Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Mbuti pygmy initiation hunt, with two boys in traditional blue body paint and straw skirt. One boy is holding catch of Blue Duiker (Philantomba monticola) Ituri Rainforest, Democratic Republic of the...

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Mbuti pygmy initiation hunt, with two boys in traditional blue body paint and straw skirt. One boy is holding catch of Blue Duiker (Philantomba monticola) Ituri Rainforest, Democratic Republic of the...

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Mbuti pygmy initiation hunt, with two boys in traditional blue body paint and straw skirt. One boy is holding catch of Blue Duiker (Philantomba monticola) Ituri Rainforest, Democratic Republic of the...

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Mbuti pygmy initiation hunt, with two boys in traditional blue body paint and straw skirt. One boy is holding catch of Blue Duiker (Philantomba monticola) Ituri Rainforest, Democratic Republic of the...

Oriol Alamany / Traditional dancer at the Fiesta de la Lengua, Hanga Roa village, Easter Island (Pascua / Rapa Nui), Pacific ocean, November 2004

Piper Mackay / Young Embera Indian man dressed in self made traditional beaded skirt, Panama, November 2008

Piper Mackay / Young Embera Indian man heading down the Chagres River, dressed in the traditional beaded skirt (of the Panama flag) Panama, November 2008

Piper Mackay / Young Embera Indian man wearing a traditional beaded skirt, creating handicrafts, Panama, November 2008

Juergen Freund / Woman walking home in the rain wearing the local Pandanus mat skirt, Tonga, Melanesia, 2007

Michele Westmorland / Young woman demonstrates traditional jewellery and grass skirt for tourists, Rano Island, Vanuatu May 2008

PREMAPHOTOS / Leaf-tailed gecko (Uroplatus fimbriatus) perfectly camouflaged on a tree, helped by the 'skirt' of tiny projections around the body and limbs visible here, in rainforest, Madagascar

Juergen Freund / Female dancer at Sing-Sing celebration with tapa cloth skirt shell jewellery. Tufi, Oro Province, Papua New Guinea