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Man with sword and straw hat, JapanVintage 19th century photograph - early photographic portrait from Japan, probably the work of the Japanese photographer Shimooka Renjo - man with sword and straw hat
Caucasus Georgia Tiflis Tblisi - vegetable shop Chaldean cuCaucasus Georgia Tiflis Tblisi - vegetable shop and a Chaldean customer. Vintage 19th century photograph
Caucasus Georgia - members of Caucasian highland tribeCaucasus Georgia - members of a Caucasian highland tribe. Vintage 19th century photograph
Snake charmer, Tangier, Morocco. Vintage 19th century photograph
Eskimos in the snow on a Christmas cardEskimos in the snow with igloo and reindeer on a Christmas card with an ornate white and gold border. Date: circa 1890s
Maori woman, New Zealand. Date: circa 1890s
Family of the Tho ethnic group, Lang Son, VietnamSeveral Generations of a family of the Tho ethnic group (also Keo, Mon, Cuoi, Ho, Tay Poong) from Lang Son (Lang Son Province)
Fulani village, Ghana, Gold Coast, West AfricaFulani village, part of Cape Coast, Ghana, Gold Coast, West Africa. The Fulani, described here as desert tribes from the Sahara, imported their own style of building. Date: circa 1924
Shilluk warrior, South SudanA Shilluk (Chollo) warrior in an ornate headdress, near the River Nile, South Sudan. Shilluks are typically tall and slim, and wear a variety of ornaments. Date: 1936
Burkina Faso (Upper Volta) Toucouleurs (Fula) WomanA Fula (Toucouleurs) Woman from Bukina Faso (Upper Volta), a landlocked country in West Africa. Date: circa 1920s
Merv - Turkmenistan - Turkomen selling sweets at marketTurkmenistan - Turkomen selling sweets at market andria and Antiochia in Margiana - a major oasis-city in Central Asia, on the historical Silk Road, located near todays Mary in Turkmenistan
A Kabyle musician with her Tam-Tam. Algeria, North AfricaA female Kabyle musician sits cross-legged holding her Tam-Tam (a type of gong). The Kabyle are a Berber ethnic group originating from Kabilya in Northern Algeria. Date: circa 1910s
Native Indians, Guatemala, Central AmericaNative Mayan Indians (K iche), in the town of Chichicastenango (also known as Santo Tomas), Guatemala, Central America. Date: circa 1908
Smoke Signal Statue, Pioneer Park, Lincoln, Nebraska, USASmoke Signal Statue, dedicated to the Nebraska Indian, Pioneer Park, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. Date: 1941
Five children on a roundabout in a park. Date: circa 1960s
Uighurs dancing, Xinjiang, north west ChinaUighurs performing their national dance, Xinjiang, north west China. Date: 1953
Batak girls of Sumatra, IndonesiaA group of Batak girls of Sumatra, Indonesia. Date: circa 1920s
Woman with alligator, Chipperfields CircusWoman with an alligator in a cage, a Chipperfields Circus act. Date: circa 1964
Fijian troops for the Front, WW1A detachment of native Fijian soldiers of the Imperial Forces posing in camp (presumably in Britain somewhere) with their British officer. Date: 1914
Whatas or Patukas - Maori Food Storehouses. They are elevated from the ground by posts, to protect their contents from rats. Top left is an ordinary patuka for holding seeds
New Zealand Maori Ornaments and Decorations. They are an ear ornament, real or imitation teeth, grotesque figures (tiki), earrings, a tail feather, a shell, wooden combs, a fly catcher
African Tribe - Central Africa Date: circa 1900
Maori group, New Zealand. Date: circa 1890s
Indigenous Selk nam Indian, Punta Arenas, Patagonia, ChileIndigenous Selk nam Indian of Punta Arenas, Patagonia, Magallanes and Antartica Chilena, Chile - toward the southernmost point on the South American mainland
Indigenous Selk nam Indians, Punta Arenas, Patagonia, ChileIndigenous Selk nam Indian Woman of Punta Arenas, Patagonia, Magallanes and Antartica Chilena, Chile - toward the southernmost point on the South American mainland, pictured with her laden horse
Syrian Turks - Aleppo, SyriaSyrian Turks (Turks in Syria, Syrian Turkoman or Syrian Turkmen) - Syrian citizens of Turkish descent, living in the Syrian provinces of the Ottoman Empire before its dissolution
The Cotton Harvest at Bondoukou, Ivory CoastThe Cotton Harvest at Bondoukou (Bonduku, Bontuku) a town in the Bondoukou Department of Ivory Coast, located in the Zanzan Region. Date: circa 1910s
Bamum Woman - Cameroon - Extensive back scarificationA Bamum Woman and child from Cameroon, Central Africa, showing dramatic and extensive back scarification in regular patterns. Date: circa early 1930s
Ainu Couple - JapanThe Ainu (also called Aynu, Aino and in historical texts Ezo) - indigenous people or groups in Japan (Hokkaido) and Russia (Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands). Ainu men often wear heavy beards
Congo - Women from the Kasai regionDemocratic Republic of Congo - Women from Kasai. Date: circa 1901
Vietnam - Musicians of the Mois (Binh Thuan Province). The Mountain People ( Mois is actually a derogatory term) are The Degar, also known as the Montagnard
Kabardin Woman - GeorgiaA Woman of the Kabarda or Kabard (terms referring to a people of the northern Caucasus more commonly known by the plural term Kabardin)
Tunusic Shaman from Turukhansk, Siberia, RussiaAmong the Tungusic peoples of Siberia, shamanism is widespread. This picture shows a Shaman from Turukhansk, a village (selo) in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Eastern Siberia
Myanmar - Girls from Kachin StateTwo ethnic Kachin Girls from the Northern Kachin State in Myanmar (formerly Burma). Date: circa 1910s
Seminole Indian - Billy Bowlegs IIIBilly Bowlegs III, Billy Fewell, aka Cofehapkee (18621965) - a Seminole elder (also of African-American descent). A tribal historian in Florida. Date: circa 1890s
Swahili People of TanzaniaGroup of Swahili people - a Bantu ethnic group and culture found in East Africa. This group come from Tanzania (formerly German East Africa). Date: circa 1910s
Wild Men (Veddahs) - Sri LankaWild Men (Veddahs or Veddas) - Sri Lanka. The pure Veddhas, are related to the Austro-Asiatic peoples found scattered today in many parts of southern Asia
Nivkh People - Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, RussiaThe Nivkh - an indigenous ethnic group inhabiting the northern half of Sakhalin Island and the region of the Amur River estuary in Russias Khabarovsk Krai near Nikolayevsk-on-Amur in Far Eastern
People from Dobruja, RomaniaPeople from Dobruja (or Dobrudja / Dobrudzha / Dobrogea) - a historical region shared by Bulgaria and Romania, located between the lower Danube River and the Black Sea, including the Danube Delta
Altay - RussiaThe Altay or Altai are an ethnic group of Turkic people living in the Siberian Altai Republic and Altai Krai and surrounding areas of Tuva and Mongolia. circa 1910s
Egypt - Bicharin encampment. The Bisharin are a Sunni Muslim tribe of the Beja nomadic ethnic group who live in the eastern part of the Nubian Desert in Sudan and southern Egypt. Date: circa 1904
Bhutia Woman, Sikkim, IndiaA Woman from the ethnic Tibetan Bhutia tribe from Sikkim, a landlocked Indian state nestled in the Himalayas. Date: circa 1908
Character from Il Trovatore -- AzucenaDepiction of the character Azucena from Verdis grand opera Il Trovatore (The Troubador), first performed in Rome in 1853. The gipsy woman Azucena (a mezzo-soprano or contralto role)
Maori meeting house, Kaitaia, North Island, New ZealandA traditional Maori meeting house (or Marae) at Kaitaia, near Pukepoto, in the far north of the North Island, New Zealand. It is decorated with distinctive red carvings
Maori carving, Coromandel, North Island, New ZealandA Maori carving over the entrance to a Marae (meeting place or house) in Kennedy Bay, Coromandel, North Island, New Zealand
Heligoland IslandHeligoland - a small German archipelago in the North Sea. Formerly Danish and British possessions, the islands (population 1)
Gabon - Africa - Woman with ScarificationA Woman from Sibiti, Gabon - part of the Bakota (or Kota) - a Bantu ethnic group from the northeastern region of the country
Wheeled tents of the Tartars or Tatars, RussiaWheeled tents of the Tartars or Tatars, a Turkic ethnic group in Russia