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  • The annual Christmas nativity scene entitled Christmas Crib by the artist Tomoaki Suzuki and located in Trafalgar Square, attracts interest from onlookers, on 13th December 2019, in London, England.
    christmas_nativity-16-13-12-2019.jpg
  • The annual Christmas nativity scene entitled Christmas Crib by the artist Tomoaki Suzuki and located in Trafalgar Square, attracts interest from onlookers, on 13th December 2019, in London, England.
    christmas_nativity-11-13-12-2019.jpg
  • A holy nativity scene titled Christmas Crib by the artist Tomoaki Suzuki with background tourists in London's Trafalgar Square. As three girls all climb together the plinth that is below Nelson's comumn, encased within a transparent perspex box are the pilgrims who are apparently paying their respects to the infant Jesus in that famous Christian religious event. The new crib was commissioned in 2006 by St Martin-in-the-Fields providing a significant new public art work embodies characters representing different ethnicities - Middle eastern, Caucasian, African and Asian. The 11 painted lime wood carving are 40% life-size and were a collaboration with fashion designer Jessica Ogden who created timeless silk costumes for each of the characters.
    nativity_people14-12-12-2011.jpg
  • A holy nativity scene titled Christmas Crib by the artist Tomoaki Suzuki with background tourists in London's Trafalgar Square. Juxtaposed under the Angel Gabriel are a man's legs who is actually hauling himself up on to a plinth of Nelson's comumn. Encased within a transparent perspex box are the pilgrims who are apparently paying their respects to the infant Jesus in that famous Christian religious event. The new crib was commissioned in 2006 by St Martin-in-the-Fields providing a significant new public art work embodies characters representing different ethnicities - Middle eastern, Caucasian, African and Asian. The 11 painted lime wood carving are 40% life-size and were a collaboration with fashion designer Jessica Ogden who created timeless silk costumes for each of the characters.
    nativity_scene01-19-12-2013_1_1.jpg
  • A holy nativity scene titled Christmas Crib by the artist Tomoaki Suzuki with background acrobat in London's Trafalgar Square. On the far left is a self-styled acrobat balances on two hands on an upper plinth of Nelson's column while encased within a transparent perspex box are the pilgrims who are apparently paying their respects to the infant Jesus in that famous Christian religious event. The new crib was commissioned in 2006 by St Martin-in-the-Fields providing a significant new public art work embodies characters representing different ethnicities - Middle eastern, Caucasian, African and Asian. The 11 painted lime wood carving are 40% life-size and were a collaboration with fashion designer Jessica Ogden who created timeless silk costumes for each of the characters.
    nativity_people18-13-12-2011.jpg
  • Seen through a stage star and the branches of a Christmas tree, two four year-old girls look excited during their playgroup's Christmas nativity play in a local church. It is a few weeks before Christmas and the local children have come to act out the Christian message of Jesus' birth by taking on roles of all the central characters plus those of the stable animals, three kings and angels who wear white gowns and tinsel in hair and around waists. This girls happy to be on stage in front of so many mums and dads.
    nativity_angels-19-12-1999_1.jpg
  • A four year-old look unhappy and a little nervous during their playgroup's Christmas nativity play in a local church. It is a few weeks before Christmas and the local children have come to act out the Christian message of Jesus' birth by taking on roles of all the central characters plus those of the stable animals, three kings and angels who wear white gowns and tinsel in hair and around waists. This girl looks both nervous and worried about being on stage in front of so many mums and dads and is about to all get on top of her.
    nativity_angel-19-12-1998_1.jpg
  • To mark the UN International Migrants Day on 18th December 2020, Folkestone community members staged a Nativity scene with Jesus, Mary and Joseph arriving as refugees onto the harbour beach on the 12th of December 2020 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. Although they were dressed as Mary and Joseph and appeared to have the baby Jesus with them, they were in fact Rishan and Grmalem, an Ambassador and a Trainee with Kent Refugee Action Network. Both are Christians and refugees from Eritrea. Whilst Jesus was, in fact a doll.
