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    • Mariachi Reception

    • Mariachi Reception

    • celebrations; music; traditional dress

    • 15 pots of mole sauce were made in preparation for this wedding in a small town in Mexico. The wedding and reception involved 2 small adjacent pueblitos and lasted almost 24 hours. Ultimately, over 800 people were fed a full dinner (cooked and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mexican Independence Day

    • Mexican Independence Day

    • celebrations; traditional dress

    • September 16 is a day of major celebration all over Mexico, commemorating Mexican Independence from Spanish rule. Fiestas are celebrated in all parts of Mexico, beginning September 15 with the “Grito de Delores” or battle cry for...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mourning in the Procession of Silence

    • Mourning in the Procession of Silence

    • celebrations; traditional dress; religion

    • Semana Santa (Holy Week) is celebrated all throughout Mexico, from large cities to small pueblitos. Holy Week (Palm Sunday to Easter Saturday), along with the following week of Pascua, is celebrated as a national holiday. On Good Friday of Semana...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Procession of Silence

    • Procession of Silence

    • celebrations; traditional dress; religion

    • Semana Santa (Holy Week) is celebrated all throughout Mexico, from large cities to small pueblitos. Holy Week (Palm Sunday to Easter Saturday), along with the following week of Pascua, is celebrated as a national holiday. On Good Friday of Semana...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Procession of Silence

    • Procession of Silence

    • celebrations; traditional dress; religion

    • Semana Santa (Holy Week) is celebrated all throughout Mexico, from large cities to small pueblitos. Holy Week (Palm Sunday to Easter Saturday), along with the following week of Pascua, is celebrated as a national holiday. On Good Friday of Semana...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Siva Afi

    • Siva Afi

    • Ceremonies; Host community friends; Traditional dress

    • Samoan Fire Knife Dancing. We were lucky enough to be in country for both the 7th and 8th Annual International Siva Afi competitions. Apia, Samoa
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Siva Afi

    • Siva Afi

    • Ceremonies; Host community friends; Traditional dress

    • Samoan Fire Knife Dancing. We were lucky enough to be in country for both the 7th and 8th Annual International Siva Afi competitions. Apia, Samoa
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Ava Ceremony

    • Ava Ceremony

    • Ceremonies; Host community friends; Traditional dress; Volunteers

    • Peace Corps Volunteers Aaron Cook and Cale Reeves participate in the welcome Ava Ceremony for new Peace Corps Country Director Dale Withington. 2008.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Facial Study of a Campesino Coop Member

    • Facial Study of a Campesino Coop Member

    • Host community friends; Traditional dress; Business development

    • Facial study of a Campesino member of a Rio Lindo, Honduras, Savings and Loan Coop in a perplexed moment at a committee meeting. Taken during a photo tour of Peace Corps Volunteer projects in the area. April, 1969.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Savalivali

    • Savalivali

    • Host community friends; Traditional dress; Terrain

    • "Savalivali means go for a walk." This is a line from a song taught to us by our language trainers. These village children are walking back from a hydro-electric plant. They play in the run-off as if it were a water park. Lalomauga, Samoa. 2007.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Samoan Independence Day

    • Samoan Independence Day

    • Host community; Traditional dress; Ceremonies

    • Students of Laumua o Punaoa dressed in traditional wear (though made out of modern materials) to perform at the Independence Day celebration in June 2009.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Gathering Mangos

    • Gathering Mangos

    • Host families; housing; traditional dress; Children; Volunteers

    • Volunteer Cale Reeves and his host brothers and sisters gather mangos thrown down by his host father in the tree above them. Lalomauga. 2007
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Macawiis

    • Macawiis

    • Traditional dress

    • I took this photo during home leave in April 2011. Depicted in this photo are myself, Daniel Delgadillo, and my two best friends who live in the U.S. This was the first time I had seen the two of them since I had joined Peace Corps so I decided to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sharing Kenyan Culture

    • Sharing Kenyan Culture

    • Traditional dress

    • In April 2011, I visited the Carden Traditional School and spoke to several groups of 6th through 8th grade students about Kenyan culture. In this picture, I am talking about one of the various attractions for visitors to see in Kenya. I am dressed...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • 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

    • Weddings; Traditional dress

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

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