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Chinese "mestizo" couple


Title Details
  • Chinese "mestizo" couple
Subjects
  • Circa 1898
  • Costumes
  • 1898
  • bryan
  • camisa chino
  • chinese
  • costume
  • dog
  • gun
  • half-caste
  • note caption
  • philippine terno
  • spanish
  • traje de mestiza
  • women
Material Type
  • VM
  • Visual material
Online Sources
Collection
  • Filipinas Heritage Library
Image Type
  • Reproduction: Photograph
Item Call Number CL00016
Status Available
Barcode CL00016
Local Free-text Call Number (oclc)
  • Classification number - CL00016
Title Statement
  • Title - Chinese "mestizo" couple
General Note
  • General note - Three teachers pose in their turn-of-the-century ternos. The camisas belong to various periods: those on right and left are bell-shaped, wide and long while that in the middle is already well-defined and very 1920-ish. The sayas are slim and narrow and do not have the wild flare of the serpentina. The dark tapis is definitely anachronistic, being fashionable in the previous century.
Ownership And Custodial History
  • History - Filipinas Heritage Library
Local Note (rlin)
  • Local note - Mestizo boy and girl. The mestizos are half-castes, usually of native mother and Spanish or Chinese fathers. A native author declares, that, as a rule, "the Mestizo girls are often of wonderful beauty," but his imagiation appears to be more vivid than fCaption Note)
Subject Chronological Term
  • Chronological term - Circa 1898
Subject Topical Term
  • Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Costumes
Subject Faceted Topical Term
  • Focus term - 1898
  • Focus term - bryan
  • Focus term - camisa chino
  • Focus term - chinese
  • Focus term - costume
  • Focus term - dog
  • Focus term - gun
  • Focus term - half-caste
  • Focus term - note caption
  • Focus term - philippine terno
  • Focus term - spanish
  • Focus term - traje de mestiza
  • Focus term - women