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Ifugao women weaving. Photograph by Roy F. Barton, 1906-16 (15-6362).
One of the more important ethnographic collections from the museum's first two decades comes from the Philippines, then an American territory. Most of it was made by the "pagan peoples" of northern Luzon, who farmed rice terraces, supplemented by hunting and fishing. Isolated from Spanish cultural influences, they lived in autonomous settlements run by councils of elders. This display features the collection of Roy F. Barton. In 1906, the 23-year old Barton went to the Philippines as a teacher. Upon returning to the U.S. in 1916, he studied dentistry at the University of California, where he befriended Alfred Kroeber and other members of its anthropology department. Barton's is one of several Philippine collections made in the 1910s that were later donated to the University.
Ifugao women transplanting rice from seed bed to field. Photograph by Roy F. Barton, 1906-16 (15-17709).
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