This document is the first register of the sculptural work of Argentine artist Hector Julio Páride Bernarbó (1911–97), known as Carybé. He, along with Mário Cravo Jr., was one of the few artists to delve into the representation of the religious cosmogony of Candomblé in three-dimensional language. Carybé was known mostly for his graphic and pictorial work that registered many aspects of traditional popular culture in the state of Bahia. Carybé was an initiate in Candomblé rituals and his drawings contain striking iconographic details that indicate deep firsthand knowledge of that Afro-Brazilian religion. The twenty-seven wood panels produced for the São Paulo branch of the Banco da Bahia were later donated to the Museu Afro Brasileiro da Bahia. The works are carved in cedar wood with inlays in gold, silver, cowry, copper, brass, glass, and iron.
[For further reading, see in the ICAA digital archive by Raul Lody “Coleção Arthur Ramos” (doc. no. 1110525); “Coleção culto afro-brasileiro: um documento do candomblé na cidade do Salvador” (doc. no. 1110527); “Coleção culto afro-brasileiro: um testemunho do Xangô pernambucano” (doc. no. 1110526); “Dezoito esculturas antropomorfas de orixás” (doc. no. 1110529); “Símbolo do mando” (doc. no. 1110531); and “Yorubá: um estudo etno-tecnológico de 50 peças da coleção arte africana do Museu Nacional de Belas-Artes” (doc. no. 1110532). In addition, see by Abelardo Duarte “Catálogo ilustrado da Coleção Perseverança” (doc. no. 1110522); by Carlos Eugênio Marcondes de Moura “Religiosidade africana no Brasil; Arte afro-brasilidade” (doc. no. 1110519); by Maria Lúcia Montes “Cosmologias e altares” (doc. no. 1110528); by Luiz Felipe de Alencastro “Geopolítica da mestiçagem” (doc. no. 1111371); from the Museu Histórico Nacional “Para nunca esquecer. Negras memórias. Memórias de negros” (doc. no. 1110530); by Jocélio Teles dos Santos “Catálogo do Museu Afro Brasileiro = Catalogue of the Afro-Brazilian Museum” (doc. no. 1110521); by Vagner Gonçalves da Silva “Arte religiosa afro-brasileira. As múltiplas estéticas da devoção brasileira” (doc. no. 1110520); by Oneyda Alvarenga “Catálogo ilustrado do Museu Folclórico” (doc. no. 1110523); and by Rita Amaral “A coleção etnográfica de cultura religiosa afro-brasileira do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia da Universidade de São Paulo” (doc. no. 1110533)].