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Huli Wigmen, Papua New Guinea: This tribe’s incredible hats are actually made from their own hair, with men in this isolated 40,000-strong group ‘harvesting’ their mane for their own use or to sell to others.
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Chimbu Skeleton Dancers, Papua New Guinea: It may be a look we're familiar with, but this tribe’s skeleton dances originated to intimidate enemy tribes in what is a hotly-contested and highly-territorial country.
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Nenet, Siberia: This group of around 10,000 nomads are pretty hardy – they move 300,000 reindeer on a 1,100km migration around an area one-and-a-half times the size of France, in temperatures down to minus 50 degrees Celsius.
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Asaro mud men: These mud-covered men are not aiming for the perfect complexion, they slap on the brown stuff because they believe it makes them look like spirits and it terrifies the other indigenous groups in the area.
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Himba herders, Namibia: Semi-nomadic, the Himba live scattered across northwest Namibia and southern Angola.
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Kazakh golden eagle hunters: They use eagles to hunt foxes, marmots and wolves and wear furs of the prey they catch, with boys starting at the age of 13, when they can prove they can carry the weight of a golden eagle.
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Bayaka, Central African Republic: Living by the ‘Jengi’, the spirit of the forest, the Aya have rich knowledge of herbal medicine but use their own language and hunting traditions.
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Maasai: Maasai, Kenya and Tanzania. The Maasai tribe constitutes an indigenous ethnic ensemble in Africa, which include semi-nomadic populations.
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