ANTIQUE PHILIPPINE AMERICAN COLONIAL PERIOD REPRODUCTION PRINT

Description

Rare Antique Philippine Reproduction Print.  A dual
portrait of a young Filipino male, who has been severely and permanently punished and in effect, branded, by his fellow Filipinos for being an American informer and traitor.  Issued during the American Colonial Period (1900-1945), the earlier rather than latter part of the period.  The print appeared in published form, which publication has since ceased to exist.
There is NO text or photographic image on verso, and is therefore eminently frame-able.
THIS PARTICULAR PIECE IS RARE.  It is one of the most disturbing dual-portrait photographs we have ever seen of the American Occupation,
taken by an unnamed professional photographer (one of the American photographers sent to the Philippines)
.  The caption names him as Felizardo, a "bandit chief" (not verified and most likely a frame-up), whose lips were severed and right foot crippled ("hamstrung")
on suspicion of "giving information to Americans".  The punishment may be described as apt, as it were, in its cruelty, as it ensured that his lips were permanently sealed, thereby preventing him from giving any more information to the Americans, while his crippled foot prevented him from going to see his alleged American superiors readily.  His was a living death of a punishment.  They may as well have executed him, it would have been less cruel and more humane.  The rage with which his punishment was meted out instead shows a depth of barbarism and inhumanity that the photographs capture indelibly, and is alas, universal and all-too-human.
Print size is 8.5 X 5.5 inches.
Fine.  Please refer to and enlarge scan for condition details.  Enclosed in protective plastic sheet.  Please do NOT ask me to remove the print from its sheet.  This is paper, fragile, very old yet remarkably intact, and I would like to keep it that way.  No contemporary repair.
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