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Opening in capoeira

Creators:: Landes, Ruth, 1908-1991
Dates:: 1938 October 23
Level:: item
Size:: 2 Photographic prints (black & white, 4.5 x 3.5 centimeters)
Collection ID:: NAA.1991-04
Repository:: National Anthropological Archives

Two duplicate prints. Photographs 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 of landes_photo_brazil_91-4_0021: "Opening in Capoeira, to berimbau."

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Ruth Landes papers / Graphic Materials / Photographs / Field photographs from Bahia, Brazil / Brazil: Bahian blacks and candomblé (2 of 3) / Opening in capoeira

[Headbutting in capoeira]

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Creators:: Landes, Ruth, 1908-1991
Dates:: circa 1938
Level:: item
Size:: 2 Photographic prints (black & white, 3 x 4 centimeters)
Collection ID:: NAA.1991-04
Repository:: National Anthropological Archives

Two duplicate prints. Photographs 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 on verso of landes_photo_brazil_91-4_0043 by Landes: "Butting."

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Ruth Landes papers / Graphic Materials / Photographs / Field photographs from Bahia, Brazil / Brazil: Bahian blacks and candomblé (2 of 3) / [Headbutting in capoeira]

[Drawing of Edison Carneiro]

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Creators:: Landes, Ruth, 1908-1991
Dates:: undated
Level:: item
Size:: 1 Photomechanical print
Collection ID:: NAA.1991-04
Repository:: National Anthropological Archives

Drawing of Edison Carneiro by José Guimarães.

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Ruth Landes papers / Graphic Materials / Drawings / Edison Carneiro (print of drawing) / [Drawing of Edison Carneiro]

Capoeira sparring

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Creators:: Landes, Ruth, 1908-1991
Dates:: circa 1938
Level:: item
Size:: 16 Photographic prints (black & white, approximately 3.5 x 5 centimeters and 5 x 3.5 centimeters)
Collection ID:: NAA.1991-04
Repository:: National Anthropological Archives

Photographs from anthropologist Ruth Landes' 1938-1939 field research on Afro-Brazilians and Candomblé in Brazil in the city of Bahia (now known as Salvador). Some of the photographs are duplicates. See other photographs in the Ruth Landes Papers for more photographs of capoeira.

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Ruth Landes papers / Graphic Materials / Photographs / Field photographs from Bahia, Brazil / Brazil: Bahian blacks and candomblé (3 of 3) / Capoeira sparring

Indians at work

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Creators:: Landes, Ruth, 1908-1991
Dates:: undated
Level:: item
Size:: 1 Drawing
Collection ID:: NAA.1991-04
Repository:: National Anthropological Archives

Drawing in pencil and crayon on lined paper by G.W. Allen.

Contained In:

Ruth Landes papers / Graphic Materials / Drawings / "Indians at Work" / Indians at work

[Ruth Landes, turned away from camera, standing on road in the shadow of a tree]

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Creators:: Landes, Ruth, 1908-1991
Dates:: circa 1939
Level:: item
Size:: 1 Photographic print (black & white, 4 x 3 centimeters)
Collection ID:: NAA.1991-04
Repository:: National Anthropological Archives

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).

Contained In:

Ruth Landes papers / Graphic Materials / Photographs / Field photographs from Bahia, Brazil / Brazil: Bahian blacks and candomblé (3 of 3) / [Ruth Landes, turned away from camera, standing on road in the shadow of a tree]

Postcards of Switzerland

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Creators:: Landes, Ruth, 1908-1991
Dates:: undated
Level:: item
Size:: 21 Postcards
Collection ID:: NAA.1991-04
Repository:: National Anthropological Archives

Postcards of Switzerland collected by anthropologist Ruth Landes. Images on the postcards include mosaics; artwork; the coat of arms of Swiss cities; a map of Switzerland; various sites in Geneva including the Reformation Wall, Quai Gustave Ador, Avenue de France, St. Pierre Cathedral, La Rade, Gare Cornavin, Church of Notre Dame; and a view of Lim...

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Ruth Landes papers / Graphic Materials / Postcards / Switzerland / Postcards of Switzerland

[Sketches of Ruth Landes and bloomers fashion]

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Creators:: Landes, Ruth, 1908-1991
Dates:: undated
Level:: item
Size:: 1 Item
Collection ID:: NAA.1991-04
Repository:: National Anthropological Archives

Scrap of paper with sketches in ink by anthropologist Ruth Landes of herself at Fisk University in 1937 and a woman dressed in a sailor blouse and bloomers. On a piece of paper accompanying the drawing, Landes writes: "No bloomer girls at Mrs. Wallace & Fisk! I drew a sketch of her -- myself [illegible handwriting] teens -- and called her Alexea."