Jun 12 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2708 -

Sale 2708 - Lot 158

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(PHILIPPINE-AMERICAN WAR.) Photograph of an American soldier wounded at Bud Dajo in the Moro Rebellion. Silver print, 6½ x 4¼ inches, on detached plain black album leaf, captioned in image "Private Packard, Troop I, 4th Cavalry, Wounded Bud Dajo, March 7th 1906"; faint adhesive remnants in image. Philippines, 1906
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The Battle of Bud Dajo in March 1906 was the bloodiest of the Moro Rebellion which resisted American occupation of the Philippines. The much better-armed Americans suffered about 20 deaths and 70 injuries in the assault on a volcanic crater, but virtually all of the Moro force was killed, along with numerous women and children. The massacre was widely criticized in the American press--even Mark Twain chimed in--and is still resented in the Philippines.

In this image, an American private is posed shirtless, showing several deep blade wounds on his back and upper arm. He is shown with a barong sword, the type used by the Moro fighters in this battle. Certainly a fearsome weapon; the Americans had machine guns.

With--a similarly formatted photograph of another young man in a white (military?) shirt.

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