1184-13350 - Inuit memorial, Grise Fjord, most northern community in America, Nunavut, Canadian Arctic, Canada, North America

765-2509 - Maasai (Masai) Warriors, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, East Africa, Africa

1112-9621 - Totem poles in the cemetery of the First Nations Kwakwaka'wakw people in Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada, North America

1311-1017 - The main house of the ancient Tusayan Ruins at Grand Canyon South Rim, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Arizona, United States of America, North America

1350-6180 - Cueva de las Manos del Rio Pinturas, Cave of the Hands, Patagonia, Province of Santa Cruz, Argentina

1350-6150 - Cueva de las Manos del Rio Pinturas, Cave of the Hands, Patagonia, Province of Santa Cruz, Argentina

1350-6213 - Cueva de las Manos del Rio Pinturas, Cave of the Hands, Patagonia, Province of Santa Cruz, Argentina

1350-6169 - Cueva de las Manos del Rio Pinturas, Cave of the Hands, Patagonia, Province of Santa Cruz, Argentina

1350-6165 - Cueva de las Manos del Rio Pinturas, Cave of the Hands, Patagonia, Province of Santa Cruz, Argentina

1350-6149 - Cueva de las Manos del Rio Pinturas, Cave of the Hands, Patagonia, Province of Santa Cruz, Argentina

1350-6183 - Cueva de las Manos del Rio Pinturas, Cave of the Hands, Patagonia, Province of Santa Cruz, Argentina

1350-6153 - Cueva de las Manos del Rio Pinturas, Cave of the Hands, Patagonia, Province of Santa Cruz, Argentina

1350-6142 - Cueva de las Manos del Rio Pinturas, Cave of the Hands, Patagonia, Province of Santa Cruz, Argentina

1350-6194 - Cueva de las Manos del Rio Pinturas, Cave of the Hands, Patagonia, Province of Santa Cruz, Argentina

1350-3803 - A Mayan woman use natural dyes to color fabrics. Ixoq Ajkeem comunity, San Juan La Laguna, Solol√°, Guatemala. Santiago Atitlan, lake Atitlan, Guatemala.

1350-3795 - A mayan woman tz'utujile working in the textil in San Juan de la Laguna, Solol√°, Guatelama.

1350-3802 - Local food, tamal served in Ixoq Ajkeem comunity, San Juan La Laguna, Solol√°, Guatemala. Santiago Atitlan, lake Atitlan, Guatemala.

1350-877 - The Offering Raft or La Balsa de la ofrenda, Pre-Columbian goldwork collection, Gold museum, Museo del Oro, Bogota, Colombia, America

1350-871 - Poporo and stick, Pre-Columbian goldwork collection, Gold museum, Museo del Oro, Bogota, Colombia, America

1350-875 - Offering room, sala de la ofrenda, Gold artifacts on display, Gold museum, Museo del Oro, Bogota, Colombia, America

1350-878 - The Offering Raft or La Balsa de la ofrenda, Pre-Columbian goldwork collection, Gold museum, Museo del Oro, Bogota, Colombia, America

1350-872 - Poporo and stick, Pre-Columbian goldwork collection, Gold museum, Museo del Oro, Bogota, Colombia, America

1350-870 - gold artifacts in the form of a Jaguar-Man, Pre-Columbian goldwork collection, Gold museum, Museo del Oro, Bogota, Colombia, America

1350-879 - Pectoral in the form of a Jaguar-Man, Pre-Columbian goldwork collection, Gold museum, Museo del Oro, Bogota, Colombia, America

1350-876 - Offering room, sala de la ofrenda, Gold artifacts on display, Gold museum, Museo del Oro, Bogota, Colombia, America

1350-873 - Poporo, Pre-Columbian goldwork collection, Gold museum, Museo del Oro, Bogota, Colombia, America

1350-880 - Crowns and helmets were worn by leaders, Pre-Columbian goldwork collection, Gold museum, Museo del Oro, Bogota, Colombia, America

1350-874 - Muisca Mummy, in Gold museum, Museo del Oro, Bogota, Colombia, America

809-7962 - Vegetarian offerings, Ancestor altar, Tu An Buddhist temple, Haute-Savoie, France, Europe

809-7961 - Vegetarian offerings, Ancestor altar, Tu An Buddhist temple, Haute-Savoie, France, Europe

1116-48609 - Incense urn at the Temple of Literature, Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam

1116-45243 - Foshan Ancestral Temple, Near Guangzhou, Foshan, Guangdong Province, China

1174-5324 - Decorated Streets, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico

857-95669 - Senior woman and boy with human and water buffalo skulls, Banaue, Ifugao, Philippines

1112-3881 - Ancestors graves in the front yard of a home in the town of Lufilufi on the island of Upolu, Samoa, South Pacific Islands, Pacific

1242-79 - A gallery of tao-taos (statues of ancestors) at a cliff gravesite, Tana Toraja, Sulawesi, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

809-6892 - Ullambana ceremony, when food is offered to the ancestors during the annual Ghost Festival, Buddha Tooth Relic Temple, Chinatown, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Asia

809-6899 - Ancestor worship, burning hell bank notes and other forms of joss paper, Hungry Ghost Festival (Ullambana), Singapore, Southeast Asia, Asia

857-92040 - Pictographs of hand prints, made around 1000 AD by the Anasazi, ancestors to the Pueblo Indians of today, decorate a sandstone o

797-11003 - China, Jiangsu, Qidong, Qingming Festival when Chinese people honour their ancestors and deceased family members by visiting their graves or burial grounds to make offerings of fake bank notes and gold ingots which are then burned As the burning of offerings in not allowed inside most cemetries for safety reasons they are burned in the gutter outside.

