The kutiyapi, or kudyapi, is an indianized Filipino two-stringed, fretted boat-lute. It is the only stringed instrument among the Maguindanao people, and one of several among other groups such as the Maranao and Manobo.
The Igorot (also Cordillerano) are an indigenous people living on the Philippine island of Luzon.
Chinese National Day. Tien An Men parade 1954. National Day, October 1- here in Pecking’s Tien An Men Square, Chairman Mao Tse-tung reviews the marching columns of the paraders. Source:… Read More
The Farasia, Kaftan. This garment is a shirt-dress with wide sleeves, it is buttoned over the chest.
This hooded garment serves as an outer dress and replaces the burnoose or sulham.
A Group of Sutars, Carpenters, Bengal. Mongolo-Dravidian Type.
Limbu. Male and female.
A Lama woman from the Tibetan frontier: Mongoloid Type. From a Photograph by Messrs. Johnston and Hoffmann, Calcutta. A Female Tibetan Lama with amulets. An amulet is a portable object… Read More
A Guffa was a traditional, usually plaited reeds, round basket boat, which was used on the Tigris and Euphrates in Iraq until the 1970s.
Marriage Hut of Arab Fellahin with the Newly Married Couple.
