

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

Tribesman in war paints at gathering of tribes, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea.

Native American Indian, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Maori Warrior, New Zealand.

Man at Sing Sing tribal gathering, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

Tribal Ceremony, Papua New Guinea

Man at a Sing Sing tribal gathering, Papua New Guinea, South Pacific

Tribal dancing, Papua New Guinea

Tribal dancer with elephant headdress, Bamenda, Cameroon, Africa

Tribal Ceremony, Papua New Guinea

Tribal festival, Papua New Guinea

Tribes people in war paints at gathering of tribes, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea, South Pacific

Maori Warrior at a tribal gathering in New Zealand.

Tribal dancers at a festival in Cameroon, Africa

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

Man at Sing Sing tribal gathering Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

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

Tribal dancer at a festival in Cameroon, Africa

Woman at a Sing Sing tribal gathering, Papua New Guinea, 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.

Man at a Sing Sing tribal gathering Papua New Guinea, South Pacific

Man at Sing Sing tribal gathering Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

Man at a Sing Sing tribal gathering Papua New Guinea, South Pacific

Man at Sing Sing tribal gathering Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

A Maori man with spear at a tribal gathering in New Zealand

Fijian warriors with spears attending a tribal gathering in Fiji, South Pacific

Girl at Sing Sing tribal gathering Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

Tribesman with painted face and a cigarette in Papua New Guinea

Man at Sing Sing tribal gathering Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

Men at Sing Sing tribal gathering Mount Hagen, 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

Woman with tribal markings on her face, Northern Nigeria

Native man with face paint at a Sing Sing tribal gathering, Papua New Guinea

Man at Sing Sing tribal gathering Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

Woman at Sing Sing tribal gathering Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

Naga tribal men in traditional clothing, Kisima Nagaland Hornbill festival, Kohima, Nagaland, India, Asia

Naga tribal man in traditional outfit, Kisima Nagaland Hornbill festival, Kohima, Nagaland, India, Asia

Naga tribal men in traditional clothing, Kisima Nagaland Hornbill festival, Kohima, Nagaland, India, Asia

Naga tribal man in traditional outfit, Kisima Nagaland Hornbill festival, Kohima, Nagaland, India, Asia

Naga tribal man in traditional outfit, Kisima Nagaland Hornbill festival, Kohima, Nagaland, India, Asia

Naga tribal man in traditional outfit, Kisima Nagaland Hornbill festival, Kohima, Nagaland, India, Asia

Crowd attending tribal gathering durbar cultural event at Maiduguri in Nigeria, West Africa

Woman with tribal markings on her face holding her baby close, Northern Nigeria

Tribal gathering Sing Sing at Mount Hagen in Papua New Guinea, South Pacific

Naga tribal man in traditional outfit playing drum, Kisima Nagaland Hornbill festival, Kohima, Nagaland, India, Asia

Tribal display at cultural festival in Bamenda, Cameroon, West Africa

Tribal dancer at a festival in Cameroon, Africa

Nigerian locals at tribal gathering cultural event at Port Harcourt in Nigeria, West Africa

Makuna-colombian shamans making shaman mask,

Makuna-colombian shamans,

Kayapo women dancing traditional dances, brazil,amazon

Colombian shaman, , amazon, makuna indians, makuna woma

Colombian shaman,

Xavante indian tribesmen, brazil

Colombian shaman, , amazon, makuna indians, makuna closeup, makuna workin

Makuna-colombian shamans,

Xavante indian tribesmen, brazil

Makuna indian, colombi

Xavante warriors prepare to wrestle wooden poles, a of taming or harnessing dark jungle forests. Brazil

Colombian shaman, , amazon, makuna indians, makuna closeup, makuna workin

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

Yoruba women dance in trance at a sacred water festival to honor their animistic spirits. nigeria, africa

The idea of the interconnectedness of all things is central to the tribal way of looking at the world. practical knowledge of the environment, of crops and medicines, of hunting and fishing, is a byproduct of it. the makuna believe that human beings, animals, and all of nature are parts of the same one. animals and fish live in their own communities, which are just like human communities, with their chiefs, their shamans, their dance houses, their songs, and their material possessions. when human peoples dance in this world, the shaman invites the animal people to dance in theirs. if humans do not dance and shamans do not offer spirit food to the animal people, the animals will die out and there will be no more game left in the world. for the makuna the radical disjunction so characteristic of western thought between nature and culture, men and animals, dissolves. eastern colombia amazon, vaupes region, population: 600

Makuna-colombian shamans,

Xavante, brazil

Colombian shaman, , amazon, makuna indians, makuna woman chil

Kayapo women dancing traditional dances, brazil,amazon

Colombian shaman, , amazon, makuna indians, makuna closeup, makuna workin

Kayapo women dancing traditional dances, brazil

Colombian shaman, , amazon, makuna indians, makuna woman chil

A protrait of a young makuna,amazon rainforest

Colombian shaman picking herbs, colombi

Myanmar bride groom cutting cake, catholic wedding of tribal kachins at myitkyina, a largely kachin community in north burma near chinese border

Kenya. Masai women getting ready to dance at their masai village within the amboseli national park

Colombian shaman, , amazon, makuna indians, makuna closeup, makuna workin

Xavante indian tribesmen, brazil

Xavante race. race is really a race at, it’s a ceremony, an aesthetic event. Xavante nonplused by notions of winning losing. logs carried by team, representing oppositions that xavante believe go to make up universe. running of logs expresses dynamic tension between opposing principles. purpose of ceremonies to stress that these antithesis need tear world apart. Opposing be controlled to complement each other create equilibrium harmony. Brazil

Makuna-colombian shamans,

Yaruba kids, nigeria, afric

Tuareg on camel, Algeria, North Africa

Myanmar bride groom friends at a catholic wedding of tribal kachins at myitkyina, a largely kachin community in north burma near chinese border

Hamatsa dancers from the Kwakwa_ka_'wakw first nations people in Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada. No model or property releases for this image.

Hamatsa dancers from the Kwakwa_ka_'wakw first nations people in Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada. No model or property releases for this image.

Tribe members, bamboo weave, making crafts, Iban Long House comunity. Kuching, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia, South-East Asia, Asia

Adult female, tribe member, stripping bamboo for craft, Iban Long House comunity. Kuching, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia, South-East Asia, Asia

Tribe members, bamboo weave, making crafts, Iban Long House comunity. Kuching, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia, South-East Asia, Asia

Two local girls, traditional inuit dress, town center of Nikolskoye Village, Bearing Sea, Russia, Asia

Tribe members, bamboo weave, making crafts, Iban Long House comunity. Kuching, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia, South-East Asia, Asia

A leisure afternoon at a tribal village in Purulia, West Bengal, India

Mother teaching her child in a tribal village in India.

23/06/2008 Two local girls, traditional inuit dress, town center of Nikolskoye Village, Bearing Sea, Russia, Asia

Tribe Elder and Cheif, Iban Long House comunity. Kuching, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia, South-East Asia, Asia

Hamatsa dancers from the Kwakwa_ka_'wakw first nations people in Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada. No model or property releases for this image.

Hamatsa dancers from the Kwakwa_ka_'wakw first nations people in Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada. No model or property releases for this image.

Traditional handmade moccasin

Native American woman in traditional headdress performing ceremony

Native American woman wearing traditional headdress

Native American woman in traditional headdress performing ceremony

Native American woman in traditional headdress performing ceremony