1383-99 - Ivory and other possessions of the Paramount Chief Kalonga Gaia Uni are put in place for the Kulamba Ceremony

860-291779 - Mafate cirque from the Cap Noir, La Possession, Reunion Island, France

805-1495 - Traditional nomadic Rabari tribeswoman with her camel carrying her worldly possessions, resting in the shade of a tree, Gujarat, India, Asia

805-1496 - Nomadic Rabari tribesperson's camel carrying a family's goat and possessions, standing in the shade of a tree, Gujarat, India, Asia

1178-40282 - Elaborate sand castle on beach

1178-38534 - Person wearing mask in smoke

805-41 - Nomadic Rabhari tribeswoman walking in the Kachchh desert with camel carrying her possessions, Lakhdar district, Gujarat, India, Asia

1174-5862 - Cushioned benches in sunny conservatory, Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire, UK

832-373068 - Woman jumping with shopping bags, joyful leap

832-368962 - Smallholder looking over the wooden gate to the neighbouring fields cultivated by a great land owner, soybean plantation, Gran Chaco, Santiago del Estero province, Argentina, South America

832-314175 - Germany : Illegal weapons, knifes, confiscated from young people

832-314176 - Germany : Illegal weapons, knifes, confiscated from young people

832-366186 - Road to Santiago , event for the pilger , theatre style , Galicia , Santiago de Compostela , Spain , Europe

832-366180 - Glass-window in cathedral of Our Beloved Woman , Luxembourg , Europe

832-366261 - View of the marina , Port Vauban , Antibes , Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur , France , Europe

832-366262 - View of the Yacht Carinthia VII , Port Vauban , Antibes , Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur , France , Europe

1113-44706 - Hotel Lodge Tamarin in La Possession, La Reunion, Indian Ocean

857-33774 - At the Meira tent camp for earthquake survivors, Pashtun men load their family's possessions onto a tractor trailer as they prepare to leave the camp, Allai Valley, NWFP, Pakistan.

857-33519 - At the Meira tent camp for earthquake survivors, Pashtun men load their family's possessions onto a tractor trailer as they prepare to leave the camp, where they have spent the winter, the Allai Valley, Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan.

857-29903 - Vintage American cars sit on blocks below a deteriorating building from the Colonial era in Old Havana. Because of the blockade and economic hardships, cars are a precious possession and many are passed down from generation to generation.

857-33765 - Men from the village of Gangwal, which was devastated in the 2005 earthquake, show makeshift shelters that villagers constructed themselves after the quake, in the upper Allai Valley, NWFP, Pakistan. Most of the villagers fled to tent camps at lower elevations to spend the winter, leaving just a handful of families to look after livestock and possessions. The people of this remote area are Pashtun and until the earthquake, neither the government nor the military had much presence or influence in the region.

857-33782 - On the the road to the Allai Valley, a Pashtun family carries luggage past trucks that are stuck in mud and landslide debris-the trucks are full of other families and their possessions traveling back to their mountan villages, Battagram District, Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province. The region was one of the worst-hit by the October 2005 earthquake, and aftershocks and heavy rains continue to trigger landslides, which have hampered reconstruction efforts and the return of earthquake survivors to their mountain villages from the low altitude tent camps where many spent the winter.

857-33537 - Pashtun men clear rocks from a landslide that is blocking the road to the Allai Valley, and preventing many trucks full of earthquake survivors and their possessions from traveling back to their mountan villages, Battagram District, Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province. The region was one of the worst-hit by the October 2005 earthquake, and aftershocks and heavy rains continue to trigger landslides, which have hampered reconstruction efforts and the return of earthquake survivors to their mountain villages from the low altitude tent camps where many spent the winter.

1196-225 - Humla, shamans. shamans central to ceremonial life, with their spirit possession high point of every collective ritual. Their white wool tufted turnans match description of zhangzhung’s priests

1196-111 - The idea of the interconnectedness of all things is central to the tribal way of looking at the world. practical knowledge of the environment, of crops and medicines, of hunting and fishing, is a byproduct of it. the makuna believe that human beings, animals, and all of nature are parts of the same one. animals and fish live in their own communities, which are just like human communities, with their chiefs, their shamans, their dance houses, their songs, and their material possessions. when human peoples dance in this world, the shaman invites the animal people to dance in theirs. if humans do not dance and shamans do not offer spirit food to the animal people, the animals will die out and there will be no more game left in the world. for the makuna the radical disjunction so characteristic of western thought between nature and culture, men and animals, dissolves. eastern colombia amazon, vaupes region, population: 600

832-7264 - Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) in Scotland, United Kingdom

805-59 - Two families moving house with all their possessions, including cockerels, carried on bicycles, Nimaparha, Puri district, Orissa, India, Asia

724-372 - Portrait of a fisherman and his catch, near to Anse Possession, island of Praslin, Seychelles, Indian Ocean, Africa

724-1340 - Man in trance during voodoo ceremony, Abomey, Benin (Dahomey), Africa

763-115 - Santeria ceremony, the woman in center is posessed by and takes on the character of an orisha or deity called by conga drummers, Havana, Cuba