The works of Master João das Alagoas have unique characteristics. The character Bumba-Meu-Boi, almost his registered trademark, usually in large sizes, wears a kind of cloak with an impressive richness of content and detailed embossing of symbols from everyday life and from the folklore and culture of Alagoana from the northeast. Inscriptions that transform the surface of the piece, this ox is thus an expressive visual story about the cities of the interior of the northeast and its folklore: It´s a storyteller bull.

* Master João das Alagoas has been recognized as a living Alagoas heritage since 2011.