Photos by Pierre Verger and Mario Cravo Neto

Pierre Verger / Brazil / Candomblé

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Candomblé Cosme
Salvador, Bahia. 1946-1953

The head of the initiate is shaven and his hair collected inside a white cloth...Then the first of the animal sacrifices are made: cocks, pigeons, tortoises, partridges, snails.

P. Verger

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