Therefore, we first establish a Thangka data set called RPTK1 (Religious Portrait Thangka Version 1), which contains 3,338 Thangka images, more than any other Thangka data set. The objects in the data ...

Accoutrements allude to high rank. The figure wears a fine headdress, which resembles high status headdresses with burls, a collar-like neck ornament, and a bracelet on the left arm. It holds a ...

The first-ever winner of talent show competition “Japan’s Got Talent” is having a stacked year with two noh and opera productions and her 10th anniversary album release.

The Angiakmin Culture Group, made up of performers from the villages of Bolivip and Biangabip in the Olsobip Local Level Government (LLG), showcased their traditional dances at the Sel Kambang ...

A collection of 37 items gifted to former Mornington Island residents in the 1970s will be taken thousands of kilometres home after decades in the dark.

Ask a Westerner for an example of a successful Chinese consumer-goods brand, and until recently most would have struggled. Although China is the world’s premier manufacturing power, it has long ...

The festival’s centrepiece will be the creation of traditional floral headdresses, along with the premiere of a new musical work by Malmesbury music teacher Debbie Cambray-Smith.

Hundreds of Ukrainians observed the longest day of the year on Saturday with a midsummer celebration of some of their oldest traditions, a display of cultural perseverance in a nation threatened ...

The Oluwo of Iwoland, Ọba Abdulrasheed Adewale Akanbi, has emphasised the significance of headgear in Yoruba culture, describing it as a ...

For indigenous people, everything from the word “America” to the insulting ways native symbols are used is a reminder of how those of European ancestry nearly killed a culture—and still ...