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[Sacred trees of Exu and Oxossi, showing height of trees, near Gantois temple]

Creators:: Landes, Ruth, 1908-1991
Dates:: 1938 September
Level:: item
Size:: 1 Photographic print (black & white, 4 x 3 centimeters)
Collection ID:: NAA.1991-04
Repository:: National Anthropological Archives

Sacred trees near Gantois, Candomblé house of high priestess Mãe Menininha. 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: "2) Oxossi 1) Exu (l.) showing heights of trees. Gantois. Sept. 1938."

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Ruth Landes papers / Graphic Materials / Photographs / Field photographs from Bahia, Brazil / Brazil: Bahian blacks and candomblé (2 of 3) / [Sacred trees of Exu and Oxossi, showing height of trees, near Gantois temple]

[Entrance to psychiatric hospital in Brotas, Bahia]

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Creators:: Landes, Ruth, 1908-1991
Dates:: 1938 September 16
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). Handwritten by Landes on verso: "Entrnce & portaría 2 Insane Asylum, Brotas, Bahia. Sept. 16, 1938."

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Ruth Landes papers / Graphic Materials / Photographs / Field photographs from Bahia, Brazil / Brazil: Bahian blacks and candomblé (3 of 3) / [Entrance to psychiatric hospital in Brotas, Bahia]

[Sacred trees of Exu and Oxossi, near Gantois temple]

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Creators:: Landes, Ruth, 1908-1991
Dates:: 1938 September
Level:: item
Size:: 1 Photographic print (black & white, 4 x 3 centimeters)
Collection ID:: NAA.1991-04
Repository:: National Anthropological Archives

Sacred trees near Gantois, Candomblé house of Mãe Menininha. 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: "1) Exu 2) Oxossi. Gantois. Sept. 1938."

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Ruth Landes papers / Graphic Materials / Photographs / Field photographs from Bahia, Brazil / Brazil: Bahian blacks and candomblé (2 of 3) / [Sacred trees of Exu and Oxossi, near Gantois temple]

[Fetish house and gameleira trees by Gantois temple]

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Creators:: Landes, Ruth, 1908-1991
Dates:: 1938 September
Level:: item
Size:: 1 Photographic print (black & white, 3 x 4 centimeters)
Collection ID:: NAA.1991-04
Repository:: National Anthropological Archives

Fetish house and sacred trees by Gantois, Candomblé house of Mãe Menininha. 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: "1) Exu 2) Oxossi 3) Ogum 4) Omolu on l. side of Gantois [illegible handwritings]...

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Ruth Landes papers / Graphic Materials / Photographs / Field photographs from Bahia, Brazil / Brazil: Bahian blacks and candomblé (3 of 3) / [Fetish house and gameleira trees by Gantois temple]

[Menininha with her filhas and filho outside of Gantois temple]

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Creators:: Landes, Ruth, 1908-1991
Dates:: 1938 September
Level:: item
Size:: 1 Photographic print (black & white, 3 x 4 centimeters)
Collection ID:: NAA.1991-04
Repository:: National Anthropological Archives

Menininha, Candomblé high priestess of Gantois temple. 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: "Menininha & filhas & filho at side of Gantois. Sept. 1938."