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Title: Head Hunters from South Sea Islands.
Creator: Dobbin, Hamilton Henry, 1856-1930
Date Created and/or Issued: 1905
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: V1p281a
In PHOTO ALBUM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. I, page 281 top.
This photograph is contained in one of two volumes by Dobbin titled "Album of San Francisco."
Text written under photo: "Igorities or Head Hunters from South Sea Islands on board S.S. Nippon Meur [Maru?] 1905." Photo shows a group of South Sea natives, including two children, in mostly native dress on the deck of a ship. Steamer trunks are piled up on deck to the left.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photoprint ; 4 1/8 x 6 5/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001380892CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-4150
Subject: Nihon Maru (Ship)
Igorot (Philippine people)
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Group portraits
Place: San Francisco (Calif.)

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