Feb 14, 2017 - Sale 2436

Sale 2436 - Lot 258

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
(PHILIPPINES)
A group of 59 photographs of the Philippines, including many individual and group portraits of natives, and the surrounding culture.
With scenes of indigenous Filipinos clad in tribal dress, a Hell-themed parade float, and a pair of native men wearing loincloths and clutching drums decorated with jaw bones and teeth. Also included are photographs documenting the colonization of the Philippines. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 4 1/2x6 1/4 inches (11.4x15.9 cm.), and smaller, and the reverse, about 40 with a caption or numeric notation, in pencil, on verso. 1900-12