Firewood was the primary fuel of the colonial Philippines, gathered from forests and carried to the towns for cooking and trade. The worker who hauled wood, here shown with his cart or load of leña, was part of the everyday labor that supplied the colonial household.
José Honorato Lozano documented this figure as part of his Tipos del País watercolors, a body of work produced in the mid-nineteenth century recording the costumes, occupations, and daily life of Philippine society. The Indio con Carleton de Lena depicts the firewood carrier with his load, recording a common form of labor in colonial society. Lozano worked primarily in Manila and produced illustrations that served as visual records of Philippine society for both local and foreign audiences. His work is considered among the most detailed and culturally specific visual documentation of the Philippines in the Spanish colonial period.
This print preserves a record of the everyday labor that supplied fuel to colonial Philippine towns.
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