Traditional festival posters & prints

December, the month of the sun god festival Felipe Huaman Poma de Ayala

Mahommedan festival Buckra Ede or Baqr-i-Id (Cow Festival), held at Naini-Tal Anonymous

Country Festival, 1881 Ilya Efimovich Repin

The Chait Festival Unknown

Religious Festival in Caieli, Buru Island French School

Grand Conventional Festival of the Britons Robert Havell

Religious Festival at Benares Anonymous

Raja Chattar Singh of Kota riding in a procession Unknown

Baird's Harvest Festival Anonymous

Dragon-boat festival performance, 18th-19th century Unknown

Dragon Festival, 1996 Komi Chen

Tapestry depicting the Dragon Boat Festival Unknown

Coorg Harvest Festival, Madras Anonymous

Ceremony Indian School

The Harihar Kshetra Festival Sewak Ram

The Vintage Festival Robert Frederick Blum

The Feast of Lanterns Celebration in Chinatown, Pacific Grove, California. Anonymous

Swing Festival Indian School

Fight between Carnival and Lent, 1559, detail Pieter the Elder Bruegel

Feast of the Thugs Anonymous

Fight between Carnival and Lent, 1559, detail Pieter the Elder Bruegel

Peter King Brian O'Connor

The Wine Festival, 1865 Anonymous

The Salmon Festival, Columbia River, c.1888 Thomas Hill

Peel Viking Festival Manx Press Pictures

The Village Festival Claude Lorrain

The Tourist Reading Rock Festival 1979 Staff

Festive dressed Indian men with gamelan in Ambon, Indonesia Anonymous

The Procession Cesare Saccaggi

Hippy outfit Anonymous

Village Festival Anonymous

The Village Fete Jean Charles Meissonier

The Return of the Procession of the Madonna of the Arc, near Naples, 1827 Louis Leopold Robert

Women in festival attire, Melanesia George Brown

The Sand-Carrying Festival, 1856 Sakai Basai

Women Carrying Umbrellas and Offerings at the Head of a Procession During a Cherry Blossom Festival Anonymous