DepartmentLatin America
Lampião
NameMale soldier figure
Artist
Ines Rodrigues
(Brazilian ceramist)
Date1980s
Place madePernambuco, Brazil, South America
MediumCeramic, paint
Dimensions6 × 2 3/16 × 1 15/16 in. (15.3 × 5.5 × 4.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mary Hynes Daly
Object numberA.2012.50.5
DescriptionStanding male figure (Lampião) wearing blue suit with long jacket, has gun resting on left shoulder. Wears white glasses and has only left eye, orange hat with inscribed convex half-circle over a star, orange bandoliers and weapons belt, red scarf around neck, brown shoes. Stands on yellow square/octagonal base stamped (illegibly) on bottom "INES _ _DRIJUE".