    UK-Migrant-Solidarity-1388.jpg
  • To mark the UN International Migrants Day on 18th December 2020, Folkestone community members staged a Nativity scene with Jesus, Mary and Joseph arriving as refugees on the harbour beach in 12th of December 2020 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. As they arrived onto the beach a small group of local people welcomed them ashore with blankets and hot drinks and shelter from the rain.
    UK-Migrant-Solidarity-1284.jpg
  • To mark the UN International Migrants Day on 18th December 2020, Folkestone community members staged a Nativity scene with Jesus, Mary and Joseph arriving as refugees onto the harbour beach on the 12th of December 2020 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. Although they were dressed as Mary and Joseph and appeared to have the baby Jesus with them, they were in fact Rishan and Grmalem, an Ambassador and a Trainee with Kent Refugee Action Network. Both are Christians and refugees from Eritrea. Whilst Jesus was, in fact a doll.
    UK-Migrant-Solidarity-1378.jpg
  • To mark the UN International Migrants Day on 18th December 2020, Folkestone community members staged a Nativity scene with Jesus, Mary and Joseph arriving as refugees onto the harbour beach on the 12th of December 2020 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. Although they were dressed as Mary and Joseph and appeared to have the baby Jesus with them, they were in fact Rishan and Grmalem, an Ambassador and a Trainee with Kent Refugee Action Network. Both are Christians and refugees from Eritrea. Whilst Jesus was, in fact a doll.
    UK-Migrant-Solidarity-1359.jpg
  • To mark the UN International Migrants Day on 18th December 2020, Folkestone community members staged a Nativity scene with Jesus, Mary and Joseph arriving as refugees onto the harbour beach on the 12th of December 2020 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. Although they were dressed as Mary and Joseph and appeared to have the baby Jesus with them, they were in fact Rishan and Grmalem, an Ambassador and a Trainee with Kent Refugee Action Network. Both are Christians and refugees from Eritrea. Whilst Jesus was, in fact a doll.
    UK-Migrant-Solidarity-1354.jpg
  • To mark the UN International Migrants Day on 18th December 2020, Folkestone community members staged a Nativity scene with Jesus, Mary and Joseph arriving as refugees on the harbour beach in 12th of December 2020 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. As they arrived onto the beach a small group of local people welcomed them ashore with blankets and hot drinks and shelter from the rain.
    UK-Migrant-Solidarity-1327.jpg
  • To mark the UN International Migrants Day on 18th December 2020, Folkestone community members staged a Nativity scene with Jesus, Mary and Joseph arriving as refugees on the harbour beach in 12th of December 2020 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. As they arrived onto the beach a small group of local people welcomed them ashore with blankets and hot drinks and shelter from the rain.
    UK-Migrant-Solidarity-1317.jpg
  • To mark the UN International Migrants Day on 18th December 2020, Folkestone community members staged a Nativity scene with Jesus, Mary and Joseph arriving as refugees on the harbour beach in 12th of December 2020 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. As they arrived onto the beach a small group of local people welcomed them ashore with blankets and hot drinks and shelter from the rain.
    UK-Migrant-Solidarity-1214.jpg
  • To mark the UN International Migrants Day on 18th December 2020, Folkestone community members staged a Nativity scene with Jesus, Mary and Joseph arriving as refugees in a RHIB boat into the harbour on the 12th of December 2020 in Folkestone, United Kingdom.  Although they were dressed as Mary and Joseph and appeared to have the baby Jesus with them, they were in fact Rishan and Grmalem, an Ambassador and a Trainee with Kent Refugee Action Network. Both are Christians and refugees from Eritrea. Whilst Jesus was, in fact a doll.
    UK-Migrant-Solidarity-1197.jpg
  • To mark the UN International Migrants Day on 18th December 2020, Folkestone community members staged a Nativity scene with Jesus, Mary and Joseph arriving as refugees in a RHIB boat into the harbour on the 12th of December 2020 in Folkestone, United Kingdom.  Although they were dressed as Mary and Joseph and appeared to have the baby Jesus with them, they were in fact Rishan and Grmalem, an Ambassador and a Trainee with Kent Refugee Action Network. Both are Christians and refugees from Eritrea. Whilst Jesus was, in fact a doll.
