Berta Gleizer Ribeiro photographs of watercolor paintings by Feliciano Lana
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 91-37
name: label: Collector
content: Ribeiro, Berta G. (Berta Gleizer)
label: Artist
content: Lana, Feliciano Pimentel, 1937-
title: label: Topic
content: Mythology
creator: label: Collector
content: Ribeiro, Berta G. (Berta Gleizer)
culture: label: Culture
content: Desâna
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Berta Gleizer Ribeiro (1924-1997) was born in Romania and moved to Rio de Janeiro with her family in 1933. She acquired a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Sao Paulo and took a position teaching at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) National Museum and School of Fine Arts.  With her husband, Darcy Ribeiro, she coauthored several books on Brazilian tribes, including Suma Etnologica Brasileria, Arte plumária dos índios kaapor, and Dicionário do artesanato indígena.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 168 Color slides
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1985
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Dr. Berta G. Ribeiro through Betty J. Meggers, circa 1989.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.91-37
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Color slides
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Watercolors
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Watercolors
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: List of captions by Berta Ribeiro available in repository.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs of watercolor paintings by Feliciano Lana, a member of the Desana tribe in Brazil, made at the request of Dr. Berta Ribeiro in 1985 while she was studying the tribe. The paintings illustrate three stories, narrated or translated by Ribeiro: "The Story of Gain Panan and of the Peach Palm that He Brought from the Invisible Fish World," "Desana Genesis: The Beginning before the Beginning," and "The Creation of the World."
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: "Antes o mundo nao existia: a mitologia heroica dos indios Desana / Umusin Panlon Kumu, Tolaman Kenhiri," with an introduction by Berta G. Ribeiro was also donated with this collection and has been relocated to the National Anthropological Archives Reference Files.