1938-Bahía, Ruth Landes llama a la Capoeira Afro-Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Mounted field photographs from Bahia, Brazil, 1938-1939

Creator: Landes, Ruth, 1908-1991
Title: Mounted field photographs from Bahia, Brazil, 1938-1939
Contained in: Field photographs from Bahia, Brazil, 1938 - 1939
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Phy. Description: 15 photographic prints mounted on sheet of paper : black & white ; 8 1/2 x 11 inches (plus 3 sheets of paper)

Photographs of Candomblé priestesses, sacred trees, fetish houses, and Capoeira from anthropologist Ruth Landes' 1938-1939 field research on Afro-Brazilians and Candomblé in Brazil in the city of Bahia (now known as Salvador). Also three versions of Landes' typed explanations of the prints. See individual catalog records under "Mounted field photographs from Bahia, Brazil" for digital images and captions for each print.

Cite as: Brazil: Bahian blacks and candomblé [1 of 3], Box 62, Ruth Landes Papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
fuente: Mounted field photographs from Bahia, Brazil, 1938-1939