Mariquita, Legionaria: Muñecos recortables no. 69 (Mariquita, Legionnaire: Cut-Out Dolls no. 69)
A colour cut-out sheet for children: a smiling girl in Spanish Foreign Legion khaki, rifle at her side, holds by the hair the severed, dripping head of a dark-skinned child with rolling eyes and lolling tongue; a spare tunic, cap, a rolled banner and two more caricatured dark-skinned children (one weeping in a fez) complete the set. The tell is the grotesque caricature of the enemy and the packaging of his decapitation as a play accessory.
- Date
- 1922
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Editorial Suc. Hernando, Madrid (children's publisher; uncredited illustrator)
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- Spain
- Medium
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Restoration Monarchy
- Leader
- Alfonso Xiii
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Race and ethnicity, Empire and colonialism
- Event
- Rif War
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (scan from a collector's sale listing), retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- US public domain (published 1922-25, before 1931); scan tagged CC BY-SA 4.0 on Commons
Editorial Suc. Hernando, Madrid, 'Mariquita, Legionaria', Muñecos recortables no. 69, c. 1922; scan via Wikimedia Commons
Text on the object
MUÑECOS RECORTABLES. [small, beneath:] MARIQUITA MARIQUITA, LEGIONARIA Nº 69 [vertical, left margin:] PÉGUESE EN CARTULINA PIDA LOS CUENTOS LILIPUT. 5 cts [vertical, left margin:] Los cuentos Liliput están ilustrados por los mejores dibujantes humoristas [vertical, right margin:] 40 cuentos Liliput en elegante estuche por 2'50 Ptas [on the banner, vertical:] ENRÓLLESE EN UN PALILLO DE DIENTES [on the cap:] CÓRTESE [insignia on the tunic collar: T E, partly legible] Editorial Suc. Hernando
CUT-OUT DOLLS. [small, beneath:] MARIQUITA MARIQUITA, LEGIONNAIRE No. 69 [vertical, left margin:] GLUE ON CARDBOARD ASK FOR THE LILIPUT STORIES. 5 cts [vertical, left margin:] The Liliput stories are illustrated by the best humorous artists [vertical, right margin:] 40 Liliput stories in an elegant box for 2.50 Ptas [on the banner, vertical:] ROLL IT ON A TOOTHPICK [on the cap:] CUT [insignia on the tunic collar: T E, partly legible] Editorial Suc. Hernando
