Eduardo Masferre photographs of the Luzon Cordillera
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 91-30
name: label: Creator
content: Masferré, E. (Eduardo), 1909-1995
place: label: Place
content: Cordillera Administrative Region (Philippines)
label: Place
content: Philippines
topic: label: Topic
content: Basket making
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content: Tobacco
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content: Tattooing
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content: Pottery craft
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content: Textile fabrics
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content: Weaving
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content: Rites and ceremonies
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content: Dance
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content: Agriculture
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content: Cooking
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content: Dwellings
label: Topic
content: Musical instruments
creator: label: Creator
content: Masferré, E. (Eduardo), 1909-1995
culture: label: Culture
content: Igorot (Philippine people)
label: Culture
content: Kalinga (Philippine people)
label: Culture
content: Bontoks (Philippine people)
label: Culture
content: Ifugao (Philippine people)
label: Culture
content: Gaddang (Philippine people)
label: Culture
content: Kankanay (Philippine people)
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Eduardo Masferre (1909-1995) was born in the Gran Cordillera Central region of Luzon to a Spanish father and native Filipino mother from the Kankanai tribe. Between 1914 and 1921, the Masferre family lived in Spain, where Eduardo began his education. After completing his schooling in the Philippines, Masferre followed in his father's footsteps and became a missionary teacher and then a missionary administrator in Sagada. He began photographing the mountain tribes in 1934, documenting traditions that he feared would be lost. After World War II, he opened a photographic studio in Bontok, selling studio portraits as well as photographs of nearby villages. In 1988, a book of his photographs, E. Masferre: People of the Philippine Cordillera, was produced.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 152 Prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1934-1956
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: 103 prints donated by Eduardo Masferre to the Department of Anthropology, with additional funds from Mobil Oil Company, 1991; Masferre donated 49 additional prints at the same time.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.91-30
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Collection also includes copy negatives, made from the prints.
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Photographs published in Jill Gale de Villa, Maria Teresa Garcia-Farr, and Gladys Montgomery, E. Masferre: People of the Philippine Cordillera, Photographs, 1934-1956, Manila: Devcon I.P. Inc., 1988; and Paul Michael Taylor, "Eduardo Masferre, Photographer of Highland Luzon," Discovery: The Magainze of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History 25, no. 2, 1995.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: List with references to photos published in Jill Gale de Villa's book on the Masferre photographs, available in repository.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs made by Eduardo Masfere documenting the lives and culture of the Igorot (mountain) people, mainly Bontok and Kalinga. There are also a few photographs that relate to the Gaddang, Ifugao, and Kankanai peoples. Many of the photographs are portraits, though others show pipes and tobacco use, basketry and weaving, ceremonies, and agriculture.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: A photograph of Masferre held in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot R92-43.