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Photo, Print, Drawing Jesha: for Oshun

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About this Item

Title

  • Jesha: for Oshun

Names

  • Unidentified (Singer)
  • Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean) (1895-1963) (Recordist)
  • Herskovits, Frances S. (Frances Shapiro) (1897-) (Recordist)

Created / Published

  • 1941-1942

Headings

  • -  Brazil -- Bahia
  • -  card catalogs

Genre

  • card catalogs

Notes

  • -  This is a digitized catalog card, not an audio recording.
  • -  Instrument: Drum
  • -  Afro-Bahian songs
  • -  Instrument: Calabash
  • -  Instrument: Gong
  • -  Statement of responsibility: Singer, with drum, rattle, beaded mesh-covered calabash and gong.
  • -  Songs No. 566-568

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFS Number: AFS 06869 B

Source Collection

  • Traditional Music and Spoken Word Card Catalog

Repository

  • american folklife center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • image

IIIF Presentation Manifest

Rights & Access

The contents of the Traditional Music and Spoken Word Card Catalog are in the public domain and are free to use and reuse.

Credit line: American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Unidentified, Melville J Herskovits, and Frances S Herskovits. Jesha: for Oshun. Bahia Brazil, 1933. to 1942. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc9999005.19846/.

APA citation style:

Unidentified, Herskovits, M. J. & Herskovits, F. S. (1933) Jesha: for Oshun. Bahia Brazil, 1933. to 1942. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc9999005.19846/.

MLA citation style:

Unidentified, Melville J Herskovits, and Frances S Herskovits. Jesha: for Oshun. to 1942. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/afc9999005.19846/>.