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[Two native men posed, full-length, Hapao?, Ifugao, Philippine Islands] – Antique Print

[Two native men posed, full-length, Hapao?, Ifugao, Philippine Islands], [between 1920 and 1925?] — historic photograph
[Two native men posed, full-length, Hapao?, Ifugao, Philippine Islands], [between 1920 and 1925?]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Hapao, a farming community in the Ifugao highlands of northern Luzon, is the place named in this picture's title, and the two men stand full-length before the camera. The caption card dates the photograph to roughly 1920 to 1925, but that information is unverified and the date is uncertain. The Philippines was then an American territory, and photographers working under colonial administration often recorded highland peoples as ethnographic types, which shaped how subjects were posed and presented. Ifugao communities are widely known for the stone-walled rice terraces they built on steep mountain slopes, a landscape that remains central to their identity today.

Created / published[between 1920 and 1925?]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan967 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-108860

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