SEGUINDO A ROTA DOS BARQUINHOS DE IEMANJÁ.

This photo essay portrays the circuit of preparation and offering of the Barquinhos de Iemanjá: small blue boats, approximately 40 centimeters long, made of cardboard, bearing props, flowers and food, which are the gifts destined for the orisha Iemanjá by the Centro Africano Ogum e Iansã in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The first records of this circuit were made during the preparation of those gifts in the terreiro, located in the city of Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, and continued during the excursion route of the community to Santa Terezinha beach, in Imbé, North Coast of Rio Grande do Sul, where gifts in honor of Iemanjá have been offered annually. The photos show the ritualistic stages, endowed with complexities, powers and magnitudes, with different elements, hands that make and compound boats, scenes and manifestations of Afro-Brazilian religiosity in southern Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]