Photo of the Day 378

Tribal Dancers, Ndumu Game Reserve, South Africa, 1996

Photograph by Chris Johns

Dance for South Africa's Zulu is like storytelling, with each movement imbued with historical and cultural significance. Here, the crimson skirt of a tribeswoman sways during a performance at the Ndumu Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "A Place for Parks in the New South Africa," July 1996, National Geographic magazine)