Portrait of Eduardo Masferre that he selected for inclusion in an exhibit of his photographs in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in 1992.
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, from which he sold his studio portraits as well as photographs of nearby villages. E. Masferre: People of the Philippine Cordillera, a book of Masferre's photographs published in 1988, was co-written by Maria Teresa Garcia-Farr.
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Photo Lot R92-43, Maria Teresa Garcia-Farr portrait of Eduardo Masferre, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Donated by Maria Teresa Garcia-Farr through Paul M. Taylor, 1992.
Masferre photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 91-30.