Igorrote Images

The Igorote village was located on the Pay Streak. Many Igorote images were published in various formats.

Photo postcard by the unidentified "S" photographer associated with the A. J. Park Electric Studio. The Igorrotes were natural performers and musicians, and many were given star treatment. They constructed their village compound themselves.  (more below).

AYPE photo postcard from the A.J. Park studio. The naming of individuals is significant and telling.  (more below)

Photo postcard by Asahel Curtis / Romans Studio. Dog Feasts were a special event for the Igorrotes, and performing them regularly presented an uncomfortable situation that would not be done today.

Uncommon, yet typical candid views from AYPE visitors show the freedom, closeness of interraction, and curiousity that belie common epithets often used to characterize the Igorrotes' experience in 1909 - and, by extension and inference to denigrate the Fair itself. While the advertising was at times sensational, even salacious, warm humanity was the rule of the actual event. Although they were confined to the compound at times during the Fair - as much as for their own protection as well as to discourage problems that could and did arise in nearby neighborhoods from some member's own cultural unfamiliarity,  Igorrotes were often on both sides of the staging rail with vistors present.

One of a number of personalized, glamorous while at the time very humanistic AYPE photo postcards from the A. J. Park studio and sold in relatively large numbers (litho Portland PC Co. cards were sold in huge amounts, and some of these also name individuals, including children).