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Carranca
Ana das Carrancas1970's
Museu de Folclore Edison Carneiro
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Carranca is a zoomorphic or anthropomorphic talisman carved from wood, commonly used on the São Francisco riverboats until the 1940s, when it was placed on the bow of ships to protect the vessel.
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Details
- Title: Carranca
- Creator: Ana das Carrancas
- Date Created: 1970's
- Location: Petrolina, PE
- Physical Dimensions: 30.7 in (H)
- Medium: Clay
- Photo Credit: Francisco Moreira da Costa
- About Creator: Ana Leopoldina dos Santos Lima was born in Ouricuri (PE), in 1923, and died in 2008, in Petrolina, in the same state. "I have calluses on my fingers, but I feel happy. It's my diploma" – a diploma Ana das Carrancas earned by overcoming the hardships of life as a potter born in Ouricuri, in the interior of Pernambuco. Now recognized and respected, her work is sui generis, since only she and her daughter make frowns out of clay; even her son-in-law makes them out of wood, like the other frown makers.
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