1) Members of the Ifugao Tribe of Luzon, The Largest Island of the Philippines, at Work in a Rice-Field: Natives who employ the Marvellous System of Terrace Culvation Constructed on the Hill-Sides by their Ancestors centuries ago. 2) With a row of baskets slung from a beam beneath the hut to receive the heads of his enemies: The Pyramidal and Eat-proof Home of an Ifugao Head-Hunter. 3) “Dogs, Dogs for Sale! Nice Dogs, Excellent Meat; Come Buy Dogs, Dogs, Dogs!”: A Dog-Market Among the Ifugao, Who Love Dog Meat, and consider it better still if the animal has been killed slowly by torture. 4) The Strange Funerary Customs of the Ifugao: A Dead Man arranged in a sitting position before his hut, and exposed for twenty-four days before burial. 5) With an enemy’s severed head fixed between a buffalo’s horns on the top of an upright rod; An Ifugao Priest in a trance beneath the trophy, and Tribesmen clustered round him.

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Author: anonymous

Publisher: 'The Illustrated London News', London.

Year: 1934

Size: 36.1 x 25.1 cm page

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sepia photoprints on full page with accompanying text. Original complete page with views from ‘The Illustrated London News’, March 31, 1934 issue; p. 492. Founded by Herbert Ingram and first published on Saturday 14 May 1842, it was the world’s first illustrated magazine. The ILN was published weekly for most of its existence, switched to a less frequent publication schedule in 1971, and eventually ceased publication in 2003. The company continues today as Illustrated London News Ltd, a publishing, content, and digital agency in London, which holds the publication and business archives of the magazine. Charles Wirgman (1832-1891) was an English artist and cartoonist, the creator of the Japan Punch and illustrator in China, the Philippine Islands, and Meiji period-Japan for the Illustrated London News.

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excellent condition.

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