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  • A painting in the original National Geographic headquarters in Washington DC depicts the original founders gathering around a table in that same room.
    DCe 111203-192.jpg
  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. Sherpa painting  of Tengboche Monastery by artist Kappa Kalden, including monks, trekkers, yaks, yetis, nearby villages & Mount Everest vicinity of Khumbu region.
    S 1209.jpg
  • An idyllic painting shows the Amazon River Jungle.
    PEe 091114-010-2.jpg
  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley.  Prize-winning painting in "Blue Valley Festival" sponsored by BioRegions, International, a non-profit working on cultural preservation in the region.
    MGe 060706-001.jpg
  • Stone painting at Ganden Monastery in Ulaanbaator, Mongolia.
    MGe 060624-042.jpg
  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. Sherpa painting by artist Kappa Kalden, depicting a yeti beside Pangboche Monastery & Mount Everest, Khumbu region.
    S 1220.jpg
  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA, Tibetan Buddhist painting of wrathful deity at Sherpa's Tengboche Monastery, Khumbu region.
    S 1005.jpg
  • NEPAL, Kathmandu. Tibetan Buddhist painting at Bodhnath stupa.
    KM 2366.jpg
  • A Chinese couple stands in the door of their new roadside restaurant and truck stop between Nyingchi and Lhasa, Tibet.  The painted sign reads in both Tibetan (above) and Chinese.
    CF 2308.jpg
  • Paintings of classic exploration overhang the stairs leading to the formal boardroom at the National Geographic headquarters in Washington, DC.  Decending the stairs is Expeditions Council advisory board member Anne Giesecke.
    DCe 111203-260.jpg
  • Ornate paintings decorate the ceiling of Saint Nicholas Church in Iscghl, Austria.
    EU 2546.jpg
  • Ornate paintings and sculpture decorate Saint Nicholas Church in Iscghl, Austria.
    EU 2530.jpg
  • Anne Kershaw and Fran Orlo admire a birthday card painted by Conrad Anker (not shown) in the dinning tent at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills expediton base.
    AX 2854.jpg
  • An Amazon Indian woman of the Bora tribe near Iquitos, Peru, prepares to dance for tourists - perhaps a sideline to a more modern, workaday job.
    PEe 091108-590-2.jpg
  • Amazon Indians of the Bora tribe near Iquitos, Peru prepare to dance for tourists - often a sideline to more modern workaday jobs.
    PEe 091108-574-2.jpg
  • Amazon Indians of the Bora tribe near Iquitos, Peru dance for tourists - often a sideline to more modern workaday jobs.
    PEe 091108-558-2.jpg
  • Amazon Indians of the Bora tribe near Iquitos, Peru prepare to dance for tourists - perhaps a sideline to more modern workaday jobs.
    PEe 091108-542-2.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies 2700+ year-old,  khirigsur burial mound at site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.  An ancient Deer Stone stands in foreground (from same era).<br />
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    MGe 060701-032.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies 2700+ year-old,  khirigsur burial mound at site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.  An ancient Deer Stone stands in foreground (from same era).<br />
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MS0702_060701_0017.NEF
    MGe 060701-030.jpg
  • A Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies a 2700+ year-old,  khirigsur burial mound at a site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.  An ancient Deer Stone stands in the foreground (from the same era).
    MGe 060701-029.jpg
  • A Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies a 2700+ year-old,  khirigsur burial mound at a site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.  An ancient Deer Stone stands in the foreground (from the same era).
    MGe 060701-021.jpg
  • A Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies a 2700+ year-old,  khirigsur burial mound at a site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.  An ancient Deer Stone stands in the foreground (from the same era).
