Photographic Print

Black and white photographic print showing four young girls wearing headdresses and waist beads. Two of the girls are have scarification marks on their stomachs. Written in pencil on the back of the photograph is Fig. 44, p. 137 / Bundu [Sande] girls wearing fetish medicine, Upper Mendi / Alldridge Neg List No 3 . Published as Figure 44 in T. J. Alldridge, 1901, The Sherbro and Its Hinterland (London: Macmillan). Alldridge describes the girls in the photograph as being the daughters of big chiefs, and notes that they are wearing a leopard's tooth, which is a sign of their having been free born, that is, not in slavery (p.137). He also writes that the loin cloths they are wearing are called Tutunias (ibid.).

Further Information

• Type: Photographs
• Object: Photographic Print
• Materials: Paper
• Culture Group: Mende, Other
• Dimensions: 164mm x 121mm
• Production Date: 1890-1900
• Associated Places: Unknown
• Associated People: Thomas Joshua Alldridge (Photographer)
• Museum: Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
• Accession Number: BMAG:WA900250

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