Group of women from Terreiro do Bogum, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
name: label: Collection Photographer
content: Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963
topic: label: Topic
content: Rites and ceremonies
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content: Melville Herskovits photographs
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content: Melville Herskovits photographs / Brazil
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photographic print (B/W, 3 x 4 in.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1941
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1986-029, Item EEPA.1986-029-0814
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: From left to right: unknown, likely Nicinha de Loko (also known as Maria Evangelista dos Anjos Melo), Ekede Santa de Nana, and Mãe Maria Emiliana Piedade dos Reis, unknown, unknown, unknown. Featured in the book " Terreiro do Bogum: Memories of a Jeje-Mahi Community in Bahia," by Everaldo Conceicao Duarte, published April 2023.