Janus: T.J. Alldridge Sierra Leone collection, 1890s

RCS/Y30446F contains:
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9	Group of Bundu girls in dancing costume, Jowati, Upper Mendi, Front view
10	Group of Bundu girls in dancing costume, Jowati, Upper Mendi. Back view
11	Mode of travelling through the bush by track paths too narrow for the 4 man hammock. Subu Country, Mendi, W.C. Africa
12	A fetish dwarf, Upper Mendi, W.C. Africa
13	Petty trading by Sierra Leone women on the open street, Benthe, Sherbro, W.C. Africa
14	Beating the Sangboi or tom-tom, national musical instrument for men throughout Mendi country, W.C. Africa
15	Landscape with cattle grazing outside the town of Sinkunia, Dembella country, Protectorate of Sierra Leone
16	Town of Sinkunia, Dembella country, Protectorate of Sierra Leone
17	A forest of oil palms, 1000 yards inland from Sulima, Sherbro District, Sierra Leone. Photographed January 1898
18	A princess of Dama Country, Upper Mendi
19	The cemetery at Waima, showing the graves of the British officers and men who fell when the place was attacked by the French under Lieut. Moritz, December 1893. Lieut. Moritz is also buried in the first enclosure
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T.J. Alldridge Sierra Leone collection, 1890s

Title	Beating the Sangboi or tom-tom, national musical instrument for men throughout Mendi country, W.C. Africa
Reference	Y30446F/14
Extent and Medium	Good condition, apart from slight yellowing.

Content and context

155 x 107 mm. Showing a group of Mendi drummers with villagers standing behind them in the background: 'Mendis never tire of beating this drum - it is their one delight. I have known them up-country play through the entire night, and when gangs of men are sent out by the chief to work upon the roads they are invariably accompanied by the tom-tom beater who plays while they work, and so urges them to greater exertion.' (Alldridge 1901, page 105).

Further information

Reproduced in (Alldridge 1901, figure 33).

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