Afghanistan, Bamiyan Province, Yakawlang District, Khamestana Village. Village elders in discussion one man holding prayer beads.

Uzbekistan, Samarkand, Carved stone figures on front of Afrosiab Museum, also known as Afrosiyob Museum.

Canada, Alberta, Waterton Lakes National Park, Buckskin Dance at the Blackfoot Arts & Heritage Festival Pow Wow organized by Parks Canada and the Blackfoot Canadian Cultural Society, This dance is onl...

Canada, Alberta, Stand Off, Canada's Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, seated on a buffalo skin rug as Medicine Man Pete Standing Alone places a ceremonial headdress of Eagle feathers on his head as pa...

Canada, Alberta, Stand Off, Canada's Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, seated on a buffalo skin rug as Medicine Man Pete Standing Alone applies paint to his face as part of the ceremony to induct him in...

Village elders in conference seated in circle around fire.

Barasana shamans wearing crowns of royal crane toucan and macaw feathers white glass bead necklaces some elders wear ancient quartz pendants. Elders chant to the world of the ancestors Bosco the hea...

Barasana elders chanting Bosco the headman in drugged sleep after ritual dance Cristo an old shaman leads chant clutching hardwood prayer stave All in hallucenogenic state after drinking potent Yaj...

Barasana shamans & elders led by revered shaman Cristo chant to reach ancient world of ancestors holding sacred hardwood prayer staves some wearing ancient quartz pendants wild boar teeth belts and...

Dodoth Karamojong warriors and elders at meeting to discuss potential attack by enemy tribe The elders can assert power and influence over younger men.

Tukano musical instruments with a stool used by tribal elders and shamans; engraved maracas bamboo flute bamboo panpipesAmazon Indigenous Tribes Rio Piraparana American Colombian South America Vaup...

Boys playing panpipes at dusk in entrance to maloca / longhouse. One sits on an elders stool other lies in a cumare / fibre hammockIndigenous Tribes rio Piraparana North West Amazonia Amazon Amer...