The beginning of the Bonfim Feast procession, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
name: label: Collection Photographer
content: Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963
topic: label: Topic
content: Festivals
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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: 1942 January 14
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1986-029, Item EEPA.1986-029-0725
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content: Archival materials
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content: Photographic prints
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content: Baianas, the women in white, guide the procession carrying flower pots on their heads. Woman on stilts has papers reading "Tomem vergonha" or "Shame on you," pinned to her skirts. Appears in the publication, Field Station Bahia: Brazil in the Work of Lorenzo Dow Turner, E. Franklin Frazier and Frances and Melville Herskovits, 1935-1967, by Livio Sansone.