    MGe 060701-020.jpg
  • Smithsonian Museum archaeologist Christina Leece & Tovuudorj Sanjmyatov ("Sasha") (MR), a famed pioneer of Monolian archaeology, unearth a 2700+ year-old khirigsur burial mound at Ulaan Tolgoi site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-042.jpg
  • Nearby a summer thundershower, a Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies a 2700+ year-old khirigsur burial mound at Ulaan Tolgoi, near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-040.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies 2700+ year-old,  khirigsur burial mound at Ulaan Tolgai site near Lake Erkhel & Muren.  <br />
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MS0702_060630_0240.NEF
    MGe 060630-038.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies 2700+ year-old,  khirigsur burial mound at Ulaan Tolgai site near Lake Erkhel & Muren.  <br />
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MS0702_060630_0234.NEF
    MGe 060630-037.jpg
  • Nearby a summer thundershower, a Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies a 2700+ year-old khirigsur burial mound at Ulaan Tolgoi, near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-036.jpg
  • Smithsonian Museum archaeologist Dr. William Fitzhugh & Tovuudorj Sanjmyatov ("Sasha") (MR), a famed pioneer of Monolian archaeology, study a 2700+ year-old khirigsur burial mound at Ulaan Tolgoi site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-032.jpg
  • A Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies a 2700+ year-old khirigsur burial mound at Ulaan Tolgoi site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-027.jpg
  • A Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies a 2700+ year-old khirigsur burial mound at Ulaan Tolgoi site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-026.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Dr. William Fitzhugh studies 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones and khirigsur burial mounds at Ulaan Tolgai site near Lake Erkhel & Muren.
    MGe 060630-023.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist Dr. William Fitzhugh studies a 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ulaan Tolgoi, near Lake  Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-020.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ulaan Tolgai site near Lake Erkhel & Muren.  Patterns are probably shamanistic symbols.<br />
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MS0702_060630_0117.NEF
    MGe 060630-005.jpg
  • Mysterious 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stand on a hillside called Ulaan Tolgoi, near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-002.jpg
  • A mysterious, 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stands at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain"), near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-034.jpg
  • Mysterious, 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stand at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain"), near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-032.jpg
  • A mysterious, 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stands at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain"), near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-025.jpg
  • A mysterious, 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stands at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain"), near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-019.jpg
  • A mysterious, 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stands at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain"), near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-012.jpg
  • Mysterious, 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stand at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain"), near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-008.jpg
  • A 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone stands on a hill called Ulaan Tolgoi ("Red Hill"), near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060626-005.jpg
  • Mysterious, 2700+ year-old, Bronze Age deer stones at Ushkin Uver site near Muren, Mongolia
    MGe 060625-004.jpg
  • An elderly Sherpa woman turns a huge prayer wheel at a small temple in Namche Bazaar, the leading town for the  Sherpa culture in Nepal.
    KF 0512.jpg
  • Ornate artwork and gilt sculpture decorates Saint Nicholas Church in Iscghl, Austria.
    EU 2527.jpg
  • CHINA, TIBET. Chinese truck passes Tibetan Buddhist mural on road cut near Tsedang & Yarlung Tsangpo River.
    CF 1703.jpg
  • Bora Indians of the Amazon make bark cloth from palm leaves, which they use for both clothing and artworks, such as this one, depicting sacred anacondas.
    PEe 091108-595-2.jpg
  • The famous Mongolian dance and musical troupe, Tumen Ekh, performs in Ulaanbaatar.
    MGe 080719-302.jpg
  • A Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies a 2700+ year-old,  khirigsur burial mound at a site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.  An ancient Deer Stone stands in the foreground (from the same era).
    MGe 060701-033.jpg
  • A Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies a 2700+ year-old,  khirigsur burial mound at a site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.  An ancient Deer Stone stands in the foreground (from the same era).
    MGe 060701-025.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies 2700+ year-old,  khirigsur burial mound at site beside sheep corrals near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060701-011.jpg
  • A Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies a 2700+ year-old khirigsur burial mound at Ulaan Tolgoi, near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-041.jpg
  • Smithsonian Museum archaeologist Dr. William Fitzhugh & Tovuudorj Sanjmyatov ("Sasha") (MR), a famed pioneer of Monolian archaeology, study a 2700+ year-old khirigsur burial mound at Ulaan Tolgoi site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-033.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Nick Wiltsie reads beside 2700+ year-old deer stone &  khirigsur burial mound at Ulaan Tolgoi site near Lake Erkhel & Muren.