1112-2355 - Leiknes Rock Paintings depicting a killer whale, drawn by the ancestors of the Saami perhaps 9000 years ago, Leiknes, Troms, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

1112-2356 - Leiknes Rock Paintings depicting two swans, drawn by the ancestors of the Saami perhaps 9000 years ago, Leiknes, Troms, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

1112-2354 - Leiknes Rock Paintings depicting deer, drawn by the ancestors of the Saami perhaps 9000 years ago, Leiknes, Troms, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

1113-96187 - Maori traditional meeting house at Waitangi, carved meeting house representing all tribes, Maori Culture, Te Whare Runanga, North Island, New Zealand

832-302339 - Signature Berlin main station of the German Federal Railroads railways, Lehrter station.

832-302335 - Signature Berlin main station of the German Federal Railroads railways, Lehrter station.

832-302337 - Signature Berlin main station of the German Federal Railroads railways, Lehrter station.

832-281566 - Historic wall painting in the ancestor hall in Castle Burg, Solingen, Bergisches Land, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany

832-281565 - Historic wall painting in the ancestor hall in Castle Burg, Solingen, Bergisches Land, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany

832-281567 - Historic wall painting in the ancestor hall in Castle Burg, Solingen, Bergisches Land, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany

1161-5253 - Lakshaya Raj, son and heir of 76th Maharana of Mewar, Shriji Arvind Singh Mewar of Udaipur, at Holi Festival at the City Palace, Rajasthan, India

1161-5085 - Rohet Garh fortress palace hotel with battlement walls with drawings of aristocratic ancestors Rohet, Rajasthan, Northern India

1161-5256 - Lakshaya Raj, son and heir of 76th Maharana of Mewar, Shriji Arvind Singh Mewar of Udaipur, at Holi Festival at the City Palace, Rajasthan, India

1161-5269 - Shriji Arvind Singh Mewar of Udaipur, 76th Custodian of the House of Mewar, presides at annual Hindu Holi Fire Festival at The Zenana Mahal in the City Palace, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

1161-5268 - Shriji Arvind Singh Mewar of Udaipur, 76th Custodian of the House of Mewar, presides at annual Hindu Holi Fire Festival at The Zenana Mahal in the City Palace, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. On his right is son Lakshyaraj Singh Mewar of Udaipur, Maharaj Kumar.

1161-5254 - Lakshaya Raj, son and heir of 76th Maharana of Mewar, Shriji Arvind Singh Mewar of Udaipur, at Holi Festival at the City Palace, Rajasthan, India

1161-5086 - Rohet Garh fortress palace hotel with battlement walls with drawings of aristocratic ancestors Rohet, Rajasthan, Northern India

1161-5087 - Rohet Garh fortress palace hotel with battlement walls with drawings of aristocratic ancestors Rohet, Rajasthan, Northern India

1161-5267 - Shriji Arvind Singh Mewar of Udaipur, 76th Custodian of the House of Mewar, presides at annual Hindu Holi Fire Festival at The Zenana Mahal in the City Palace, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. On his right is son Lakshyaraj Singh Mewar of Udaipur, Maharaj Kumar.

1161-2248 - Gravestones in churchyard at All Saints Church in Church Lench, Worcestershire, UK

832-168099 - Ancestral gallery of the dukes of Mecklenburg Schwerin, Schweriner Schloss castle, built from 1845 to 1857, romantic historicism, Lennestrasse 1, Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, Europe

832-142832 - Ancestor statue in the Assembly Hall of the Fujian Chinese Congregation, Hoi An, Vietnam, Southeast Asia

832-102272 - Rock tombs with figures, ancestral gallery, Lemo, Toraja culture, Sulawesi, Indonesia, Asia

1113-67576 - Fu Shou Yuan cemetery, cemetery during Ching Ming Festival, prayers for dead, ancestors, family offers food, wine, fruit to the dead people, show their respect, prayer, 5th of April, offerings

1116-34007 - Thailand, Ayuthaya, Wat Yai Chai Monghon, Many Bodhisattva statues

1116-33728 - Thailand, Ayuthaya, Wat Yai Chai Monghon bodhisattva statues

857-67158 - A LAotian-American female monk with shaved head makes an offering of rice during worship as the Laotian American community celebrates the Buddhist new year by gathering at a property in suburban East Hartford Connecticut on April 28, 2007. Several shrines are set up on the property. The celebrants leave offerings of food, flowers and money, pray, dance, and feast for a day. Immigrants from Laos, including the Hmong people, are refugees from the Vietnam War era, when they helped United States in the war.

