Photographic Print

Black and white photographic print showing three young women, probably initiated into the Sande society, wearing a rattle, or bunjue, on their backs while dancing. They wear pieces of imported printed cloth as skirtcloths, or lappa. It is card mounted and signed: T.J. Alldridge F.R.C.S. , with the caption: Upper Mendi women wearing the Bunjue – a musical accompaniment, suspended from the waist, while dancing . Published as Figure 67 in T. J. Alldridge, 1901, The Sherbro and Its Hinterland (London: Macmillan). Alldridge notes that the photograph was taken in a place he records as Befuin, where he was treated to a country dance the like of which [he] had never seen .

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Further Information

  • Type: Photographs
  • Object: Photographic Print
  • Materials: Paper
  • Culture Group: Mende
  • Dimensions: 109mm x 152mm
  • Production Date: 1890-1900
  • Associated Places: Befuin [near Yandahun]
  • Associated People: Thomas Joshua Alldridge (Photographer)
  • Museum: Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
  • Accession Number: BMAG:WA900245

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