Woman selling Acarajé, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
name: label: Collection Photographer
content: Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963
topic: label: Topic
content: Street vendors
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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. 1941-1942
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1986-029, Item EEPA.1986-029-0786
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content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
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content: 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. On page 87: "Acarajé being sold in the traditional African fashion just with pepper, and other produce, mostly fruit. Acarajé is a fried bean fritter. From the 1950s, it would become 'Afro food' and made more sophisticated with several extra ingredients."