In the following work, a photograph included in a book on the Chilean Armed Forces (1928) is analyzed, in which a woman from the Chango ethnic group is allegedly portrayed. However, it corresponds to an indigenous woman from the Philippines, an image that was published in a text from 1906 and later in 1913. For all of the above, we are facing a case of iconographic migration, that is, when a representation of a certain indigenous people presents different cultural ascriptions depending on the iconographic context in which it is incorporated. The article will present the route of this research, which begins with the comparison between this photograph and previous iconography associated with the chango (engravings and drawings), going through a museum appropriation process, until reaching the “original image”, made in the framework of an ethnographic study, at a time when the Philippines became a colony of the USA.