ANTIQUE PHILIPPINE AMERICAN COLONIAL PERIOD REPRODUCTION PRINT

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Rare Antique Philippine Reproduction Print.  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.  Print size is 3.0 X 6.0 inches.  There is NO text or alternate photographic image on verso.

The subject of each print is Philippine life, as it existed during the early 20th century, when the Philippines (known simply as "P.I.", initials for Philippine Islands) was colonized and owned by the United States, which bought it from the previous colonizer, Spain.  Many of the prints in this collection capture the life, customs, and traditions of Philippine ethnic tribes and minorities, and therefore have significant ethnographic and collectible value for collectors of Philippine ethnic art and artifact.  Despite their old age, they have lost almost none of their original color and vibrancy.  

THIS PARTICULAR PIECE IS VERY RARE.  The artist, an American named "Danker", depicts his native subject (an attractive and beautiful native woman) as an ominous threat to her white male soldier-companion (or possibly, lover), the latter being the embodiment of white purity, surely an enduring concern to this day among certain white nationalists, so-called.  The Caption, "Future Complications In The Philippines - What May Be Expected Any Day", is very thinly veiled in its racist depiction of Filipinos as inferior yet a mortal threat nonetheless to white-ness; the artist clearly intends his readers to get the "message": That such romantic and sexual relations, while unavoidable, represent an emasculating "complication" to the colonizing power.  

I have not seen another surviving print like this, and two others listed here, with the same overt (rather than, as was later the case, much more subtle and covert) racism that characterized "Manifest Destiny".  Western colonialism is a shameful chapter in HUMAN history.  Pretending it never happened or that it was mostly benevolent assimilation is a lie that must be unmasked and openly acknowledged as such, or else we will all never learn from the terrible mistakes of the past.  Period pieces like this print offer proof of colonialism's historical actuality and evil nature, and need to be preserved for posterity as such.  

It is only a bit surprising that in almost ALL serious monographs, exhibition catalogs, and full-fledged books, there is virtually NO vintage photographic documentation/reference such as this and many other photographic materials.  The reason is simple and understandable: The prints are rare and in fragile condition, making their transfer to a modern digital transfer-format a difficult process at best, making these prints collectible in themselves. 

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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