    UK-Migrant-Solidarity-1193.jpg
  • To mark the UN International Migrants Day on 18th December 2020, Folkestone community members staged a Nativity scene with Jesus, Mary and Joseph arriving as refugees in a RHIB boat into the harbour on the 12th of December 2020 in Folkestone, United Kingdom.  Although they were dressed as Mary and Joseph and appeared to have the baby Jesus with them, they were in fact Rishan and Grmalem, an Ambassador and a Trainee with Kent Refugee Action Network. Both are Christians and refugees from Eritrea. Whilst Jesus was, in fact a doll.
    UK-Migrant-Solidarity-1187.jpg
  • A holy nativity scene titled Christmas Crib by the artist Tomoaki Suzuki with background tourists in London's Trafalgar Square. Encased within a transparent perspex box are the pilgrims who are apparently paying their respects to the infant Jesus in that famous Christian religious event. The new crib was commissioned in 2006 by St Martin-in-the-Fields providing a significant new public art work embodies characters representing different ethnicities - Middle eastern, Caucasian, African and Asian. The 11 painted lime wood carvings are 40% life-size and were a collaboration with fashion designer Jessica Ogden who created timeless silk costumes for each of the characters.
    trafalgar_nativity06-09-12-2015_1.jpg
  • A holy nativity scene titled Christmas Crib by the artist Tomoaki Suzuki with background tourists in London's Trafalgar Square. One of the kings points up to the sky, perhaps to the star or to Heaven. Encased within a transparent perspex box are the pilgrims who are apparently paying their respects to the infant Jesus in that famous Christian religious event. The new crib was commissioned in 2006 by St Martin-in-the-Fields providing a significant new public art work embodies characters representing different ethnicities - Middle eastern, Caucasian, African and Asian. The 11 painted lime wood carvings are 40% life-size and were a collaboration with fashion designer Jessica Ogden who created timeless silk costumes for each of the characters.
    trafalgar_nativity01-09-12-2015_1.jpg
  • Christmas nativity scene in Lat village, Lam Dong province, The Central Highlands, Vietnam
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  • Interior of a Nativity scene, set up in Church of England denomination Shrewsbury Abbey in Shrewsbury, United Kingdom. The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Shrewsbury is an ancient foundation in Shrewsbury, the county town of Shropshire, England. The Abbey was founded in 1083 as a Benedictine monastery by the Norman Earl of Shrewsbury, Roger de Montgomery.
    20190102_shrewsbury abbey_001.jpg
  • A wall display showing the Christian Nativity in a restaurant on Bethlehem Square on 1st April 2016 in Bethlehem, West Bank. During the Palestine Marathon, thousands of runners, both professional and amateur come from across the globe to take part in the Right to Movement event.
    SM_Bethlehem015.jpg
  • As bright sunlight fills a bare studio room, and a wooden cross is propped up in the corner, Paula Douthett (left) and three other members of the evangelical Sacred Dance Ministry (Group) perform a moment from the biblical nativity scene in her house at Milbourne St Andrew, Dorset, England. Together they are acting as part of the International Christian Dance Fellowship whose performers include performers, choreographers and teachers of all styles of dance technique, as well as those who dance in worship, intercession, healing, evangelism and prophetic interpretation. In the middle, a lady pretends to be holding the baby Jesus while the others play the roles of angels as they express wonder and admiration for this miraculous moment.
    uk_evangelists02-25-04-1986_1_1.jpg
  • The Church of St. Catherine in Bethlehem Square on 1st April 2016 in Bethlehem, West Bank. During the Palestine Marathon, thousands of runners, both professional and amateur come from across the globe to take part in the Right to Movement event.
    SM_Bethlehem010.jpg
  • British-born Flight Nurse Barbara Thompson listens to a Native American patient’s breathing in the ER at the San Carlos Apache reservation hospital. British-born Barbara has worked as a nurse in the UK and US for 20 years and listens to her patient’s lungs with a stethoscope as they poor lady lays back on a gurney with an oxygen line to help her difficulties. San Carlos is a 1.8m acre area of scrub and tiny settlements 100 miles east of Phoenix, Arizona with an 11,000 population, its hospital attracting patients from a radius of 20 miles. By flying her she can have far better specialist care at the Indian Medical Center in Phoenix than can be provided in San Carlos who have only a few doctors and four beds. Native American Air Ambulance (NAAA) is the brainchild of Okalahoma native Cherokee Rick Heape Williams.
    native_american01-16-08-1998.jpg
  • Native, Tapiete indians hold out their fishing nets along the Pilcomayo river on the border between Paraguay and Bolivia. They normally wade into the river and scoop up the fish in a sustainable way.
    cp_par_0290_1.jpg
  • An elderly Apache lady patient receives specialist care from a dedicated air ambulance service for Arizonas Native Americans, on 25th August 1998, at Phoenix Native American reservation Hospital, Arizona, USA.
    native_american-25-08-1998_1.jpg
  • In a small village live  a tiny community of native (aboriginal) people known as AGTAS. Seen here is Borseg Lisiday and his wife Batangas and their extended family, Gumacas bay, Philippines
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  • An elderly Apache lady patient receives specialist care from a dedicated air ambulance service for Arizonas Native Americans, on 25th August 1998, at Phoenix Native American reservation Hospital, Arizona, USA.
    native_american-25-08-1998.jpg
  • A community of AGTAS (aboriginal natives, similar to pigmies walk through Busok Busok on their way to a day of fishing for crabs, in Gumacas bay, Aurora, Philippines
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  • AGTAS (Aboriginal natives, related to  pigmies) hunt fish with home made harpoons and coconut carved goggles in Gumacas bay, Aurora, Philippines
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  • AGTAS (Aboriginal natives, related to  pigmies) hunt fish with home made harpoons and coconut carved goggles in Gumacas bay, Aurora, Philippines
    0045ph_1.jpg
  • Loading a patient bound for hospital for treatment, on to a British Aerospace BAe-3101 Jetstream 31, an air ambulance on the runway at San Carlos Apache reservation in Arizona, USA. Native American Air Services, provides critical care level air ambulance services in Arizona. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Mesa, Arizona. The San Carlos Reservation is one of the poorest Native American communities in the United States, with an annual median household income of approximately $14,000 in 2000, according to the US Census. About 60% of the people live under the poverty line, and 68% of the active labor force is unemployed
    san_carlos02-07-01-2000.jpg
  • A flight nurse examines a lady from the Native American Reserve at San Carlos, Arizona, from where she is to be taken from the rural Arizona airstrip by  twin-propeller powered aircraft, an air ambulance, to hospital for treatment. The San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, in southeastern Arizona, United States, was established in 1872 as a reservation for the Chiricahua Apache tribe. It was referred to by some as "Hell's Forty Acres," due to a myriad of dismal health and environmental conditions. The San Carlos Reservation is one of the poorest Native American communities in the United States, with an annual median household income of approximately $14,000 in 2000, according to the US Census. About 60% of the people live under the poverty line, and 68% of the active labor force is unemployed
    san_carlos01-07-01-2000_1.jpg
  • Two women wearing Native American headdresses on the riverside walkway. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
    20140514_south bank indian headdress...jpg
  • A Red Squirrel, clinging to the side of a tree on the edge of the Presaddfed Estate, the home of Anglesey Shooting School, on the 22nd of February 2020,  Bodedern, Anglesey. Wales.  Anglesey is a haven for the native Red Squirrel, Anglesey is an island and has become a conservation area for the re-introduction of red squirrels, any grey squirrel found on the island is caught and removed.
    UK-Wales-Nature-Red-Squirrel-5094.jpg
  • Green parakeets in St Jamess Park wait for tourists to feed them in London, United Kingdom. Feral parakeets in Great Britain are an introduced species into Great Britain. The population consists of rose-ringed parakeets, a non-migratory species of bird that is native to Africa and the Indian Subcontinent. The origins of these birds are subject to speculation, but they are generally thought to have bred from birds that escaped from captivity.
