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Vermont maple syrup.

Barbecued meats, Texas.

Sheila Kay Adams, story teller, banjo player and NEA Heritage Fellowship recipient.

Preparing for local ceremony, Kosrae, Federated States of Micronesia.

Donald Chosa Jr. Traditional rice gathering in Minnesota, Mark Sauer.

The Smithsonian Folklife Festival, 2002.

Nansemond tribal members recognised by the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1985.

Hula performance, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

Carnival of Binche

Verandah at Gilan Rural Museum in Iran.

Ritual music, Jongmyo jeryeak

Puppets in the Museo internazionale delle marionette Antonio Pasqualino.

Carnival of Binche

Traditional cooking demonstration at Gilan Rural Museum in Iran.

Layout of the exhibition space.

Exhibition introduction label graphic

Tuvalu skirt

Belau dance costume in the foreground

Dance skirt, dance belt and breast plate

Eharo masks

Detail from the San rock paintings in the Linton Panel. This figure provided the basis for the central motif in the South African Coat of Arms, acknowledging the cultural heritage of San hunter-gatherers and their descendents.

The Linton Panel of San rock paintings, 18th or 19th century, Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town. The complex paintings of the Linton panel reflect the intangible beliefs and cosmology of the San people, the earliest inhabitants of the African subcontinent.