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Traditional African Attire

Images showcasing Samburu and Pokot individuals in vibrant traditional clothing, celebrating cultural dances and ceremonies in East Africa.

Hamer Village, Ethiopia, Africa. Close-up portrait of Hamer warrior wearing ceremonial face paint and traditional beadwork. (Editorial Use Only)

Kenya, Laikipia, Ol Malo. A Samburu warrior sings and claps during a dance

Samburu Tribesman Loisaba Laikipia Kenya

A Pokot woman in traditional attire dances to celebrate an Atelo ceremony. Her broad belt is made with the metacarpus and metatarsal bones of dikdiks interspersed with beads.

Kenya, Samburu National Reserve, Samburu women in traditional dress (Large format sizes available)

Africa, Tanzania, A Datoga woman with a beaded hat worn on ceremonial occasions. The traditional attire of Datoga women include tanned and decorated leather dresses and coiled brass armbands.

Africa. Kenya. A young Samburu woman in colorful, traditional dress at a ceremony at Samburu NP.

A Pokot man wearing typical beaded ornaments of his tribe. The Pokot are pastoralists speaking a Southern Nilotic language. Kenya

A close-up of a Pokot woman's earrings, hairstyle and beaded ornaments. Only married women wear brass earrings and glass-beaded collars. The band over her head supports the weight of her heavy earrings.

AF, Kenya, Nanyuki Region. Samburu (Masai) Tribeman (Editorial Usage Only)

Hamer Village, Ethiopia, Africa. Close-up portrait of Hamer warrior wearing ceremonial face paint and traditional beadwork. (Editorial Use Only)

Kenya, Laikipia, Lewa Downs. A Maasai guide at Lewa Downs. (MR)

Masai or Moran warrior with traditional hearstyle Tanzania

Traditional dressed woman of the Jiye tribe, Eastern Equatoria State, South Sudan, Africa

Africa, Ethiopia, A Nyag'atom woman wears numerous strands of wooden beads and has decorated her braided hair with cowries backed onto leather.

Kenya, Laikipia, Lewa Downs. A Maasai guide at Lewa Downs. (MR)

A young married Pokot woman wearing the traditional beaded ornaments of her tribe which denote her married status. The Pokot are pastoralists speaking a Southern Nilotic language.

Samburu girls are given strings of beads by their fathers when they are still young. As soon as they are old enough to have lovers from the warrior age-set, they regularly receive gifts from them.

Kenya; Samburu warriors

Africa, Ethiopia, A Tsemay girl of southwest Ethiopia wears a leather skirt and bright beaded jewellery. She belongs to a small tribe living close to the Konso people.

Kenya, Laikipia, Ol Malo. Young Samburu girl dressed in her traditional beaded necklaces and headress at a dance.

Africa, Tanzania. Maasai native

A Samburu youth sings the lebarta, the Samburu circumcision song, just after he has been circumcised outside his mother's house. His ritual sponsors attend him before lifting him into the house for a rest. Boys are not allowed to show any sign of fear or pain.

Asia, Papua New Guinea. Mount Hagen cultural show. Young Simbu girl

A young Laikipiak Maasai girl.

Asia, Indonesia, Irian Jaya, Hghlands. Dani tribesman, traditional ceremonial garb (Editorial Usage Only)

Tribal portrait. The Bonda, also known as Remo, are a Munda ethnic group who live in the isolated hill regions of the Malkangiri district of southwestern Odisha, near the junction of the three states of Odisha, Chhattisgarh, and Andhra Pradesh. The tribe is one of the oldest and most primitive in mainland India; their culture has changed little for more than a thousand years. They are one of the 75 Primitive Tribal Groups identified by the Government of India.

AF, Kenya, Nanyuki Region. Samburu (Masai) Tribesmen

A Maasai schoolgirl sings during an inter schools song and dance competition at Magadi, Kenya

Gerewol Festival, Chad, Africa. Close-up portrait of young Wodaabe man performing at the festival in clay makeup and paint and dressed in fancy costume. (Editorial Use Only)

Africa, Tanzania. Maasai native

Pokot warriors attending a Sapana ceremony, put on their beaded ornaments prior to dancing.

Kenya, Tribal Peoples, Samburu Women In Traditional Clothing And Jewellery.

Pokot women sing and dance at the conclusion of a Sapana ceremony.

Kenya, Laikipia, Ol Malo. Samburu warriors sing, clap and dance in their traditional dress at a manyatta

Maasai People in the Masai Mara.

Maasai People in the Masai Mara.

A portrait of a woman dressed in the traditional clothes and decoration in the Omo Valley, Ethiopia.

A portrait of a woman dressed in the traditional clothes and decoration in the Omo Valley, Ethiopia.

Africa, Benin, Ganvie. Tofinu voodoo village on Lake Nokoue. Voodoo dancers.

Ethiopia, Lower Omo Valley, Tumi, 'Hamer Jumping Of The Bulls Initiation Ceremony, Ritual Dancing Round Cows And Bulls Before The Initiate Does The Jumping'

Africa, Ethiopia, Omo River Valley, South Omo, Hamer tribe. Detail of a Hamer man's necklace.

A proud Samburu mother wears a double string of alternate blue and white beads terminating in cowries for each son who is a warrior of the tribe. These strings are attached to her ear ornaments. At a glance, a visitor will know this woman has three warrior sons.

Africa, Tanzania, The finery of a Datoga woman.

