FELICE BEATO. Wa Tribesmen, c. 1880s. 11x8.5" printing-out paper. Printed c. 1890. Numbered in negative on print recto: 241. Inscribed in pencil on print verso: attrib. F. BEATO / HILLMEN (?).

The Wa people are a Southeast Asian ethnic group that lives mainly in Northern Myanmar, in the northern part of Shan State and the eastern part of Kachin State, near and along Myanmar's border with China, as well as in China's Yunnan Province.

Felice Beato was the first photographer to devote himself entirely to photographing in Asia and the Near East. He photographed in Japan, India, Athens, Constantinople, the Crimea, and Palestine. He settled in Yokohama and from 1863 to 1877 made hundreds of ethnographic portraits and genre scenes in Japan. He eventually opened a furniture and curio business in Burma.

Beato's photographic career was also long affiliated with images of war. He photographed the Opium War in China in 1860 and the Sudanese colonial wars in 1885.

While in partnership with his brother-in-law James Robertson in the 1850s, Beato documented the Indian Mutiny and its aftermath. Their photographs are believed to be the first to show human corpses on a battlefield. Beato and Robertson were also among the earliest photographers to work in the Holy Land.

Credit: https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/1931/felice-beato-english-born-italy-1832-1909/

Very good. Moderate wear and light creases.