Ceremony at 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.1986-029-0697
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content: Archival materials
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content: Photographic prints
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content: Group of Candomble women and priestesses gathered outside. The two women standing in front to the left are likely Mãe Valentina Maria dos Anjos Costa (Mãe Runhó) [left] and Mãe Maria Emiliana Piedade dos Reis [right], of Terreiro do Bogum, Salvador Bahia, ca. 1942. Mãe Valentina and Mãe Maria Emiliana were leaders of the Terreiro do Bogum (Zoogodô Bogum Malê Rundó). They were interviewed by both Herskovits and Lorenzo Dow Turner, who identified them as daughters of parents who had come from Dahomey (today Benin) and who spoke Fongbe fluently. Turner might have worked with them while making notes in his copy of the 1894 dictionary Manuel Dahoméen by Maurice Delafosse. See Anacostia Community Museum collection, Gift of Lois Turner Williams (acma_PH2003.7064.115) and BeRose International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology.