Photographic Print

Black and white photographic print showing four young women, initiated into the Sande society, wearing traditional hair styles which bare resemblance to those depicted on many Sowei masks. One girl has her face painted, two other girls have scarification marks over their forehead and stomach. All the girls also bear similar body adornment, or jewellery, across the chest and round the neck. The Brighton Museum and Art Gallery has the same photograph, and written in pencil on the back of the image is Fig. 63, p.211 / Bundu [Sande] girls, Vassa Country. This is an albumen print. Published as Figure 63 in T. J. Alldridge, 1901, The Sherbro and Its Hinterland (London: Macmillan).

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Further Information

  • Type: Photographs
  • Object: Photographic Print
  • Materials: Paper
  • Culture Group: Mende
  • Dimensions: 113mm [L] x 153mm [W]
  • Production Date: 1850-1900
  • Associated Places: Unknown
  • Associated People: Thomas Joshua Alldridge (Photographer)
  • Museum: British Museum
  • Accession Number: BM:Af.B84.29

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