Barnabás Bosshart
2005
Making decorations with dried Buriti palm leaves, before the log race.
[Canela-Apanyekra, MaranhÒo, Brazil]

Gelatin silver print
26.3 x 38.8 cm
 
Provided by the artist - Barnabás Bosshart
(from left to right)
 
Zé Barro "Pakß" (skin of an arm)
Pedrinho "Harhi" (a good artist)
Mato Grosso "KrÒhte" (big head)
Milton "Patwß" (a big sounding horn made of a hollow fruit plant)
 
The first name is the Portuguese name of the person, then the Indian (macro-jê language) in "quotation marks" and the (name in brackets) gives the meaning of the Indian name.
 
LL/19868
 
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