On a warm afternoon in a remote village, with the sound of drums filling the surrounding, suddenly meeting people happily carrying knife-cut scars all over their bodies is not a rare sight to witness.

Painting with chalk -- Chalk & ocher -- Colors of the earth -- Ocher bodies -- Red ocher -- Ocher & oil -- Powdered with ash -- Patterns of beauty -- Spirit paint -- Painting for seduction "The ...

BROCKTON – On one of the loosely bunched islands of Cape Verde, formed by volcanoes aggressively erupting from the ocean floor, Nuno Ribeiro was born. The young boy living in Praia would one day ...

"The Fine Cut" is a re-created barbershop poster that depicts two kinds of cuts — hairstyles of African-American men and ritual scarification of African faces. (Vivian Doering) How do I describe my ...