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  • Jewelry market during the Kumbh Mela festival, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India. The Kumbh Mela festival is a sacred Hindu pilgrimage held 4 times every 12 years, cycling between the cities of Allahabad, Nasik, Ujjain and Hardiwar. Kumbh Mela is one of the largest religious festivals on earth, attracting millions from all over India and the world. Past Melas have attracted up to 70 million visitors.
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  • Viahondjera Musutua, a Himba tribeswoman, sits outside the house at her father's village with her youngest son and her typical day's worth of food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Model Released.
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  • Viahondjera Musutua, a Himba tribeswoman, cooks at her home in the small village of Ondjete in northwestern Namibia. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Viahondjera Musutua, a 23 year old Himba woman who lives in the small village of Ondjete in northwestern Namibia (with green pendant dangling from her headband). MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio co-authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, interview Viahondjera Musutua, a 23 year old Himba woman in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The young woman is the mother of three children and bore her first child at age 14.  The Himba culture is polygamous and Viahondjera is the second wife of her husband. Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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  • Viahondjera Musutua's older brother plays with her son as she eats porridge left over from breakfast in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Viahondjera Musutua, a Himba woman, uses a penknife to fix the hair of another Himba woman in the small village of Ondjete in northwestern Namibia. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Viahondjera Musutua (left), a Himba tribeswoman, fixes her friend's hair while her child plays outside their house in the small village of Ondjete in northwestern Namibia. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A Himba woman breastfeeds a child while sitting outside her home in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia, during the rainy season in March. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.
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  • A Maasai woman at a weekly market in Oldorko Maasai village,  several hours from Narok, Kenya. The jewelery worn by the Maasai is symbolic through its colors and patterns.
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  • A traditionally dressed Himba woman shops for staples and soda pop with her child in a supermarket in Opuwo, a town well known for cultural tourism in northwestern Namibia, after receiving money from a tourist in exchange for a photograph.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder and cow butter blend. Some Himba are turning to tourism to kick-start their entry into the cash economy, setting up demonstration villages advertising "The Real Himba."
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  • Noolkisaruni Tarakuai, the third of four wives of a Maasai chief, at her home in a Maasai compound village near Narouk, Kenya. Noolkisaruni Tarakuai is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The Holy Land Experience is a Christian theme park in Orlando, Florida. The theme park recreates the architecture and themes of the ancient city of Jerusalem in 1st century Israel. The Holy Land Experience was founded and built by Marvin Rosenthal, a Jewish born Baptist minister but is now owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Rosenthal is also the chief executive of a ministry devoted to 'reaching the Jewish people for the Messiah' called Zion's Hope. Beside the theme park architectural recreations, there are church services and live presentations of biblical stories, most notably a big stage production featuring the life of Jesus. There are several restaurants and gift shops in the theme park. The staff dresses in biblical costumes. Admission is $40 for adults and $25 for youths, aged 6-18.
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  • Flower offering to the Christ of life in Masanassa, Valencia, Spain.
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  • Pawnshop called The Happy Hocker in Palmdale, Mojave Desert, California, USA.
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  • Flower offering to the Christ of life in Masanassa, Valencia, Spain.
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  • Flower offering to the Christ of life in Masanassa, Valencia, Spain.
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  • Flamenco dancing at the April Fair, Seville, Spain.
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  • Jewelery store window in Old Town Square. Warsaw, Poland.
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  • Viahondjera Musutua speaks to a neighbor outside her home  in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia.  (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • San Telmo
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  • A young woman wearing traditional Mayan clothing, waiting for president Salinas to arrive in Kopoma, Yucatan, Mexico.
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  • Flower offering to the Christ of life in Masanassa, Valencia, Spain.
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  • Flower offering to the Christ of life in Masanassa, Valencia, Spain.
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  • Computerized phone book called the Minitel, which was one of the first online information services accessed by telephone lines. Paris, France. 1980's.
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  • Peking Opera actor. Beijing, China.
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  • A traditionaly dressed Himba woman shops for staples and soda pop with her child in a supermarket in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia after receiving money from a tourist in exchange for a photograph. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A Himba woman carries an ehoro (traditional wooden bucket) filled with milk after milking cows in a corral in the village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk. During the rainy season there is plenty of grass for the animals to eat but the mud and manure of the corral are problematic.
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  • A traditionally dressed Himba woman with her child outside a supermarket in Opuwo, a town well known for cultural tourism in northwestern Namibia, after receiving money from a tourist in exchange for a photograph.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder and cow butter blend. Some Himba are turning to tourism to kick-start their entry into the cash economy, setting up demonstration villages advertising "The Real Himba."
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  • Flamenco dancing at the April Fair, Seville, Spain.
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  • Transvestites enjoy strutting their stuff at the wine harvest festival in Logroño, Rioja, Spain.
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  • Viahondjera Musutua carries a bucket of milk at her home  in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia.  (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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