Just a stone's throw from the swank modern hotels and apartment houses along Copacabana Beach, white-clad macumba worshipers assembles on the famous Rio De Janeiro beach for a public ritual. To aces of the ancient African culture which was brought to Brazil in the colonial era by the four million African slaves (imported to work the vast plantations) survive in Macumba -- Brazil's version of voodoo

Photo is dated 1962.

Photo measures 9 x 7.75 inches.