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[Arnold Genthe and wife of Penri II, chief of the Ainus] – Historic Print

[Arnold Genthe and wife of Penri II, chief of the Ainus], [1908] — historic photograph
[Arnold Genthe and wife of Penri II, chief of the Ainus], [1908]. 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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A woman identified as the wife of Penri II, a chief of the Ainu, stands beside Arnold Genthe in this 1908 gelatin silver print. Genthe, a German-born photographer who worked in San Francisco and New York, traveled in Japan in the late 1900s and turned his camera on the Ainu, the indigenous people of Hokkaido and the northern islands. Portraits like this one were made at a time when Western photographers often framed Ainu subjects as exotic types, so the picture's record of a named family and a leader's household is worth noticing.

Created / published[1908]
Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900-1910.Group portraits 1900-1910.Gelatin silver prints 1900-1910.
NotesArnold Genthe Collection (Library of Congress). Unprocessed in PR 6 CN 347
SubjectsGenthe, Arnold,--1869-1942. Ainu--Women--Japan--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan761 × 927 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-199773

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