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Life in Color: Communities Celebrate Local Tradition

Around the world, cultural events keep traditions alive.

Erkhembayar Altanbanzragch, 11, poses on a camel at the Thousand Camel Festival in Dalanzadgad, Umnugovi province, Mongolia.

Uranchimeg Tsogkhuu, GPJ Mongolia

Alma Velasquez Huichulef, an Afro-descendant activist, teaches African dance in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Lucila Pellettieri, GPJ Argentina

From left, Oldia Louis, Jovany Gerard and Petherson Fleurant, members of the Haitian National Theater dance group, perform during the inauguration of a cultural center in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Anne Myriam Bolivar, GPJ Haiti

Rarámuri women, who belong to one of the largest indigenous groups in northern Mexico, attend Mass on Good Friday in Norogachi, Chihuahua, Mexico.

Lilette A. Contreras, GPJ Mexico

Edward Sakala dances to traditional drumming at the Chibwela Kumushi Ceremony of the Soli in Chinyunyu, Lusaka, Zambia. The annual ceremony, led by Chief Bunda Bunda, signifies the beginning of the farming season.

Prudence Phiri, GPJ Zambia

Musicians play devotional music at Swayambhunath stupa, in Kathmandu, Nepal. During the Gunla, a holy month for Newar Buddhists, musical groups play at holy places.

Shilu Manandhar, GPJ Nepal

Axin Mazatl, left, and Cozca Kuahutli sprinkle seeds into censers filled with copal resin at a ceremony at the Tepalcayotl pyramid in Puebla, Mexico.

Patricia Zavala Gutiérrez, GPJ Mexico

Ali Kasimu, a representative for the groom’s family, offers gifts to girls in gomesi dresses at a traditional wedding ceremony known as kwanjula, in Kampala, Uganda.

Nakisanze Segawa, GPJ Uganda

A performer carries an iguana on his shoulder during the Feast of Corpus Christi, a Zoque religious festival, in Suchiapa, Chiapas, Mexico.

Marissa Revilla, GPJ Mexico

Aselbek Manaa poses with his eagle in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The Kazakhs of western Mongolia have preserved their tradition of taming eagles and hold annual eagle festivals.

Nansalmaa Oyunchimeg, GPJ Mongolia

Patience Bhani, right, holds incense during a 90th-anniversary celebration of the Anglican Church in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.

Fortune Moyo, GPJ Zimbabwe

Revelers carry a statue of Lord Murugan during Skanda Sashti, a Hindu festival, outside a temple in Kodikamam, Jaffna, Sri Lanka. On the sixth day of the festival, devotees celebrate the deity’s victory over evil.

Vijayatharsiny Thinesh, GPJ Sri Lanka

Chinbat Gonchigjamts, right, aims a bow during a provincial tournament of Uriankhai, one of three types of traditional Mongolian archery, on a frozen river in Murun, Khuvsgul province, Mongolia.

Dolgormaa Sandagdorj, GPJ Mongolia

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