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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
20 A country loom, Massaia, Warra Warra Limba Country, Protectorate of Sierra Leone
21 Native carriers bringing down produce, packed in palm leaf hampers carried on their backs. Mendi Country
22 Dancing women in Upper Mendi, wearing a musical appendage called the Bunjue. Jowati, Upper Mendi
23 The Bundu Devil peculiar to the Mendi Country
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T.J. Alldridge Sierra Leone collection, 1890s

Title A princess of Dama Country, Upper Mendi
Reference Y30446F/18
Extent and Medium Good condition.
Content and context

111 x 156 mm. A full length portrait of a Mendi girl, dressed in a skirt of patterned cloth and wearing bracelets and a necklace.

Further information

Reproduced in (Alldridge 1901, figure 39) where it is entitled 'Serenading - a soloist, Upper Mendi'.

Indexed

CN 386.

Index Terms
Africa
Sierra Leone
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