Across the Americas, there are few iconographic records or cartographic representations of these communities in the colonial and post-colonial contexts of slavery. In Brazil's case, however, maps and floor plans of colonial quilombos and mocambos in Minas Gerais and Bahia do exist. The manuscripts section of the national library contains the Ottoni collection of documents on colonial Minas Gerais, which features six floor plans of quilombos in Minas Gerais in 1769. These floor plans, along with a map (found in the Portuguese archives) of the mocambo of Buraco do Tatu, which was located in Bahia and destroyed in 1763, are almost the only such sources of information on these communities of fugitive slaves in the Americas. ${ }^{3}$ Although the result of punitive colonial expeditions, they nonetheless constitute original representations of the social spaces, houses, homes, economy and defence systems of these enslaved communities. Occasionally neglected, evidence of the material culture of Brazil's mocambos and quilombos is suggested in descriptions of the defence systems they adopted. The Torre do Tombo national archive in Lisbon contains documents on the impact of the wars waged on Pernambuco's Palmares quilombo during the governorship of Pedro de Almeida, from 1675 to 1678. These documents describe the main part of the largest mocambo, indicating that it was fortified by a wooden fence and open trenches and that the outside part was surrounded by caltrops and ditches. The maps and floor plans of colonial mocambos in Minas Gerais and Bahia include many such descriptions. Buraco do Tatu featured a complex defence system at the rear, front and sides, with mazes of pointed stakes concealed in camouflaged caves. Such defences also featured secret exits and false trails in order to help the residents make a fast escape if necessary. The defences of the mocambos of Minas Gerais included ditches, channels, stakes, trenches and swamps. Many quilombos had picadas, which were false entryways  
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