Bizarre Brazil

Old pictures of Santos Harbour, Sao Paulo.

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Photos circa 1930-1936 - Pictures from Encyclopedia e Diccionario Internacional

My favourites images from the first tome of Debret´s book, are:

Botocudos family and their flamboyant “clothes”. I love it, maybe I have Botocudo’s blood… Who knows…

These warriors from Guaicuru Cavalary are great.

And this gracious master of Archery and Hunting

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Photos circa 1930-1936 - Pictures from Encyclopedia e Diccionario Internacional

Civilized Brazilian Indians

Civilized Charruas Indians

Civilized Guarani woman going to mass. Read the rest of this entry »

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Brazilian plants, seeds, roots and flowers

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Everybody knows cats always land on their feet. Everybody knows what happens when you drop a buttered bread: it alwats land butter side down. And everybody remembers the cat/bread butter paradox. Mauricio Adachi made this experimental movie to prove the theory.

Brazilian trees and bushes

Banana tree

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I am a bit reddish nowadays, but I cannot resist to this lonely girl at that red bus stop… at north side of Sao Paulo.

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