Photo taken at Lençóis, Chapada Diamantina region, Bahia, by Guilherme Jófili/Flickr
Here is a great series of Flickr pictures of women washing clothes – theirs or their clients’s. But, first, a video of sambista Clementina de Jesus singing “Ensaboa”, a song by Cartola that says: “lather, mulatto girl, lather”.
One more by Guilherme Jófili/FlickrPublic area to wash clothes in Goianinha, Rio Grande do Norte state. Photo by Beraldo Leal/ FlickrAnother public washer, in Cosme de Farias, Bahia. Photo by Carol Garcia/ Government of Bahia/Flickr
Somewhere in the outback in Bahia. Photo by Ana Cotta/ Flickr
São Francisco river, in Juazeiro, Ceará state. Photo by Glauco Umbelino/ Flickr
