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[^0]:    2 Travel diary written by Captain João Blaer (1645). Document translated from Dutch by Alfredo de Carvalho (extracted from an unpublished collection named Brieven em Papieren uit Brasilien) and published in the Revista do Instituto Arqueológico e Geográfico de Pernambuco, edition 55, 1902, pp. 87-96. For Palmares, see Dos Santos Gomes (2005b).
3 Annals of the Biblioteca Nacional, Volume 108 (1988), Rio de Janeiro, 1992, pp. 47-113. The floor plan of the Buraco do Tatu quilombo was published in Schwartz 1987, pp. 17-61.  
through trenches, caves and stakes; these were also linked to African models and symbolism in the diaspora. In 1746, the residents of Campo Grande defended themselves with levers and a trench they had dug. ${ }^{4}$ Upon attempting to ambush the quilombo of Pedra da Menina in 1768, troops encountered a fence, a false vallum and a multitude of stakes. In the 1980s, pioneering research conducted in Minas Gerais located 'channels' in the archaeological sites of the Ambrósio quilombo (Guimarães et al., 1990). The ruins of quilombos located in the Ubá region were also discovered in the early decades of the twentieth century; records mention 'trenches of considerable width and depth' (Dos Santos Gomes, 2005).  
As the interiors were commonly divided into rooms, the social organization of the mocambos/quilombos may be speculated upon based on the representation of their layout. The specific representations of ironworkers' homes and the homes belonging to the 'council', of their roles and of their locations may be related to religious and ritual purposes reinvented in the diaspora. Ironworkers were predominant among various ethnic groups in regions of Central and West Africa, and many of the enslaved people sent to Brazil, in particular to Minas Gerais, over the course of the eighteenth century originated from these regions.