Photographic Print

Black and white photographic print showing a rope bridge across a river. Three westerners are standing nearby. Written in pencil on the back of the photograph is Fig. 73, p. 286 / A Yenketti bridge over the Sehli [Seli] River, Koinaduga . Published as Figure 73 in T. J. Alldridge, 1901, The Sherbro and Its Hinterland (London: Macmillan). Sir Frederic Cardew, Governor of Sierra Leone between 1894 and 1900, is pictured in the foreground. Of the bridge Alldridge writes: It is constructed entirely of long, coarsely interwoven rattan canes, the sides being supported by extra long canes, depending from the high trees upon both sides of the river. The elevation at both ends is some 25 feet above the water, but drops in the centre to about 12 feet. It is hardly necessary to remark that the oscillation of this bridge and its elasticity were such as to entirely absorb one's undivided attention, while groping an exceedingly unsteady and fitful passage through this swinging and dangerous open-work structure (pp.286-87).

Further Information

  • Type: Photographs
  • Object: Photographic Print
  • Materials: Paper
  • Culture Group: Other
  • Dimensions: 164mm x 121mm
  • Production Date: 1894
  • Associated Places: Koinadugu
  • Associated People: Thomas Joshua Alldridge (Photographer); Sir Frederic Cardew (Subject)
  • Museum: Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
  • Accession Number: BMAG:WA900283

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