Cultural Traditional Dance

Photographs of dancers in traditional attire performing cultural dances, showcasing rituals and heritage from various regions.

Aborigines Dancing Queensland Australia

Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, Bismarck Sea area, Tuam Island, Tuam village. Traditional village sing-sing. Male dancer in with elaborate headdress and boar tusk necklace.

Aborigines Dancing Queensland Australia

New Guinea, Papua, Three Huli people sitting on tree trunk in forest. (Large format sizes available)

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

Solomon Islands, Santa Ana Island, Portrait Of Man In Traditional Clothing

Fiji, Denarau Island, Man Standing in Fijian Traditional Costume. (Large format sizes available)

Africa, Ethiopia, Omo River Valley, Suri tribe. Grandson of chief Bologedung (Bulugedong) with painted face in chief's compound near Kibish village.

Melanesia, Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal Island, capital city of Honiara. Kakabona Cultural Village. Traditional palm basket weaving demonstration. (Large format sizes available)

Portrait of three folk dancers dancing, Sri Lanka

Indonesia, Irian Jaya, Korowai people looking away.

Papua New Guinea, Kuiawa Island, aka Kuyau. Traditional welcome sing-sing. (Editorial Use Only)

Man with headdress and body paint New-Guinea

Young girl and other villagers outside of their tribal huts in the Peruvian Amazon Jungle near Iguitos, Peru.

Iquitos, Peru, Amazon Jungle, A Yagua Tribe does a cermonial dance in their village square hut.

A woman belonging to the N!!S band of hunter-gatherers. The N!!S are a part of the San people, often referred to as Bushmen. They speak with four distinct click consonants.

VANUATU, (NEW HEBRIDES), AMBRYM ISLAND, VILLAGE SCENE WITH NATIVE PEOPLE

Vanuatu, Tanna Island, Fetukai. Black Magic and Kava Test Tour, Villagers in Native Dress, warrior greetings. MR

Dani man engaged in a mock battle with a long spear, in a display of prowess and opulence of dress and decoration, Obia Village, Baliem Valley, Centra...

Melanesia, Solomon Islands, Santa Cruz Island group, Malo Island. Young girls in native attire with beetle nut stained teeth.

Huli tribesman wearing wig and using fire in the Tari Valley area in Papua New Guinea s Southern Highlands; Tigibi, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea

Fertility Dancer Bororo Man Niger

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

Papua New Guinea, New Guinea, 'Melpa Tribesman Wearing Hat Decorated With Fur, Feathers And Leaves With Young Child Sitting In Front Of Him.'

Traditionally dressed islanders, Yap Island, Caroline Islands, Micronesia, Oceania

Vanuatu, Tanna Island, Fetukai. Black Magic and Kava Test Tour, Villagers in Native Dress. MR

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

A young Mekeo woman prepares for a cultural performance; Central Province, Papua New Guinea

Travel photos. Dancer with traditional whipped weapon and traditional dance jewelry

Malaysia, Sarawak Cultural Village, Orang Ulu Warrior

A group of NS hunter gatherers enjoy eating an ostrich egg, which has been baked in the embers of a fire. The NS live in the harsh environment of a vast expanse of flat sand and bush scrub country straddling the Namibia Botswana border.

Rarotonga Island. Cook Island. Polynesia. A group of children dressed as dancers of the Cook Island around the Punanga Nui Markets. Cook Islands dancing is almost similar to Tahitian dancing. The difference between Cook Islands and Tahitian dancing is in the hip swaying and the feet. Women dancers hip motion must be predominantly side-to-side and they must be flat footed while doing this.

A village chief raises his right hand during the playing of the Papuan National Anthem at Banak Village, Papua New Guinea, Sep. 16, 2022. The village of Banak put together a celebration on Papua New Guinea's Independence Day in memorial of 1st. Lt. Gabriel J. Eggud whose remains were found and accounted for on a recovery mission in 2019. DPAAs mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and our nation.

Back view of female Fijian Dancers in traditional clothing sitting on the ground

Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, Tufi. Two young women in traditional sing-sing native attire. Tufi is well known for its use of tropical bird feathers, seashells, and tapa cloth in their elaborate costumes.

Pentecost land divers prepare the tower for jumping; Pentecost Island, Vanuatu

Indigenous with face painting and traditional clothes

South Ethiopia, in Maco National Park, Mursi tribe, Mursi boy with painted face and headdress, Ethiopia, Africa

Dancing Women, Sing Sing, Festival, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea, Oceania

Yap. Yapese dancers do the traditional bamboo stick dance.

South Pacific, French Polynesia, Gambier Islands, Mangareva, Rikitea. Welcome dance, grass skirt detail.

San Bushmen dancing and playing games around a fire, Kalahari, Botswana, Africa

Native American children wearing traditional clothing dancing at Omak Stampede ground, Washington State, USA

huli tribesman with face painting, & headdress papua new guinea,

Karo tribesmen with traditional clay body decoration, clay and feather headdress, and carrying a rifle. Omo Delta, Ethiopia, Africa

Colorful Women in Native Zulu Tribe at Shakaland Center South Africa (MR)

Native Tribal Man In Floral Headdress

Two young Dassanech herdsboys pause in shallow water beside the Omo River. The river bursts its banks annually during heavy rain in the Ethiopian Highlands, Ethiopia

Portrait of an indigenous man with a curved bone in his nose piercing, Irian Jaya, New Guinea, Indonesia

Namibia - A group of Kung Bushmen / San in the Kalahari Desert. In the rainy season with green vegetation. Intu Afrika Kalahari Game Reserve, Namibia.

