"Making a phonograph record. Group of Lubuagan men singing," 1908. Location: Lubuagan, Bontoc (sic)

In addition to taking photographic images, Worcester and his colleagues also recorded Filipino voices. But visual accounts of Filipinos using Western technologies-as in this image of a phonograph-often suggested the cultural inferiority of Filipinos.

Source: MIT

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