Group, men, woman and children from the Mursi tribe, traditional dress, Ethiopia, Africa

Kitkung Nampaso, a Masai Warrior wearing Ostrich feather headdress as worn during Eunoto ceremonies signifying the final stages of warriorhood, Masai Mara, Kenya, Africa

Woman from the Suri (Surma) tribe with traditional clay lip plate, Omo region, Southwest Ethiopia; Kibish, Ethiopia

A young Maasai girl wears face paint and numerous beaded ornaments in preparation for a dance with warriors.

Africa, Kenya, Samburu National Reserve. Tribal handicrafts, jewelry.

A day in a Maasai Village as guests to view thier way of living. Maasai people preforming traditional dance.

Amboseli National Park, Kenya. Maasai woman welcome to village.

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

South Ethiopia, Omo region, among the Hamar tribe, Hamer, Hamma, Hammer, Amar or Amer, meeting for initiation rituals, ceremony, bull jumping, Ethiopia, Africa

Kenya, Masai Mara National Reserve, Masai (Maasai) and elephant tusk

Zulu in traditional dress, KwaZulu-Natal

Africa, Ethiopia, Turmi Region, Hamar Tribe

Africa, Ivory Coast, Boundiali. Ngoror dancer

ethiopia, omo valley, mursi tribe

Two Maasai tribesmen in traditional dress stand at the doorway of a mud house in Kenya

Africa, Kenya, Samburu National Reserve. Tribal handicrafts, jewelry.

Namibia, Africa: Elder Himba Woman

Masai woman in font of her manyata in savanna Tanzania

Scars and pantings on the back of a Surma warrior Ethiopia

Young Maasai warrior posing with traditional beaded adornments and a staff

Traditional tribal dance, Rwanda

Kenya, Laikipia, Ol Malo.

Africa. Kenya. A young Samburu woman in colorful, traditional dress at a ceremony at Samburu NP.

Gitega, Burundi. Traditional dancers perform at many local events, varying in style from district to district.

ethiopia, omo valley, mursi tribe, mago national park

Maasai warriors take enormous trouble over their appearance especially their long hair, which is braided, Ochred and decorated with beaded ornaments.

Kenya, Laikipia, Il Ngwesi, Masai man wearing traditional clothes and adorned with elaborate beadwork jewelry

Sudan, Tribal People, Dinka Binzar Or Witch Doctor Wearing Head-Dress Of Feathers On Ground In Trance Surrounded By Tribeswomen.

Himba people at Purros on Hoarusib R.

Ethiopia, Lower Omo Valley, Turmi, 'Hamer Jumping Of The Bulls Initiation Ceremony, Hamer Woman Walking To The Place Where The Bull Jumping Is Being Held. She Wears A Traditional Goat Skin Dress Decorated With Cowrie Shells, And Her Back Is Scarred From Ritual Flogging'

Dassanech dancers. Ethiopia, Africa.

Maasai elders playing the ancient African game of Bao.

Wodaabe-Bororo man with face painted at the annual Gerewol festival, courtship ritual competition among the Fulani ethnic group, Niger, Africa

Ndebele woman. Portrait. Botshabelo Historical village. Mpumalanga. South Africa

Kenya, Samburu National Reserve, Samburu man,

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

Mourning Himba women at a funeral, the widow in the middle, Omohanja, Kaokoland, Kunene, Namibia, Africa

Africa, Kenya, Samburu National Reserve. Tribal handicrafts, jewelry. (Editorial Use Only)

Ethiopia, Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples' Region, South Omo, Mursiland, Portrait of Priest (Komoru) of Nothern Mursi tribe; Maridungka vil...

A Borana man at Mega in southern Ethiopia wears a phallic Kallaacha on his forehead. Made of cast aluminium and ivory or bone, the Kallaacha is worn during the tribe's initiation and gada age-grade ceremonies. The pastoral Borana live either side of the southern Ethiopian/northern Kenya border and form a large and important group of the Oromo-speaking cluster of tribes.

Ghana, Near Accra, Women With Painted Bodies At An Ancestor Worship Ceremony

Member of a folklore group, presentation of traditional music and dance, Rhumsiki, Far North, Cameroon, Africa

Samburu tribesman with spear, Samburu National Reserve, Kenya (MR)

Pearl Bracelet Maasai Meru National Park Kenya

Young girls at the Gerewol festival, courtship ritual competition among the Woodaabe Fula people, Niger, Africa

Maasai near Lake Natron

Maasai man standing on top of rock

Maasai women wearing traditional dress and traditional jewellery, Massai Mara, Distrikt Narok, Serengeti, Rift Valley province, Kenya, Africa

Africa, Kenya, Maasai Mara. Demonstration of starting a fire.

Ethiopia, Omo Region, Kibish Village. Bologedung (Bulugedong), one of two main Suri (Surma) tribe chiefs with baboon hat and raincoat cape in his compound.

Africa, Ghana, Accra. La Palm Beach Hotel. Traditional West African folkloric show, ritual ceremony.

Africa Tribes people - culture

Maasai elders playing the ancient African game of Bao.

Africa, Tanzania. Maasai native

A Samburu youth, his head freshly shaved, has milk poured over him from a wooden gourd-like container decorated with green grass prior to his circumcision. Milk and green grass are blessings to these pastoral people and feature in all important ceremonies.

Surma woman placing her lip plate Ethiopia

Maasai woman wearing traditional neck jewlery, Arusha, Tanzania, Africa

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