1350-2073 - New Ireland Malagan funerary statue in at the Metropolitan Museum of Art museum, New York, USA. New Ireland is part of the Bismarck Archipelago, situated north of New Guinea, and has an estimated population of 100,000. The Dutch first encountered the island in 1616, and today New Ireland is a province of Papua New Guinea. Nineteen different languages are spoken on the island, and it is divided by a chain of mountains into three distinct regions: northern, central, and southeastern. The art of New Ireland traditionally centered on mortuary ceremonies and feasts to honor the dead. In northern New Ireland, the name given to these elaborate ceremonies is malagan, which is also the term used for the carved and painted sculptures associated with the ceremonies.
832-381119 - Old woman in the kitchen, kettle on an open fire place in the lodge, mountain tribe or mountain people Pa-O or Pa-Oh or Pao or Black Karen or Taungthu or dew-soo, ethnic minority, near Kalaw, Shan State, Myanmar, Asia
832-381207 - Young Asian woman with Indian jewelry at a festival with headdress, Chiang Rai Festival, Chiang Rai Province, Northern Thailand, Thailand, Asia
832-381820 - Wat Phra Dhammakaya temple on Makha Bucha Day or Magha Puja Day, Theravada Buddhists, monks sitting around the Chedi Mahadhammakaya Cetiya, Khlong Luang District, Pathum Thani, Bangkok, Thailand, Asia *** IMPORTANT: Image may not be used in a negative context with the Dhammakaya temple ***
832-382073 - Thermal springs of Benjë, River Lengarica, Lengaricë, near Përmet, National Park Hotova-Dangell, behind the Nemërçka Mountains, Qar Gjirokastra, Gjirokastër, Albania, Europe
832-382212 - Wat Phra Dhammakaya temple on Makha Bucha Day or Magha Puja Day, Theravada Buddhists, monks sitting around the Chedi Mahadhammakaya Cetiya, Khlong Luang District, Pathum Thani, Bangkok, Thailand, Asia *** IMPORTANT: Image may not be used in a negative context with the Dhammakaya temple ***
832-382020 - Aerial view, landing at Suvarnabhumi airport, rice paddies at Samuth Prakan, Samut Prakan, view from the aircraft, Bangkok, Thailand, Asia
832-381442 - Old woman of mountain tribe or mountain people Pa-O or Pa-Oh or Pao or Black Karen or Taungthu or dew-soo, ethnic minority, portrait, near Kalaw, Shan State, Myanmar, Asia