A Pepohoan mother, with her child in a sling, Baksa, Taiwan

A Pepohoan mother, with her child in a sling, Baksa, Taiwan

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: PF01-52. Photograph by John Thomson. The woman is wearing a hat and coarsely-woven dress, sitting with a baby, also wearing a hat, on her lap in a sling. 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: 19796i).

Location

Taiwan

Date

1871

Photographer

Thomson, John

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph