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    • Making Adinka Cloth

    • Making Adinka Cloth

    • Traditional dress; teachers and students; Education

    • This Volunteer markets cloth and vegetable products, and also is setting up demonstration farms in the Ntonso area. Here he watches craftsmen make Adinka cloth. January, 1980
    • Agency Photos
    • Wedding Pictures

    • Wedding Pictures
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    • The main square in Ulaanbaatar, where many wedding parties come to have their pictures taken while dressed in their formal, traditional clothes.
    • Staff Photos
    • Formal Family Portrait

    • Formal Family Portrait
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    • A migratory farming family at their fall location. The three generation family lives together in this ger which included a wood stove, a solar panel for power, and a television that got one channel which brought them a favorite spectator sport -...
    • Staff Photos
    • Valle Shqiptare

    • Valle Shqiptare
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    • The National Folk Festival in Albania is held every 4-5 years in the southern city of Gjirokaster, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Hosted in the city's Ottoman era castle, Albanian performers from every district of the country as well as from abroad...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Custom Dance

    • Custom Dance
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    • In this dance picture notice the traditional finery: The breast plate made of clam shell with turtle shell design, banana fiber loincloth, bark cloth attached to the arm bands, shell headbands with feathers, leg rattles made from seeds of a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Custom Dance

    • Custom Dance
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    • Several times during the year the villages would celebrate a traditional event with custom dancing. The men would dress in their finest gear and dance around the dance circle to the beat of rattles tied to their ankles, dance sticks drumming the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Chris George, Sultanate of Oman

    • Chris George, Sultanate of Oman
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    • This photograph of Chris (on the left against the back wall) meeting with Omanis was taken by a Volunteer while on a field trip in Oman. Also in the photo is Abdulla from 1977-79. Three men were Peace Corps Volunteers with the Department of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Gringo Tsachi

    • Gringo Tsachi
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    • This photo was taken in April of 2010 in the Tsa'chila village of El Poste, Ecuador. Here, I am dressed in traditional Tsa'chila attire with my host family in front of a garden we planted together. The garden sits between two new tourist huts we...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yi Teenage Boy

    • Yi Teenage Boy
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    • I lived in an area that was the capital of the Yi nationality. Although many Yi women are seen wearing traditional dress, it is less common to see the men in traditional dress. That's part of why I was so impressed with this boy's clothing. He...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Fiestas Patronales

    • Fiestas Patronales
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    • Every November the Catholic church in Cuisnahuat celebrates the Fiesta of San Lucas. Cuisnahuat is a traditional town where they still do dances with hand-carved masks to act out the story of San Lucas. These dancers are all me from the town and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Lisa in Guinea on Ramadan

    • Lisa in Guinea on Ramadan
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    • This picture was taken by my host sister in my village of Dinguiraye, Haute Guinea on the last day of Ramadan in 2008. It shows my host mom, "Mama Kadi" in her finest celebration clothes, and myself wearing a "bazin complet" dress and a veil that...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Young Kichwa Dancer

    • Young Kichwa Dancer
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    • This photo was taken on May 23, 2009 at a dance competition in Ecuador. Traditional Kichwa dances are performed at every public event in the Napo province and troupes are composed children of all ages. The dance steps describe traditional...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Home Visit at the Church

    • Home Visit at the Church
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    • While accompanying my companion on a visit to one of the 30 communities of San Bartolome Jocotenango, we encountered these two women at the unfinished church before we reached their house. The umbrella, instead of for protection from the rain, was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Todosanteros

    • Todosanteros
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    • Men in Todos Santos wear traditional clothing daily. The materials for the pants and shirts are produced within the municipality and the women spend months weaving the colorful, traditional collars for their shirts.
    • Volunteer Photos

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