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92 photos and 14 illustrations tagged culture, from 13 members of Flickr Commons.

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• smithsonianinstitution
• nationalmuseumoftheamericanindian
• powwow
• nativeamerican
• traditional
• dance
• aboriginal
• heritage
• blackandwhitephotograph
• event
• indigenous
• queensland
• blackandwhite
• indian
• history
• woman
• ancient
• aboriginalculture
• torres
• historical
• religion
• church
• naidoc
• firstnations

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• Smithsonian Institution 30 photos & illustrations
• Navy Medicine 19 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 19 photos & illustrations
• North East Museums 12 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Medicine 11 photos & illustrations
• U.S. National Archives 4 photos & illustrations
• British Library 3 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 2 photos & illustrations
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 2 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1 photo / illustration
• Florida Memory 1 photo / illustration
• The National Archives UK 1 photo / illustration

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Large group of men and children in front of huts, Thursday Island

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  The traditional people of Torres Strait are of Melanesian origin and speak two distinct languages. They are distinct from Aboriginal Australians living on the mainland. Over the past 25 years, archaeologists working in the Torres Strait have found evidence of human settlement dating back 2,500 years. Torres Strait is named after a Spanish captain, Torres, who sailed through the strait in 1606 on his way to the Philippines. For many Australians, the Torres Strait Islands are best known as the birth place of Eddie Koiki Mabo. Born on the island of Mer, Mabo became famous for his work campaigning for Indigenous land rights and for his role in a landmark decision of the High Court of Australia that overturned the legal doctrine of terra nullius ("land belonging to nobody"), which had characterised Australian law with regard to land and title. As a result of that case, the islands were the first place in Australia where Native Title was recognised under Australian law. Mabo died of cancer in 1992, at the age of 55, five months before the High Court overturned "terra nullius", which eventually led to the creation of various forms of land rights laws for Indigenous Australians. Source: The people and history of the Torres Strait Islands Published24 August 2015 www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-34037235

Untitled

from Smithsonian Institution

• Highfalutin Holiday said:

  This would look so great in our: What's Your Holiday Thread!

• Criz Stoddard said:

  This image has been used in the indicommons.org post: Black History across the Commons - Part 1
  
  

Coral Gables: The Global City of the Future

from Florida Memory

• kristavanichinnsamy said:

  Wonderful Video's.