857-38764 - All Saints Day at Powazki Cemetery in Warsaw, Poland.

809-4958 - Buddhist ceremony at Ancestors' altar, Tu An Buddhist temple, Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny, Haute Savoie, France, Europe

809-4957 - Buddhist ceremony at Ancestors' altar, Tu An Buddhist temple, Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny, Haute Savoie, France, Europe

809-4959 - Buddhist ceremony, Ancestors' altar, Tu An Buddhist temple, Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny, Haute Savoie, France, Europe

809-4956 - Ancestors' altar, Tu An Buddhist temple, Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny, Haute Savoie, France, Europe

1188-352 - China ceremonial columns showing achievements of ancestors in mandarin exams outside a temple to ancestors in a village in fujian province

911-3073 - An ancient Beehive dwelling in County Kerry, Munster, Republic of Ireland, Europe

911-2583 - The cemetery on Shishmaref, a tiny island inhabited by around 600 Inuits, between Alaska and Siberia in the Chukchi Sea, United States of America, North America

911-161 - The old folks of Ilulissat having a day out in front of the town's cemetery, Greenland, Polar Regions

809-4160 - Ancestors' Hall, Kun Iam Temple, Macau, China, Asia

809-4161 - Ancestors' Hall, Kun Iam Temple, Macau, China, Asia

834-1292 - Longmen Buddhist Caves, Ancestor Worshipping Temple dating from the Tang Dynasty, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Luoyang, Henan Province, China, Asia

834-1288 - Ancestor Worshipping Temple dating from the Tang Dynasty, Longmen Buddhist Caves, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Luoyang, Henan Province, China, Asia

834-1304 - Longmen Buddhist Caves, Ancestor Worshipping Temple dating from the Tang Dynasty, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Luoyang, Henan Province, China, Asia

834-1301 - Longmen Buddhist Caves, Ancestor Worshipping Temple dating from the Tang Dynasty, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Luoyang, Henan Province, China, Asia

834-1340 - Bodhisattva and Guardian statues, Longmen Buddhist Caves, Ancestor Worshipping Temple dating from the Tang Dynasty, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Luoyang, Henan Province, China, Asia

834-1321 - Bodhisattva and Guardian statues, Longmen Buddhist Caves, Ancestor Worshipping Temple dating from the Tang Dynasty, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Luoyang, Henan Province, China, Asia

834-1329 - Bodhisattva and Guardian statues, Longmen Buddhist Caves, Ancestor Worshipping Temple dating from the Tang Dynasty, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Luoyang, Henan Province, China, Asia

834-1281 - Ancestor Worshipping Temple dating from the Tang Dynasty, Longmen Buddhist Caves, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Luoyang, Henan Province, China, Asia

834-1315 - Bodhisattva and Guardian statues, Ancestor Worshipping Temple, Longmen Buddhist Caves dating from the Tang Dynasty, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Luoyang, Henan Province, China, Asia

827-239 - Tourists taking their own photograph in front of the Hall for Worship Of Ancestors, The Forbidden City, Beijing, China, Asia

827-238 - Tourists taking their own photograph in front of the Hall for Worship Of Ancestors, The Forbidden City, Beijing, China, Asia

809-1855 - Ancestor worship in a Hanoi home, Vietnam, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

809-123 - Mosaic depicting Jesus and his ancestors, from Adam to Jacob, in Kariye Camii (Holy Saviour in Chora church), Istanbul, Turkey, Europe

809-233 - Elders' altar, Tu An pagoda, Bonneville, Haute Savoie, France, Europe

809-232 - Elders' altar, Linh Son pagoda, Joinville le Pont, Val-de-Marne, France, Europe

809-1181 - Ancestor worship in a Hanoi home, Hanoi, Vietnam, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

238-5764 - Library with ancestor portraits in Diep Dong Nguyen House, built in the 19th century by a Chinese merchant, Hoi An, Vietnam, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

238-5756 - Ancestors altar, An Hien garden house in Hue, Vietnam, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

797-2769 - Women with painted bodies at an ancestor worship ceremony, Accra, Ghana, Africa

733-1734 - Carvings on a Whare Whakairo Meeting House, carvings representing the dead and manifestations of ancestors preserved tribal history in an oral society, Te Puia Maori Village, Rotorua, Taupo Volcanic Zone, North Island, New Zealand, Pacific

83-10144 - Namondjok (centre) who ate his clan sister, Namarrgon (right) , the Lightning Man and Barrginj his wife (below left) supernatural ancestors at the rock art site at Nourlangie Rock, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia

83-168 - Parasols in Pura Taman Pule Hindu temple on Koningan Day, Bali's second most important holiday when the holy souls of the ancestors are revered, Gianyar district, Bali, Indonesia