1951-52
"Everytime it rains (average 200 days a year) you have to walk through this" [mud, tracks]

1951-52
The coastline leading up to Nago, with Nago City in the background, and trees lining the coastal road.

1951-52
"Here is one of my prizes. This has the typical road, houses, terrain, fields, rice paddies and the farmer carrying the honey buckets out to his field. I can smell the slop in those buckets from here! The House with the tile roof is the "Honcho" or…

1951-52
"The dark blue blouses with white strips on cuff and around neck flap are the school girl costume. This is a Japanese influence. As you see the girls on the left are doing all possible to hide their faces from the camera, the others too dumbfounded…

1951-52
Squatting man in conical star hat

1951-52
Portrait of elderly man in dark kimono, straw hat and cane

1951-52
Portrait of father (in lion cloth) and child

1951-52
Side view, full length standing portrait of elderly lady in stripped dress

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1951-52
"This old Mamason was none too happy to be cornered for a picture, but after I took it I bowed and thanked her in Japanese and she gave me a big toothless smile. If you look closely you can see the tattoos on her hands and wrists that are placed on…

1951-52
Woman carrying basket of fish on head