    20190405_feeding the parakeets_002.jpg
  • A Red Squirrel collecting nuts from a feeding station attached to the side of a tree on the edge of the Presaddfed Estate, the home of Anglesey Shooting School, on the 22nd of February 2020,  Bodedern, Anglesey. Wales.  Anglesey is a haven for the native Red Squirrel, Anglesey is an island and has become a conservation area for the re-introduction of red squirrels, any grey squirrel found on the island is caught and removed.
    UK-Wales-Nature-Red-Squirrel-5118.jpg
  • A Red Squirrel collecting nuts from a feeding station attached to the side of a tree on the edge of the Presaddfed Estate, the home of Anglesey Shooting School, on the 22nd of February 2020,  Bodedern, Anglesey. Wales.  Anglesey is a haven for the native Red Squirrel, Anglesey is an island and has become a conservation area for the re-introduction of red squirrels, any grey squirrel found on the island is caught and removed.
    UK-Wales-Nature-Red-Squirrel-5129.jpg
  • A Red Squirrel, clinging to the side of a tree on the edge of the Presaddfed Estate, the home of Anglesey Shooting School, on the 22nd of February 2020,  Bodedern, Anglesey. Wales.  Anglesey is a haven for the native Red Squirrel, Anglesey is an island and has become a conservation area for the re-introduction of red squirrels, any grey squirrel found on the island is caught and removed.
    UK-Wales-Nature-Red-Squirrel-5096.jpg
  • Tourists feeding the green parakeets in St Jamess Park in London, United Kingdom. Feral parakeets in Great Britain are an introduced species into Great Britain. The population consists of rose-ringed parakeets, a non-migratory species of bird that is native to Africa and the Indian Subcontinent. The origins of these birds are subject to speculation, but they are generally thought to have bred from birds that escaped from captivity.
    20190405_feeding the parakeets_003.jpg
  • Green parakeets in St Jamess Park wait for tourists to feed them in London, United Kingdom. Feral parakeets in Great Britain are an introduced species into Great Britain. The population consists of rose-ringed parakeets, a non-migratory species of bird that is native to Africa and the Indian Subcontinent. The origins of these birds are subject to speculation, but they are generally thought to have bred from birds that escaped from captivity.
    20190405_feeding the parakeets_006.jpg
  • Green parakeets in St Jamess Park wait for tourists to feed them in London, United Kingdom. Feral parakeets in Great Britain are an introduced species into Great Britain. The population consists of rose-ringed parakeets, a non-migratory species of bird that is native to Africa and the Indian Subcontinent. The origins of these birds are subject to speculation, but they are generally thought to have bred from birds that escaped from captivity.
    20190405_feeding the parakeets_005.jpg
  • Tourists feeding the green parakeets in St Jamess Park in London, United Kingdom. Feral parakeets in Great Britain are an introduced species into Great Britain. The population consists of rose-ringed parakeets, a non-migratory species of bird that is native to Africa and the Indian Subcontinent. The origins of these birds are subject to speculation, but they are generally thought to have bred from birds that escaped from captivity.
    20190405_feeding the parakeets_004.jpg
  • Tourists feeding the green parakeets in St Jamess Park in London, United Kingdom. Feral parakeets in Great Britain are an introduced species into Great Britain. The population consists of rose-ringed parakeets, a non-migratory species of bird that is native to Africa and the Indian Subcontinent. The origins of these birds are subject to speculation, but they are generally thought to have bred from birds that escaped from captivity.
    20190405_feeding the parakeets_001.jpg
  • A fine example of the common beech tree lit by the sunrise against a blue sky. Folkestone, Kent.  the Beech tree is a deciduous tree native to Europe.
    UK-Beech-Tree-3591.jpg
  • A fine example of the common beech tree lit by the sunrise against a blue sky. Folkestone, Kent.  the Beech tree is a deciduous tree native to Europe.
    UK-Beech-Tree-3562.jpg
  • A detail of freshly-picked English oysters opened using a 'shucker' knife. English Falmouth Estuary oysters have become highly sought-after around European restaurants and we see a freshly-caught specimen still in its shell after being landed from a traditional Falmouth antique working sail boat (fishing without mechanical power is a rule on this local fishery) that still dredge harvested oysters from the river bed using traditional methods unchanged since Victorian times. The fisherman's muddy fingers can be seen lifting (or shuck) the crustacean slightly from the shell with an old oyster knife to display this wild, native Fal oyster which is known for its distinctive sweet, fresh and delicate flavour.
    oysters-04-10-1994_1.jpg
  • English Falmouth Estuary oysters have become highly sought-after around European restaurants and we see a freshly-caught specimen still in its shell after being landed from a traditional Falmouth antique working sail boat (fishing without mechanical power is a rule on this local fishery) that still dredge harvested oysters from the river bed using traditional methods unchanged since Victorian times. The fisherman's muddy fingers can be seen lifting (or shuck) the crustacean slightly from the shell with an old oyster knife to display this wild, native Fal oyster which is known for its distinctive sweet, fresh and delicate flavour.
    oyster10-04-1994.jpg
  • Examples of bird wildlife to be found after the extensive conservation project at Barton Broad in the Norfolk Broads. The information board shows us the species and kinds of birdlife thriving in this wetland, a region of east Anglia known for its important natural habitats after decades of neglect. Birds such as Coot, Mallard, Moorhen, Tern and Grebe are all surviving thanks to investment and a commitment to protect native species. Barton Broad is the largest Broad in the Ant Valley. It is a man-made landscape impacted by natural processes - the open water is a result of flooded peat diggings. The fen habitat around Barton Broad contributes to the largest fenland expanse in the UK and contains rare vegetation.
    barton_broad02-01-08-2013_1_1.jpg
  • Kagalagadi Transfrontier Park,Xaus camp. Xaus, is owned by the San (Bushman) and Mier people who originally hunted here, and had a large tract of land in the park returned to them a few years ago. Kurt Loots & family, lodge guests, sampling the Bushman life with Kokai Makai, a medican man of the tribe.
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  • A "Matses" tribal women with facial decorations in the form of cats whiskers  made from thin bamboo sticks, Remoyacu village, Peru
    cp_per_0162_1.jpg
  • Sailors from the cargo vessel Aranui loading and sitting on "Copra", dried coconut shells, Ua Huka Island, French Polynesia.
    cp_mar_0156_1.jpg
  • an Aymara indian woman tends to her llamas in Bolivia's altiplano region.
    cp_bol_0055_1.jpg
  • an Aymara indian woman tends to her cattle in Bolivia's altiplano region.
    cp_bol_0054_1.jpg
  • an Aymara indian woman tends to her cattle in Bolivia's altiplano region.
    cp_bol_0053_1.jpg
  • Aymara indian mothers carry their baby children on their backs, Llallagua mining town, Bolivia
    cp_bol_0045_1.jpg
  • Miner overlooks the town of Siglo XX tin mine,  Llallagua, Bolivia
    cp_bol_0043_1.jpg
  • young girl carries her baby brother in the town of Siglo XX tin mine,  Llallagua, Bolivia
    cp_bol_0042_1.jpg
  • Close up of family meal in home close to the shores of Lugu Lake, northwest Yunnan province.<br />
<br />
Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
    chilugu_026_1.jpg
  • Mu Ze Latso with family have lunch together amid posters of Mao  Zedong and  the Dalai Lama in home close to the shores of Lugu Lake, northwest Yunnan province.<br />
<br />
Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
    chilugu_024-2_1.jpg
  • Mu Ze Latso  prepares lunch at home amidst hanging corns and posters and photos of the Dalai Lama, in village along the shores of Lugu Lake, northwest Yunnan province.<br />
<br />
Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
    chilugu_022_1.jpg
  • Mu Ze Latso a Mo Suo minority,  with friend go shopping for groceries in Yongning town’s market, in northwest Yunnan Province close to Sichuan and Tibetatn border.<br />
<br />
Mo Su people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Su traditions. minority,  with friend go shopping for groceries in Yongning town’s market, in northwest Yunnan Province close to Sichuan and Tibetatn border.<br />
<br />
Mo Su people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walkin
    chilugu_012-2_1.jpg
  • Mu Ze Latso a Mo Suo minority,  with friend go shopping for groceries in Yongning town’s market, in northwest Yunnan Province close to Sichuan and Tibetatn border.<br />
<br />
Mo Su people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Su traditions.
