-1938 October 30 (31 prints): Photos of Villa Flaviana, Flaviana's family and ogan, houses near Villa Flaviana, street vendors, Edison Carniero and doctor at psychiatric hospital in Brotas
-1938 November 21 (37 prints): Photos of Dique, views from a launch, and Edison Carniero
-1938 December (2 prints): Photographs of portrait of Aninha and house of Manoel, chief drummer at Gantois
-1939 January 1 (68 prints): Lavagem do Bonfim festival (Washing of the Church of Our Lord of Good Ending) and festival of Bom Jesus dos Navegantes. Views of churches, procession, dolls, crowds, filhas of Joãozinho da Goméia, and priestesses. Also photos of Edison Carneiro and duplicate prints of Martiniano and his wife
-Capoeira, wrestling (106 prints). Also one photo of Gantois
-Idalice's presente (8 prints). Offering ceremony of Idalice, Candomblé de Angola priestess, to Iemanjá. The ceremony was financed by Landes and Edison Carneiro. See Landes's field notebook "Brazil XVII"
-Miscellaneous and unidentified (41 prints). Edison Carniero, Landes, Bahiana dolls, views of Sugar Loaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro. Also photos from Idalice's offering ceremony to Iemanjá
(Digital surrogates: landes_photographs_brazil)
Collection Restrictions:
The Ruth Landes papers are open for research. The nitrate negatives in this collection have been separated from the collection and stored offsite. Access to nitrate negatives is restricted due to preservation concerns.
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Collection Citation:
Ruth Landes papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
The revision of this finding aid and digitization of portions of the collection were made possible through the financial support of the Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund.