Igorote dance Bontoc P. J.

Description

original photograph postcard. Postcard shows a group of Igorot men performing a war dance. Kemlein & Johnson was the Manila office of a German company, hence the “made in Germany” sign. A German-American bookstore and publisher founded by George L. Johnson and H. Kemlein and located at Escolta, Manila during the first half of the 19th century. Johnson may have been a prisoner of war during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II. In addition to selling books in German and English, the bookstore also issued postcards and maps of Manila and the Philippines, as well as a Philippines guidebook, all of which are EXTREMELY RARE.