This is a battered statue on the “teacher’s desk” in the Patagonia Museum. (Our imagined teacher collects old bronzes of presidents and Indians.)
It is, according to Google Lens, an antique Bronze sculpture of a corsair by Eutrope Bouret (French 1833-1906).
Corsairs were privateers, authorised to conduct raids on shipping of a foreign state at war with France. Because they were acting on behalf of the French Crown, if captured by the enemy, they could claim treatment as prisoners of war.
If he wasn’t missing half his leg, his sword and with a smashed nose, he could be worth something on Ebay. Our teacher, however, just thinks he’s handsome.