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  • Young Ait Haddidou woman at the Imilchil Brides' Fair, the High Atlas, Morocco. The fair, or moussem, which is held by the local Berber tribe, is an annual event consisting of trading goods, praying at a marabout, the grave of a local saint, and searching for a suitable marriage partner. The way in which the woman wears her headdress tells that she is or has been married before.  Divorce is common in the area. Her clothing, e g the striped, woollen cloak, is typical of the Hait Haddidou women.
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  • After giving her a prayer shawl and blessing, the rabbi talks to a Jewish girl before she goes through her bat mitzvah, her coming-of-age ritual, at her Reform Jewish synagogue in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA. After this she will enter the synagogue hall to read extracts from the Torah, the holy scriptures, to the congregation. Jewish tradition dictates that a girl comes of age at twelve, though in Reform and Conservative Jewish congregations they usually become bat mitzvahs at thirteen, the same age as boys.
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  • Worhisppers receive the consecrated bread known as the Eucharist, at the celebration of mass during the Fiesta del Colaco, in Castrillo de Murcia, Burgos province, Spain. The Fiesta del Colacho is held every year at the time of the Catholic feast Corpus Christi.
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  • Two Kombai men collect sago grubs found inside a rotten sago palm in Papua, Indonesia. September 2000. The palm was felled seven weeks earlier, wrapped in leaves and then left to rot in order for the scarab beetle to come and lay its eggs inside. The grubs will be consumed during a a sago grub festival. This is the most important religious rite of the Kombai, who are a so-called treehouse people, building thir homes high up in the trees.
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  • A mother captures the moment when a photographer takes a picture of her daughter after she has gone through the shichi-go-san ceremony at the Heian Jingu shrine, in Kyoto, Japan. During shichi-go-san, literally seven-five-three, parents dress their daughters aged three and seven and sons aged five in traditional costume and take them to a Shinto shrine to be blessed.
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  • Respectful bows from the family and the priest end a shichi-go-san ritual inside the Aoto Jinja shrine in Tokyo, Japan. During shichi-go-san, literally seven-five-three, parents dress their daughters aged three and seven and sons aged five in traditional costume and take them to a Shinto shrine to be blessed.
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  • An overloaded pickup during the Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks, in Mae Hong Son, Thailand. Before the boys become novice monks they are dressed like princes and treated like royalty for three days, in honor of the Buddha. Their feet may not touch the ground, so they are carried by attendants, but when it is too far to walk, they may take a car.
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  • Kombai men collect sago grubs found inside a rotten sago palm in Papua, Indonesia. September 2000. The palm was felled seven weeks earlier, wrapped in leaves and then left to rot in order for the scarab beetle to come and lay its eggs inside. The grubs will be consumed during a a sago grub festival. This is the most important religious rite of the Kombai, who are a so-called treehouse people, building thir homes high up in the trees.
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  • A Kombai woman carries a child on her hip during a hunting and foraging trip in the rainforest in Papua, Indonesia. September 2000. The Kombai are a so-called treehouse people who build their homes high up in the trees. The woman also carries a string bag in which to put foodstuff or her child when it gets sleepy.
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  • Cremation workers called Dom, and classed as untouchables, clear the river Ganges from charcoal and other debris, while also looking for valuables at Manikarnika Ghat, the main cremation site of Varanasi, India. On the steps lie biers with dead bodies waiting to be cremated. To be cremated in the sacred city of Varanasi means a straight passage to heaven, many Hindus believe.
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  • A Dom, an untouchable working at the cremation site, clearing the river Ganges from charcoal and other debris, while also looking for valuables, Manikarnika Ghat, the main cremation ghat of Varanasi, India. On the steps lie biers with dead bodies waiting to be cremated. To be cremated in the sacred city of Varanasi means a straight passage to heaven, many Hindus believe.
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  • A Korowai woman climbs the thin ladder of the treehouse in which she lives with a heavy load in her string bag in Papua, Indonesia. September 2000. The Korowai are a so-called treehouse people, who build their homes high up in the trees.
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  • A young boy and his  parents get ready to pose for the camera in a photographer's studio before going to a Shinto shrine for the boy's shichi-go-san ritual in Tokyo, Japan. During shichi-go-san, literally seven-five-three, parents dress their daughters aged three and seven and sons aged five in traditional costume and take them to a Shinto shrine to be blessed.
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