    MGe 060630-031.jpg
  • A mysterious 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone stands on a hillside called Ulaan Tolgoi, near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-004.jpg
  • A mysterious 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone stands on a hillside called Ulaan Tolgoi, near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia. The patterns probably depict a shamanistic breast plate.
    MGe 060630-003.jpg
  • A mysterious, 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stands at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain"), near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-035.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain") site near Muren, in Hovgol Aimag (province). <br />
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    MGe 060629-033.jpg
  • A mysterious, 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stands at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain"), near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-030.jpg
  • A mysterious, 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stands at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain"), near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-021.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain") site near Muren, in Hovgol Aimag (province). <br />
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MS0702_060629_0340.NEF
    MGe 060629-016.jpg
  • Mysterious, 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stand at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain"), near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-005.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain") site near Muren, in Hovgol Aimag (province). <br />
  <br />
MS0702_060629_0252.NEF
    MGe 060629-001.jpg
  • A Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies a 2700+ year-old,  khirigsur burial mound above Delger River, near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060628-047.jpg
  • The National Geographic Expeditions Council Advisory Board member Michael K. "Nick" Nichols whispers about a grant proposal with Program Director O'Shannon Burns during the Council's 2011 meeting in the formal boardroom at Society headquarters in Washington DC.  Director Rebecca Martin sits to the left.
    DCe 111203-209.jpg
  • A painting depicting the founding of the National Geographic Society adorns the wall of a meeting room in the old headquarters building in Washington, DC.
    DCe 111203-182.jpg
  • A whimsical painting decorates the wall of a chalet in the Saint Anton Valley, Austria.
    EU 2602.jpg
  • A beautician at the Summit Lodge Spa paint a facial masque onto a guest at Montana's Big Sky Resort.
    SK 27430.jpg
  • Geothermal heat causes mud to boil in the Fountain Paint Pot at Lower Geyser Basin in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park
    WYe 120621-203.jpg
  • The gilt and painted altar of a relocated historic Russian Orthodox church is preserved in the Malye Korely outdoor museum, near the northern port of Arkhangel'sk.
    RUe 070426-104.jpg
  • The gilt and painted altar of a relocated historic Russian Orthodox church is preserved in the Malye Korely outdoor museum, near the northern port of Arkhangel'sk.
    RUe 070426-103.jpg
  • The gilt and painted altar of a relocated historic Russian Orthodox church is preserved in the Malye Korely outdoor museum, near the northern port of Arkhangel'sk.
    RUe 070426-100.jpg
  • The gilt and painted altar of a relocated historic Russian Orthodox church is preserved in the Malye Korely outdoor museum, near the northern port of Arkhangel'sk.
    RUe 070426-099.jpg
  • A shopkeeper sits amid religious paintings in his store in Lima, Peru.
    PEe 091106-229-2.jpg
  • Painted Turtles (Chrysemys picta) sunbathe on a rock in Lake of the Woods, Ontario, Canada.
    LWe 120809-280.jpg
  • Eastern painted turtle basks in Lake of the Woods, Ontario, Canada.
    LWe 070609-011.jpg
  • Eastern painted turtle basks in Lake of the Woods, Ontario, Canada.
    LWe 070609-003.jpg
  • Eastern painted turtle basks in Lake of the Woods, Ontario, Canada.
    LWe 070609-002.jpg
  • Paintings of classic exploration overhang the stairs leading to the formal boardroom at the National Geographic headquarters in Washington, DC.
    DCe 111203-252.jpg
  • A painted rhea and guanacos decorate a shope in Puerto Natales, Chile.
