Lalung, Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1871
Reference:
19788i
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Six women, four standing, two squatting, outside thatched huts. To the left of the frame two large earthenware pots, on the extreme right a pyramidal wooden structure

Publication/Creation

1871.

Physical description

1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion : stereograph

Lettering

Old Pe-po-hoan women, Lan-long, Formosa, 1871. Aborigines, Formosa Bears Thomson's negative number: "764"

Notes

This is one of a collection of original glass negatives made by John Thomson. The negatives, made between 1868 and 1872, were purchased from Thomson by Sir Henry Wellcome in 1921

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19788i

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