Aloha Baker and Bororo medicine man
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Description
View of Aloha Baker, with painted face, speaking with Bororo medicine man. Two men in background. Handwritten on sleeve: "Brazil, Bororos, #1. With long house wall in background, after dance 'Eyes of men only', head medicine man, A.W. & exhausted musician & handsome Bororo man, symbolic face paint (scarlet) was drawn on A.W. by talented young wife of 'Handsome' -- smeared in my desparate swipe."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na032047
- Subject:
- Baker, Aloha W., 1908-1996
- Bororo Indians--Brazil--Mato Grosso (State)
- Shamans--Brazil--Mato Grosso (State)
- Baker, Aloha W., 1908-1996--Archives
- Photography--Negatives
- Date:
- 1930-1931
- Format:
- 1 negative ; 3 x 4.25 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Location:
- MS33/Aloha Baker collection, Box 7, Folder 9, America: South, Negative Book, Brazil (Bororo), 1930-31
- Negative Number:
- SAM-046
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.