The caricatures of all Calixto Cordeiro were elaborated to underpin Lima Campos’s text entitled Capoeira,9 whose subject was the presentation of the elements of Capoeira fight in Rio de Janeiro from the carioca (Rio inhabitant) first republic context. These caricatures identify a few of the components in the circumstance of the game, notably references on motions and strikes, the more technical slang, really common among practitioners of the body language during the 19th and early 20th centuries, along with some distinctive features between groups10 of all capoeiras of that period.

The identifying features took into consideration the presence of Maltas,11 Nagoas, also Guayamús at Rio de Janeiro, contemplating the allusions for their colours and the way of employing the hat — to the former, the strap having white on red and the hat with a leading brim pointing forwards, and to the latter, then strap using red on white and a hat having front brim lifted upwards. capoeira schools