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  • Kagalagadi Transfrontier Park,Xaus camp. Xaus, is owned by the San (Bushman) and Mier people who originally hunted here, and had a large tract of land in the park returned to them a few years ago. Kurt Loots & family, lodge guests, sampling the Bushman life with Kokai Makai, a medican man of the tribe.
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  • Kagalagadi Transfrontier Park,Xaus camp. Xaus, is owned by the San (Bushman) and Mier people who originally hunted here, and had a large tract of land in the park returned to them a few years ago. Kurt Loots & family, lodge guests, sampling the Bushman life with Kokai Makai, a medican man of the tribe.
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  • Kagalagadi Transfrontier Park, Xaus camp. Xaus, is owned by the San (Bushman) and Mier people who originally hunted here, and had a large tract of land in the park returned to them a few years ago. Kokai Maki teaching his young relation Andot Malgas hunting in the traditional manner.
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  • Kagalagadi Transfrontier Park, Xaus camp. Xaus, is owned by the San (Bushman) and Mier people who originally hunted here, and had a large tract of land in the park returned to them a few years ago. Kokai Maki teaching his young relation Andot Malgas hunting in the traditional manner.
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  • Kagalagadi Transfrontier Park, Xaus camp. Xaus, is owned by the San (Bushman) and Mier people who originally hunted here, and had a large tract of land in the park returned to them a few years ago. Kokai Maki teaching his young relation Andot Malgas hunting in the traditional manner.
    069_O7F3487_1.jpg
  • Kagalagadi Transfrontier Park, Xaus camp. Xaus, is owned by the San (Bushman) and Mier people who originally hunted here, and had a large tract of land in the park returned to them a few years ago. Kokai Maki teaching his young relation Andot Malgas hunting in the traditional manner.
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  • Mier Family on mule pulled trap near the Kagalagadi Transfrontier Park
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  • Kagalagadi Transfrontier Park,Xaus camp. Xaus, is owned by the San (Bushman) and Mier people who originally hunted here, and had a large tract of land in the park returned to them a few years ago. Kurt Loots & family, lodge guests, sampling the Bushman life with Kokai Makai, a medican man of the tribe.
    080IMG_2581_1.jpg
  • Kagalagadi Transfrontier Park, Xaus camp. Xaus, is owned by the San (Bushman) and Mier people who originally hunted here, and had a large tract of land in the park returned to them a few years ago. Kokai Maki teaching his young relation Andot Malgas hunting in the traditional manner.
    072_O7F3525_1.jpg
  • Kagalagadi Transfrontier Park, Xaus camp. Xaus, is owned by the San (Bushman) and Mier people who originally hunted here, and had a large tract of land in the park returned to them a few years ago. Kokai Maki teaching his young relation Andot Malgas hunting in the traditional manner.
    069_O7F3487_1.jpg
  • Kagalagadi Transfrontier Park, Xaus camp. Xaus, is owned by the San (Bushman) and Mier people who originally hunted here, and had a large tract of land in the park returned to them a few years ago. Kokai Maki teaching his young relation Andot Malgas hunting in the traditional manner.
    071_O7F3501_1.jpg
  • Kagalagadi Transfrontier Park, Xaus camp. Xaus, is owned by the San (Bushman) and Mier people who originally hunted here, and had a large tract of land in the park returned to them a few years ago. Kokai Maki teaching his young relation Andot Malgas hunting in the traditional manner.
    068_O7F3445_1.jpg
  • Mier Family on mule pulled trap near the Kagalagadi Transfrontier Park
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  • Central lodge pool, Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, the Oppenheimer family-owned reserve near the very small town of Vanzylsrus.
