An initiation ceremony on one of the Torres Straits Islands
Dayak, Dyak or Dayuh women of Borneo, south east Asia, dancing with human heads
Sinhalese Devil Dancers on the island of Sri Lanka, Asia
A woman of the Roro tribe from Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, decorated for a ceremonial dance
A skull preserved and decorated and used for divination on the Torres Straits Islands, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
Fire-walking ceremony on Beqa Island, Fiji
The Mask-House of a secret society, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
A war dance by natives of Kimberley Region, western Australia
Cock fighting on the island of Borneo
Siamese ballet dancers portraying the flight of angels dance
String games of Northern Queensland and Torres Straits Aborigines, Australia
An avenging expedition by a northern tribe of Central Australia
A Dayak, Dyak or Dayuh man from the island of Borneo, seen here in gala costume
Reproduction of a totem shrine on one of the Torres Straits Islands, Melanesia
Death custom
Woman wearing full mourning costume made of grass, Melanesia, Oceania
A death chair from Koita, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
Smoked and shrunken human heads from the island of Bornea, Malaysia
An elaborately decorated mortuary shrine on one of the Solomon Islands, Oceania
Members of the Warramunga tribe, Australia, preparing a ground drawing for a totemic ceremony
A Lirong warrior of the Baram District, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia
A native of Borneo in war costume
Masks possessing magical qualities worn by people from a district of New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea
A long-voyage sailing boat used by the people from The Hermit Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
Initiation on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia as shown in a 19th century photograph
The Bora Ceremony of eastern Australia
A corroboree, an event where Australian Aborigines interact with the Dreamtime through dance, music and costume
A Totemic Ceremony of the Warramunga tribe, Australia
Natives of The Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain, Papua New Guinea, wearing spirit masks
Malformation of the ears
Sacrificial custom
Tibetan dancers
The national dance of the Baloch or Baluch people, Balochistan or Baluchistan, Iran
Baroda nautch girls
Nautch girls and musicians
A tattooed Japanese man in the 19th century
The Yamaboko Junk? parade, part of the Gion Festival celebrated every 17th and 24th July in Kyoto, Japan
A masked dancer of a Duk-Duk secret society
Artificial deformation
Objects important in Australian Aborigine ceremonies
People of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, south east Asia, worshipping at a pagoda
Christmas queen tradition in South America
Female Spanish dancer
ALASKA: POTLATCH DANCERS.
Elephants fighting
A Maori Chief from New Zealand
A Chinese death ceremony involving men dressed as a dragon which tries to devour an golden orb representing the sun
Burmese princess
Three Swiss girls
Woman of Hawaii
A chief of the Roro tribe from Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, decorated for a ceremonial dance
Mourning Custom of members of a northern tribe of central Australia
Arab singer with her tambourine
Solomon Islands woman in native dress
The body of the late King Chulalonkorn
Chinese wedding costume in the 19th century
Tribal chief funeral on New Caledonia, 19th century
The cremation of a Burmese monk or pongyi, on a funeral pyre made of bamboo with a framework covered with gold paper and tinsel in the 19th century
New Guinea warrior dance, 18th century
Samburu tribal dance
A woman from western Tibet wearing traditional dress
Elaborately tattooed Japanese man
Tuareg woman
Penal custom
A head dress worn by a member of the Roro tribe from Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
The Maori method of greeting by pressing noses
A Kenyah woman from Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia, with distended ear lobes
Dancers of the Fly River Region, Papua New Guinea, Oceania in typical traditional costume
An Aztec dancer during a ceremony in the Zocalo in Mexico City.
Natives of Yap
Samoan Chief in full ceremonial costume
Maori lady in full dress
Maori girl with matting dress
King and Queen of Prince of Wales Island
Queensland natives carrying spears and shields
Korean noble in full dress
Kachin woman
Burmese lady
Royal priest, Siam
Lady of Kashmir
Hindu marriage ceremony
Native bullock-cart
Native cart, Benares
Dravidian girls, Madras Presidency
Ressaldar of the 16th Bengal Cavalry
Syrian man in full costume
Rabbi of Jerusalem
Syrian girl at a spring
Mulolo Congo warrior and his wife
Zulu chief Bantu
Patagonian dancers, 19th century
Young woman of Fiji
Two Ainu men in dug-out canoe
Ainu man and wife
Group of Andamanese
Warriors from The Gilbert Islands, Pacific Ocean
“Dance to the Widow of a Warrior”, Tribe Unknown, Book Illustration from “Indian Horrors or Massacres of the Red Men”, by Henry Davenport Northrop, 1891
PUEBLO NATIVE AMERICAN DANCE.
Christmas queen tradition in South America, 1860s
Hamer man with reed whip
Snake Dancer and "Hugger", Moki Tribe, Arizona, 1921
Niman Kachina Dance, Supawlavi, Hopi Village, Arizona, USA, 1900
KWAKIUTL MASK.
Native American torch dance, illustration
Indian Sun Dance, Young Bucks Proving their Endurance by Self-Torture, by Jules Tavernier, Harper's Weekly, January 2, 1875
Ndebele dance stick or wand. Made with beads and straw.
ZUNI: SHALAKO DANCE, c1898.
ZUNI: SHALAKO DANCERS, c1898.
ALGONQUIANS, 1585.
ALGONQUIAN NATIVE AMERICANS.
NATIVE AMERICAN BOWL.
Solomon Islands people, 18th century
Tasmanian man, 1860s
The annual festival of the village goddess of Periyapalayam, Tamil Nadu State, India
19th Century New Caledonian village, illustration
MAORI: WAR DANCE.
ESKIMO DANCE MASK.
Hopi katsina doll.
Kischi Dance of the Marutse, Southern Africa, Illustration, 1885
Devil dance
Devil dance of Ceylon
Arab woman
Native of Tweed River
Three Burmese girls
Chinese lady of high rank
Chinese woman
Opium smoker
Chinese woman with bound foot
Woman of Manchuria
Two Chinese mandarins
Chinese mother with nurse and children
Family group of Mongols, Kuldja
Group of Mongols
Chinese soldiers of Kuldja
Three Japanese girls
Two fair daughters of Japan
Elaborate Japanese headdress
Two Lamas of Nud
Women of Bethlehem
Water carriers, Antananarivo, Madagascar
South African medicine man
Native of the Oil River, Niger Coast Protectorate
Dahomeyan Amazons
Somali man and his wife
Ouled-Nail woman
Ouled-Nail woman, Biskra
Two Kabyle women, Algeria
Lapp child on reindeer
Family of Lapps
Norwegian girl in bridal dress
Hardanger peasant women
Swedish girl in bridal dress
South Austria peasant
Tyrolese girl
Swiss girl in bridal dress
Italian peasant girl in her wedding dress
Danish fishergirl
Belgian peasant woman and her draught dogs
English beauty
English girl
Welsh woman at her spinning wheel
Shetland crofter's home
Two old men of Skye
Irishwoman at her spinning wheel
Irish beauty
North American Indian in full dress
North American Indians prepared for a journey
Woman of Kiawa
Shahaptin chief
Zulu warrior
Abyssinian girl
Zulu girls hairdressing
Susa woman with her hair unplaited
Lendu woman
Egyptian fellah
Kabyle weavers and native loom, Northern Algeria
Male and female warriors of Dahomey
Kabyle children
Group of Kafir boys and girls dressed for a dance
Turkish woman in indoor costume
Montenegrin man
Bosnian falconers
Austrian girl in national costume
English cottage scene
Welsh cottage scene
Welsh woman with spinning wheel
Newhaven fishwife