Natives dancing, singing and playing drums during traditional African show, Swaziland

Boy hunting songbirds with a slingshot, Acampamento 12 de Otubro landless camp, Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais sem Terra, a Brazilian landless movement, MST, Munizip Claudia, Mato Grosso, Brazil, South America

Kuikuro tribe warriors dance in the rain in the upper Xingu, Matto Grosso, Brazil.

Funny old couple at Ati Atihan festival, Kalibo, Aklan, Panay Island, Philippines

Portrait Young man topless wearing loinclothes in rural lifestyle standing with bamboo fishing trap to catch fish or shrimp for cooking

FIJI, KORO ISLAND, WARRIOR WITH BATTLE CLUB

Manufacture of the traditional hut Pygmy Baaka

Panama, Embera Woman Of The Darien

San man with bow and arrow, Bushman tribe, Kalahari, Namibia, Africa

Intore drummer performs at Butare.In the days of the monarchy in Rwanda, Intore dancers were an integral part of the Royal Court. Today, several groups perform nationally and internationally. Their rhythm, movement and impressive drumming is widely acclaimed.

Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904). British journalist and explorer. African porters carrying sections of Lady Alice boat. Engraving in The Illustrated World, 1880. Colored.

Women of the Korowai people with insect larvae, West Papua, West New Guinea, Irian-Jaya, tree people, Indonesia, Asia

Philippines, Luzon Island, Man in traditional Ifugao loin cloth posing for snapshots at Banaue terraces. (MR)

Anefo photo collection. Suriname (street images, industry, politics, people etc. Population: Forest screens Dorp. 1975. Suriname

Huaorani Indians in a protest march. Amazon rainforest Indians, ECUADOR. South America.

Two boys on Kuiawa Island in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea; Kuiawa, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea

Colombia, Sierra Nevada De Santa Marta, Kogi-Wiwa Family Outside Mud-Wattle/Grass Thatched Home In Avingue Village On South Side Of Sierra Nevada De Santa Marta. Mother De-Lousing Grandmother'S Hair. Strings Of Red Glass Beads A Sign Of Family Wealth. Tribal Indigenous Colombian Columbia Hispanic Indegent Latin America Latino Mum South America

Firewalkers, Polynesian Cultural Center, Viti Levu Island, Fiji

Karo Krieger, Aethiopien. Karo Krieger am Omo Fluss, suedliches Aethiopien. Karo warrior atop the Omo River, southern Ethiopia. ,model released, Symbolfoto Copyright: xZoonar.com/AndreasxWolfx 328676 ,model released, Symbolfoto ,property released

Man of the Korowai people, West Papua, West New Guinea, Irian-Jaya, Tree people, Indonesia, Asia

Bushmen of the Ju/' Hoansi-San on traditional hunting with bow and arrow, reading tracks, village //Xa/oba, near Tsumkwe, Otjozondjupa region, Namibia, Africa

Ethiopia, Demeka, Portrait Of Hamer Woman Holding Frangipani Flower.

South America, Brazil, Miranda, Terena indigenous man from the Pantanal in a feather headdress wearing a bone and peccary tooth necklace

Boy wearing a cap fern Papua New-Guinea

Thai woman smelling flower

Painted Aboriginal Boy with camera in the Outback Australia (MR)

Sunday Evening Jam Session, Beau Vallon, Mahe Island, Seychelles

Mid-adult man wearing traditional clothing at a lake.

Kenya, Mombasa. Women carry on their heads makuti (dried coconut palm fronds used as roofing material) on a beach on Kenya south coast.

A band of N!!S hunter-gatherers set out to hunt. The N!!S are a part of the San people, often referred to as Bushmen. They speak with four distinct click consonants.

Manggarai men wearing traditional headdress wrapped with cloth using shields and bamboo whips in a caci, a ritual whip fight, Melo village, Flores, Ea...

Australia, Queensland, Aborigine Blowing Didgeridoo

Young boy fishing with spear

A young Himba girl in traditional attire. Her body gleams from a mixture of red ochre, butterfat and herbs. Her long hair is styled in the traditional Himba way. The Himba are Herero speaking Bantu nomads who live in the harsh, dry but starkly beautiful landscape of remote northwest Namibia.

Sub-Saharan Africa, Senegal. As part of their tribal initiation into manhood, these five 12 and 13-year-old Bedik boys run all day for one month through their village of Iwol to'learn the secrets of life.'

A village elder takes a young girl to their tribal huts in the Peruvian Amazon Jungle near Iguitos, Peru.

South Africa - Zulu woman portrait - tribe (MR)

Native American Indian of the Northeastern Tribes takes a puff while smoking a pipe during the Fort Niagara French Indian Wars Reenactment, NY

Africa, Ghana, Accra. La Palm Beach Hotel. Traditional West African folkloric show. Male dancer with sea shells.

Close-up of a young woman

Traditional healer, Himba, holding a cat, Omohanja, Kaokoland, Kunene, Namibia, Africa

Ecuador, People, Girls, Portrait Of Auca Indian Girl From Christian Group With Her Face Decorated With Red Achote Paint.

Philippines, Luzon Island, The Cordillera Mountains, Kalinga Province, Tinglayan. Liglig Headhunters Village - old woman with traditional tattoo on arms and hands.

Man unpacking bird of paradise plumes including Lesser, Greater and Raggiana Birds of Paradise for headdresses at a Sing-sing at Paiya, Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea, Oceania

Zulu women, zululand, southafrica, africa 1920 1930.

Young boy in traditional dress standing before a traditional hut on the island of Yap, Micronesia

Namibia, Skeleton Coast, Himba Tribe in dailing activities.

African village landscape scene, young woman in traditional tribal dress with child

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