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".