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  • Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, the Oppenheimer family-owned reserve near the very small town of Vanzylsrus. Meinfam's Pearl Spotted Owl
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  • Kagalagadi Transfrontier Park. Oryx (Gemsbok) in dried out salt pan.
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  • Near the camp is a small Bushman village, built for the tourists, and inhabited by volunteers from the nearest San settlement for two weeks at a time who sit in the sand making bracelets, necklaces and bows and arrows in the old way using seeds, favoured trees and ostrich shell.<br />
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Kagalagadi Transfrontier Park,Xaus camp, <br />
 !Xaus, is owned by the San (Bushman) and Mier people who originally hunted here, and had a large tract of land in the park returned to them a few years ago.
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  • Kagalagadi Transfrontier Park, Xaus camp. Xaus, is owned by the San (Bushman) and Mier people who originally hunted here, and had a large tract of land in the park returned to them a few years ago. Kokai Maki teaching his young relation Andot Malgas hunting in the traditional manner.
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  • Wrecked car in the Kalahari desert near the Kagalagadi Transfrontier Park.
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  • Horse riding in Gondwana Canon Park, a 100,000 hectare private reserve.
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  • Fish River Canyon. The Fish River rises in the hills to the north and only flows sporadically, but over the millennia it has carved an enormous canyon 500 metres deep into the unstable surface of Namibia, to form the second deepest canyon in the world. The walls of the canyon are an object lesson in geology: every layer for the last 1000 million years is clearly visible.
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  • Fish River Canyon. The Fish River rises in the hills to the north and only flows sporadically, but over the millennia it has carved an enormous canyon 500 metres deep into the unstable surface of Namibia, to form the second deepest canyon in the world. The walls of the canyon are an object lesson in geology: every layer for the last 1000 million years is clearly visible.
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  • Fish River Canyon National Park, Namibia. Mountain zebra herd
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  • Horses in the south of Namibia
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  • A view at sunset of the siluetted teepee village, Glastonbury Festival 2010
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  • Dwarfed by a Giant Sequoia tree (Sequoiadendron giganteum), a female tourist stands with a map of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park in the southern Sierra Nevada range, California. The lady looks diminutive next to this natural plant which are some of the largest organisms in the world, often between 1800 and 2700 years old. The Park is a famous landscape in this wilderness where the fourth largest Giant Sequoia is called The President, a  240.9 foot high tree with a circumference of 93.0 feet and a volume of 45,148 cubic feet. As they continue to grow, they produce about 40 cubic feet of wood each year, approximately equal to the volume of a 50-foot-tall tree one foot in diameter. Source: http://www.nps.gov/seki/index.htm
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  • The black-maned Kalahari lion.Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, the Oppenheimer family-owned reserve near the very small town of Vanzylsrus.
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  • Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, the Oppenheimer family-owned reserve near the very small town of Vanzylsrus. The chief guide, Dylan Smith, with the tracker Johannes
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  • Kagalagadi Transfrontier Park. Oryx (Gemsbok) in dried out salt pan.
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  • Kagalagadi Transfrontier Park, Xaus camp. Xaus, is owned by the San (Bushman) and Mier people who originally hunted here, and had a large tract of land in the park returned to them a few years ago. Kokai Maki teaching his young relation Andot Malgas hunting in the traditional manner.
    074Kalahari_0347_1.jpg
  • Near the camp is a small Bushman village, built for the tourists, and inhabited by volunteers from the nearest San settlement for two weeks at a time who sit in the sand making bracelets, necklaces and bows and arrows in the old way using seeds, favoured trees and ostrich shell...Kagalagadi Transfrontier Park,Xaus camp, . !Xaus, is owned by the San (Bushman) and Mier people who originally hunted here, and had a large tract of land in the park returned to them a few years ago. .
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  • Wrecked car in the Kalahari desert near the Kagalagadi Transfrontier Park.
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  • Horse riding in Gondwana Canon Park, a 100,000 hectare private reserve.
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  • Fish River Canyon national park,  Namibia
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  • A view at sunset of the teepee village overlooking the Park, Glastonbury Festival 2010
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