"A Jagunço Arrested"

The only photograph of the set that highlights the figure of a counselor fighter. Called in the language of the time “jagunço”, it was described by Euclides da Cunha: “Its appearance recalls (…) that of an ancient warrior exhausted from the fray. Clothes are armor. Wrapped in tanned leather jerkin, goat or cowhide (…) This armor, however, in a reddish-brown, as if it were flexible bronze, does not have any sparkles, does not shine, injured by the sun. It's dull and powdery. It involves the combatant of a battle without victory...” The reputation of never surrendering, fighting to the end of his possibilities, gives special importance to the act of photographing a haughty adviser although surrendered by army troops. The soldiers, in turn, appear around the area wearing shabby robes as a combat uniform.