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Bulletin

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology · 1901 · Washington : G.P.O. · 13 pictures

This is a plate-based bulletin from the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology, published in Washington by the Government Printing Office in 1901 as an official ethnological record. The four-photograph plates show Jivaro people in Ecuador and Peru, in portraits, at work in fields and carrying loads. A designer might take from them the plain, documentary photo-grid layout with numbered captions, and the close, unposed poses of people against forest and hill backdrops.

Ethnology

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