The choreography repeated from generation to generation, the collective effort to lower and raise the rafts into the sea; the nautical gestures and respect for the right tide time; the knowledge passed down from father to son; a profession entangled with many others—roleiros, rafters, painters, sail makers, carpenters, and boat builders.

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