A child from the Munduruku tribe rests in the auditorium of the Brazil’s Indian affairs bureau (FUNAI) headquarters while Munduruku Indians occupy the building in Brasilia on June 10, 2013. The Indians from the Amazon Basin are demonstrating against violations of indigenous rights and calling for the suspension of the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric plant on the Xingu, Teles Pires and Tapajos rivers.

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Altaic shaman (1927), Russian Museum of Ethnography

Nomades du soleil de Henry Brandt, Edition La Guilde du livre, Lausanne, 1956.

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CAPTION: SALVADOR DE BAHIA, BRAZIL – DECEMBER 10, 2009: Children playing in the stairs in one of the buildings of the abandonated chocolate factory, on December 10, 2009 in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. (Photo by Sebastian Liste/Reportage by Getty Images)

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KIVU - 2006: Mai-Mai warriors are members of the local population of the Democratic Republic of the Congo who have formed milita groups, predominantly to oppose any invading Rwandan forces or Congolese forces affiliated with Rwandans. They believe that they will be protected from death, and that no knife or bullet can kill them.

From Mai-Mai Warriors, by Stephan Gladieu

Swimming Elephants by Claudia Legge

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Kolam is a rangoli traditionally composed of geometric lines and shapes, drawn around a grid pattern of dots. It is drawn by south Indian women with rice or chalk powder in front of their homes. 

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Handbook of Papua and New Guinea (Third Edition), Edited by Judy Tudor, 1961.

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