bontoc

Antonio, Chief of Bontoc Igorot (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• swanq said:

  See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igorot_people#The_Bontoc "The Bontoc live on the banks of the Chico River in the Central Mountain Province on the island of Luzon. "

• swanq said:

  If you look carefully, you can see his tattoos -- geometric patterns.

• Seuss. said:

  Likely taken at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (St. Louis Worlds Fair.) a little more about Antonio The success of the Igorot (or Igorotte) exhibit (polite term for putting people in zoos) led to Igorot Exhibitions in San Francisco in 1905, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909, and the Worlds Fair in Ghent in 1913 - probably a few others as well.

• Art Siegel said:

  Here's a souvenir booklet from the 1904 Igorot Village exhibition in St. Louis, apparently the most popular exhibit at the fair: books.google.com/books?id=tOswAQAAMAAJ&pg=PT5&lpg... And a scholarly look at "ogling the Igarots" wst498.webs.com/Vaughan.pdf