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Another entry in my series of found shoes. This at Rocky Beach in Lower Bidwell Park.
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Most of the tribes have given their guns to the government, so many use wood guns as replicas, to fool their enemies who might attack them for their cattle. An embarrassment for these warriors
Bana people also spelled Banna or Benna are an indigenous tribe of 50 000 people, of the lower Omo Valley. Their neighbors are the Hamer tribe and it is believed that the Bena actually originated from them centuries ago. They are really similar to them and are for that reason often called : Hammer-Bena.
The Banna People are a friendly people and they look fantastic, especially the women with their many decorations but also the proud men with a clay or braided hair style as they get when they honour a slain enemy or wild animal. They live mostly on agriculture in upland areas to the east of the Omo Valley, adjacent to the area of Ari and Tsemai. You can meet them in the markets of Key Afer.
Just like most of the tribes the Bena practice ritual dancing and singing. The men often have their hair dressed up with a colorful clay cap that is decorated with feathers. Women of the tribe wear beads in their hair that is held together with butter. Both the men and women wear long garments and paint their bodies with white chalk.
Common rituals and traditions of other tribes are shared by the Bena. For example the boys in the tribe participate in bull jumping, commonly called cow jumping or even bull leaping. When it is time for the boy to become a man, he must jump naked over a number of bulls without falling. If he is able to complete this task, he will become a man and be able to marry a woman.
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When the Surma shepherds leave their village, they paint their bodies like for a camouflage;
Like their neighbours, the Surma, living in Omo valley, Ethiopia, paint their bodies; They create a variety of designs on their naked bodies using their fingertips, which helps exposing their dark skins and aims at beautifying themselves and frightenning their opponents; Surma men, generally believed to be expert artists, also paint the girls;
Surma or Suri is a sedentary pastoral tribe living in south west Ethiopia, in Omo Valley on the western bank of the Omo River, in Kibish and Tulgit areas;
Itâs quite common to see men and women carrying Kalashnikovs, which are part of the daily life; Their land has always been a place of traditional rivalries amoung neighbouring tribes such as the Bume (Nyangatom) or the Toposa from Sudan who regularly team up to raid on their cattle; These fights have become quite bloody since automatic firearms have become available during in the Sudanese Civil War;
Only few Surma are familiar with Amharic, Ethiopiaâs official language, and the literacy level is very low; Lip plate and Donga stick fights are the two typical distinctive features of these people, shared with the neighbouring Mursi people;
The land of the Suri, in the Omo Valley, Ethiopia, is being stolen by the Ethiopian government to be rented to foreign companies; They are then rented out for 1 euro per hectare and per year;
© Eric Lafforgue
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Night view of the magnificent Blue Mosque (i.e., Sultan Ahmed Mosque), situated in downtown Istanbul, Istanbul province, Marmara region of Turkey.
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Beautiful painting on the ceiling inside the Qajar Kushak, in Fin Garden, situated in Kashan, Isfahan province of Iran.
Fin Garden is a historical Persian garden, and part of UNESCO World Heritage Site. It contains Kashan's Fin Bath, where Amir Kabir, the Qajarid chancellor, was murdered by an assassin sent by King Nasereddin Shah in 1852. Completed in 1590, the Fin Garden is the oldest extant garden in Iran.
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I was intrigued by this small juniper growing in front of Turret Arch. The late afternoon sun was starting to cast an even warmer glow on the already golden tones of the area - including the dust coating the juniper.
View of the magnificient glass ceiling on the front entrance of Chehel Sotoun Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Isfahan, Isfahan province of Iran.
Chehel Sotoun Palace was built by Shah Abbas II to be used for his entertainment and receptions. The name, meaning "Forty Columns" in Persian, was inspired by the twenty slender wooden columns supporting the entrance pavilion, which, when reflected in the waters of the fountain, are said to appear to be forty.
The palace contains many frescoes and paintings on ceramic. Many of the ceramic panels have been dispersed and are now in the possession of major museums in the west. They depict specific historical scenes such as the infamous Battle of Chaldiran against the Ottoman Sultan Selim I, the reception of an Uzbek King in 1646, when the palace had just been completed; the welcome extended to the Mughal Emperor, Humayun who took refuge in Iran in 1544; the battle of Taher-Abad in 1510 where the Safavid Shah Ismail I vanquished and killed the Uzbek King. A more recent painting depicts Nader Shah's victory against the Indian Army at Karnal in 1739. There are also less historical, but even more aesthetic compositions in the traditional miniature style which celebrate the joy of life and love..
The Chehel Sotoun Palace is among the 9 Iranian Gardens which are collectively registered as one of the Iran’s 23 registered World Heritage Sites under the name of the Persian Garden.
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View of the magnificient frescos inside the main prayer hall of Vank Cathedral (Holy Savior Cathedral, Church of the Saintly Sisters), in Isfahan, Isfahan province of Iran.
The cathedral was established in 1606, dedicated to the hundreds of thousands of Armenian deportees that were resettled by Shah Abbas I during the Ottoman War of 1603-1618.
The interior is covered with fine frescos and gilded carvings and includes a wainscot of rich tile work. The delicately blue and gold painted central dome depicts the Biblical story of the creation of the world and man's expulsion from Eden. Pendentives throughout the church are painted with a distinctly Armenian motif of a cherub's head surrounded by folded wings. The ceiling above the entrance is painted with delicate floral motifs in the style of Persian miniature. Two sections, or bands, of murals run around the interior walls: the top section depicts events from the life of Jesus, while the bottom section depicts tortures inflicted upon Armenian martyrs by the Ottoman Empire.
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Beautiful interior room with stained glass windows, inside Tabatabaei House, situated in Kashan, Isfahan province of Iran.
Tabatabaei House is a historic house built in the early 1880s for the affluent Tabatabaei family. It consists of four courtyards, wall paintings with elegant stained glass windows, and includes other classic features of traditional Persian residential architecture, such as biruni and andaruni.
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The eye-catching bulbous Shirazi dome of Ali Ibn Hamzeh Holy Shrine, a Shia Muslim mosque, funerary monument & pilgrimage site, located in Shiraz, Fars province of Iran.
Built in the 19th century over the tomb of Emir Ali, a nephew of Shah Cheragh who also died here while en route to Khorasan to help Imam Reza, this shrine is the latest of several earlier incarnations destroyed by earthquakes.
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