Philippines Bureau of Science photographs of Philippine peoples
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 81-58B
name: label: Creator
content: Philippines. Bureau of Science
label: Collector
content: Bean, Robert Bennett
label: Photographer
content: Martin, Charles, 1877-1957
label: Photographer
content: Worcester, Dean Conant
place: label: Place
content: Philippines
creator: label: Creator
content: Philippines. Bureau of Science
culture: label: Culture
content: Philippine Negritos
label: Culture
content: Subanuns
label: Culture
content: Tinguian (Philippine people)
label: Culture
content: Moro
label: Culture
content: Hanunoo (Philippine people)
label: Culture
content: Ifugao (Philippine people)
label: Culture
content: Bagobo (Philippine people)
label: Culture
content: Igorot (Philippine people)
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: The Philippine Bureau of Science, originally called the Bureau of Government Laboratories, was established to promote Philippine commercial and industrial resources and disseminate scientific and technical information.  The Division of Ethnology, originally the Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes, was transferred to the Bureau of Science in 1906, expanding its mission to include the islands' peoples.  Charles Martin was an official photographer with the Bureau of Science from around 1901-1915, after which he became a staff photographer with the National Geographic Magazine until 1940.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 162 (lantern slides)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1900-1910
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Robert Bennett Bean, an anatomist who was employed in the Philippines between 1907 and 1910.  The lantern slides were possibly used by Ales Hrdlicka in lectures, circa 1910.  Transferred from the Department of Anthropology Processing Lab to the National Anthropological Archives, 1981.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.81-58B
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Lantern slides
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Photographs published in Albert Ernest Jenk, "The Bontoc Igorot," Department of the Interior Ethnological Survey Publications, vol. 1, Manila: Bureau of Public Printing, 1905. Also published in works by Dean C. Worcester and the Philippine Journal of Science.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Lantern slides
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs relating to Philippine peoples, including Ifugao, Ilongot, Philippine Negrito, Hanunoo (Mangyan), Subanun, Igorot, Tinguian, Samal Moro, and Bagobo.  Images depict clothing, body decoration, and scenery, and many are frontal and profile portraits of individuals.  The collection also includes some lantern slides of maps of the Philippines, as well as a photocopy of a booklet with the price list for photographs.

Most of the lantern slides were prepared by Charles Martin. Some are from negatives by Martin but others are possibly by researchers with whom he worked, including Philippine Secretary of the Interior Dean C. Worcester.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional Bureau of Science photographs can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 87-18.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs by Worcester can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 8 and Photo Lot 97.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The University of Michigan Library holds Dean C. Worcester's papers and photographs of the Philippines.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology holds film by Worcester and Martin.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Peabody Essex Museum also holds photographs by Charles Martin.