Maria Bonita

NameFemale soldier figure

Artist Ines Rodrigues (Brazilian ceramist)

Date1980s

Place madePernambuco, Brazil, South America

MediumCeramic, paint

Dimensions6 3/16 × 1 13/16 × 2 5/16 in. (15.7 × 4.6 × 5.9 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mary Hynes Daly

Object numberA.2012.50.2

DescriptionStanding female figure with gun over her left shoulder, wearing blue three-quarter length dres and orange hat with an inscribed convex half-circle over a star on underside of brim which is turned up. She wears orange bandoliers, a belt and knife and a red bandana around her neck. Stands on square/octagonal red base. Bottom underside stamped (illegibly) "INES_UDRI_UE". Short black hair slightly sculpted and painted.