Ti dance troupe member wearing the distinctive inverted U shape and the clipped white cockatoo feathers of the Dhari headdress
The Torres Strait Islands are a group of islands numbering more than 100 which lie in Torres Strait the waterway separating Cape York Queensland Australia from Papua New Guinea The islands are part of the State of Queensland The indigenous inhabitants of the islands Torres Strait Islanders are Melanesian culturally akin to the coastal people of Papua distinguishable from the Aboriginal people of the rest of Australia The administrative centre of the islands is Thursday Island It was at Possession Island that Captain James Cook first claimed British sovereignty over the eastern part of Australia in 1770 The Torres Strait Islands group include Thursday Island Waiben Horn Island Prince of Wales Island Banks Island Mulgrave Island Murray Island Mer Traditional first people land claim beautiful amazing coloured colored adorned adornment advertising anthropology body paint painting ceremony dance decoration decorated display ethnic ethnology exhibit exhibited feathers travel holiday vacation trip exotic unusual off the beaten track festival show performance men boys painted up elder teaching young boys hunt hunting history tribe tribal ethnic minority pride bright flowers floral headdress garland grass skirt fiber old elder chief indigenous national native racial traditional tribal
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