    CHe 080202-404.jpg
  • A cactus and flowers sprout from a garden outside a house in the Miraflores district of Lima, Peru.
    PEe 091106-314-2.jpg
  • Mongolian archaeologist Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan ("Bayaraa") unearths ancient horse skull in a 2700+ year-old, bronze age  "khirigsuur" burial mound at Ulaan Tolgoi archaeological site near Lake Erkhel, north of Muren, Mongolia., Mongolia., Mongolia.  A deer stone of similar age is in the background.
    MGe 060626-009.jpg
  • A tourist ger camp at Toilogt, beside Lake Hovsgol in Lake Hovsgol National Park, Mongolia.
    MGe 080717-054.jpg
  • Travelers relax and taste wines at the Santa Rita winery near Santiago, Chile.
    CHe 080208-122.jpg
  • A guard restricts access only to Hindus at Hanuman Dhoka Palace in the  the Durbar Squaretemple complex  in Kathmandu, Nepal.
    KM 0725.jpg
  • A guard stands restricts access only to Hindus at Hanuman Dhoka Palace in the  the Durbar Squaretemple complex  in Kathmandu, Nepal.
    KM 1940.jpg
  • A guard stands restricts access only to Hindus at Hanuman Dhoka Palace in the  the Durbar Squaretemple complex  in Kathmandu, Nepal.
    KM 1940.jpg
  • Synchronized contortionists from the famous Mongolian dance and musical troupe, Tumen Ekh, perform in Ulaanbaatar.
    MGe 080719-296.jpg
  • A young Mongolian rides her mountain bike past a tourist ger camp at Toilogt, beside Lake Hovsgol in Lake Hovsgol National Park, Mongolia.
    MGe 080717-155.jpg
  • Chilean men converse beside a wall mural near Pablo Naruda's house in Santiago, Chile.
    CHe 080208-072.jpg
  • A risque magazine graces the counter of a small bar in a hut at Port Lockroy, an abandoned British Science base on Goudier Island, Antarctica that has been restored as a museum.
    ATe 080222-157.jpg
  • Lavish ornamentation and tableware at Catherine's Palace demonstrate the opulence enjoyed by Russia's Czars. This palace at Pushkin (Tsarskoye Selo) was first built in 1717 for Catherine I, but repeatedly rebuilt and/or destroyed.  It has been rebuilt after World War II as a museum.
    ST 5914.jpg
  • A guard stands restricts access only to Hindus at Hanuman Dhoka Palace in the  the Durbar Squaretemple complex  in Kathmandu, Nepal.
    KM 1940.jpg
  • Delegates attend a conference held in an ornate room at the Medici Palace in Florence (Firenze), Italy.
    EU 3112.jpg
  • Tibetan Buddhist painting of Tengboche Monastery, Khumbu, Nepal 1980. Artist: Pasang Norbu. Note Yeti in top center.
    S 1213.jpg
  • Tibetan Buddhist painting of Tengboche Monastery, Khumbu, Nepal 1980. Artist: Pasang Norbu. Note Yeti in top left.
    S 1207.jpg
  • Tibetan Buddhist painting of Tengboche Monastery, Khumbu, Nepal 1980. Artist: Pasang Norbu. Note Yeti in top center.
    S 1202.jpg
  • CHINA, TIBET, Buddhist painting in Drepung Monastery, Lhasa.
    CF 0530.jpg
  • A painting in Tengboche Monastery Mt. Everest pokes up behind the Lhotse Nupste wall in the Khumbu Region of Nepal. 1979
    K 2208.jpg
  • Tibetan Buddhist painting of Tengboche Monastery, Khumbu, Nepal 1980. Artist: Pasang Norbu. Note Yeti in top right..
    S 1302.jpg
  • Sherpa painting of Tengboche Monastery, Khumbu, Nepal 1980. Artist: Pasang Norbu. Note Yeti in top left and Mount Everest top right.
    S 1251.jpg
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