A portrait of a Pepohoan woman, wearing a headscarf, Baksa, Taiwan

A portrait of a Pepohoan woman, wearing a headscarf, Baksa, Taiwan

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: PF01-47. Photograph by John Thomson. This portrait was reproduced in John Thomson's 'Illustrations of China and its People' (1873-1874), vol II, No.3. Baksa was "a village about thirty miles inland from the capital, Taiwanfu [Tainan 臺南市]." See a scan of Thomson's negative (Wellcome Collection ref: 19826i).

Location

Taiwan

Date

1871

Photographer

Thomson, John

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph