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(JAPAN) Group of 11 striking photographs of indigenous Aino (Hokkaido) peoples. Unmounted albumen prints, 8x10 1/4 inches (20.3x26 cm.), and the reverse, 10 are hand-colored and 10 with captions, in English, in the negative. 1890s
From the Estate of Fong Chow. The hand-colored views include: #1374, Penriuku, Aino Chief, Piratori #1373, Aino playing on Samisen, Pirotori #1366, Aino Women, Monbetsu #1718, Ainos Farmhouse #1321, Fishers, Ishikari #1365, Aino on Horse, Saru River #1385, Aino Rowing Boat, Saru River #1302, Aino Women, Saru #1363, Aino [men], Saru #1364, Aino Girls Carrying child and an unidentified, untinted view of Aino figures in a vessel on a river.
