This early 20th century flag is in the style of the classic flagu nfurled by Emilio Aguinaldo in Kawit on June 12, 1898. It features the ‘mythic’ sun or a sun with a human face. The sun has eight rays for the first provinces that rose up in arms against the Spanish in 1896. The three stars have five-points, in a pattern familiar to many revolutionary emblems. The Philippine Flag was outlawed by the Americans in 1907. That law was repealed in 1919. — Lisa Guerrero Nakpil
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Provenance: Private Collection, Makati City