![Thumbnail for [Afro-Brazilian man fishing in launch], 1938 November](https://d2l9jrtx1kk04i.cloudfront.net/fb061bda7491e7db53b05bdb832cc6881260bdc9.png)
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Digital surrogate is available.African BraziliansPhotograph in slide sleeve page marked "November 21, 1938"Photograph from anthropologist Ruth Landes' 1938-1939 field research on Afro-Brazilians and Candomblé in Brazil in the city of Bahia (now known as Salvador). Handwritten by Landes on verso: "Old negro in 'launch' in Dique. He is fishing. Bahia. Nov. 1938."landes_photo_brazil_91-4_0212, Brazil: Bahian blacks and candomblé [3 of 3], Box 62, Ruth Landes Papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian InstitutionNational Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Museum Support Center, Suitland, Maryland
1 Photographic Print : Black &Amp; White ; 3 X 4 Centimeters
![[Afro-Brazilian man with staff dressed as a Caboclo spirit], 1938 September 18](https://d2l9jrtx1kk04i.cloudfront.net/f99febc35d3dc5d593efc8f708984ca9b49c3169.png "[Afro-Brazilian man with staff dressed as a Caboclo spirit], 1938 September 18")
![[Sabina holding historic sword], 1938 August](https://d2l9jrtx1kk04i.cloudfront.net/c8f55754b72226daeffa5e3fb9adf756f82e4e11.png "[Sabina holding historic sword], 1938 August")
![[Mulatto filha of Sabina, with Sertanejo behind her], 1938 August](https://d2l9jrtx1kk04i.cloudfront.net/7065092651a0ccf3f563e9af543225ef26ad8861.png "[Mulatto filha of Sabina, with Sertanejo behind her], 1938 August")
![[Manoel and his assistant standing in front of fetish houses and sacred trees around Gantois temple], 1938 September](https://d2l9jrtx1kk04i.cloudfront.net/123d7cb60a808378622c5c4f64d9a4cf293fa583.png "[Manoel and his assistant standing in front of fetish houses and sacred trees around Gantois temple], 1938 September")
![[Sacred trees of Exu and Oxossi, near Gantois temple], 1938 September](https://d2l9jrtx1kk04i.cloudfront.net/2e0e784e729d63f1ea6627c0e7efafc4de77d56f.png "[Sacred trees of Exu and Oxossi, near Gantois temple], 1938 September")
![[Fetish house and gameleira trees by Gantois temple], 1938 September](https://d2l9jrtx1kk04i.cloudfront.net/76fbb3b6d5658c23d26c73e4fa04e015cb14f11a.png "[Fetish house and gameleira trees by Gantois temple], 1938 September")
![[Quintas boy in foreground and men in background putting gravel on road], 1938 Oct. 20](https://d2l9jrtx1kk04i.cloudfront.net/2b108e2221a4c092a4c5aba5faf9a7df74dd8c60.png "[Quintas boy in foreground and men in background putting gravel on road], 1938 Oct. 20")
![[Sacred trees of Exu and Oxossi, showing height of trees, near Gantois temple], 1938 September](https://d2l9jrtx1kk04i.cloudfront.net/9d421dff80b811c04f15037ce8a7b61717eabd2e.png "[Sacred trees of Exu and Oxossi, showing height of trees, near Gantois temple], 1938 September")
