The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) was a world's fair held in Seattle in 1909, publicizing the development of the Pacific Northwest. The fairgrounds became the campus of the University of Washington.

The children pictured may be assembled for "Children of All Nations Day," which was an event held at the AYPE. The event included children from Japan, China, Assyria, Egypt, Morocco, Alaska, Hawaii, Siam, Labrador, Siberia and other countries. The Inuit child pictured on the left side of the second row is Norman Smith, standing next to his sister Miss Columbia, who was named "Queen of the Pay Streak" and most beautiful woman at the AYPE. The Inuit and Igorot groups were both featured at the Pay Streak (amusement area) of the AYPE. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, exhibitions of Indigenous peoples at world's fairs were common, as colonial powers used them to influence opinions about colonized peoples and show off the claimed benefits of imperialism.

Caption on image: x3016, [Photographer's mark:] F.H. Nowell, Official Photographer, Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition

Caption information source: "Professor Jimmie Igloo and Dr. Boombang Meet the Heathens," by Josh Reid, Pacific Northwest Quarterly Vol. 101, No. 3/4, retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/23059107.
Caption information source: “Colonial Ethnology and the Igorrote Village at the AYP,” by Jon Olivera, Pacific Northwest Quarterly Vol. 101., No. 3/4, retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/23059109.