PAPUA NEW GUINEA, Mount Hagen, Warrior wearing birds of paradise feather head dress and red face paint with feathers peirced through his nasal septum at the Cultural Show.

Papua New Guinea, People, Head and shoulders portrait of Chimbu man wearing head-dress of bird of paradise feathers and mask of red face paint. In profile to right.

Nigeria, North, General, Wodaabe tribesman applying traditonal face decoration before dance.

Nigeria, General, Wodaabe tribesman applying face paint using piece of straw.

Thailand, Sukothai, Close-up of time-blackened Buddha's face, with the remains of blue and gold paint, Wat Saphan Hin.

Canada, Alberta, Lethbridge, A bare-shouldered young blonde Canadian girl sits to have the word CANADA painted on her face at Canada Day celebrations at Henderson Park, Face painter in a red T shirt h...

Canada, Alberta, Waterton Lakes National Park, Blackfoot head dancer Aryson Black Plume in full regalia and face paint at the Blackfoot Arts & Heritage Festival Pow Wow organized by Parks Canada and t...

Canada, Alberta, Waterton Lakes National Park, Pow Wow at the Blackfoot Arts & Heritage Festival to celebrate Parks Canada's centennial, Head dancers Jenny Yellow Horn and Aryson Black Plume centre in...

Canada, Alberta, Waterton Lakes National Park, Grand Entry of dancers in full regalia at the Blackfoot Arts & Heritage Festival Pow Wow organized by Parks Canada and the Blackfoot Canadian Cultural So...

Canada, Alberta, Stand Off, Canada's Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, with face painted and in ceremonial headdress of Eagle feathers and beadwork having just been inducted as a Chief of the Kainai or...

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...

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...