Museu da Baiana

The Bahian Women are one of the symbols of Salvador de Bahia and this small museum is dedicated to them. They are black women, with big white dresses, that sell traditional street food in the city: acarajé (dough made with beans, fried with palm oil and stuffed with shrimp and a sauce made with chile). The acarajé is the ritual meal Orixá Lansã, one of the deities of Candomblé, the Afro-American religion of Bahia. According to tradition, it was the very Orixá Lansã who taught slaves to make acarajé to provide for their children, by selling it on the streets of the city.