Dance festival of the Camacan in Bahia, Brazil, with many naked men and women in aprons dancing around a pot on a fire. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. Illustration adapted from Maximilian von Wied-Neuwied's "Travels in Brazil, 1815-1817."

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