| RCS/Y30446F contains: |
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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 |
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Landscape with cattle grazing outside the town of Sinkunia, Dembella country, Protectorate of Sierra Leone |
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Town of Sinkunia, Dembella country, Protectorate of Sierra Leone |
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A forest of oil palms, 1000 yards inland from Sulima, Sherbro District, Sierra Leone. Photographed January 1898 |
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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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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. |
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| 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 |
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Reproduced in (Alldridge 1901, figure 39) where it is entitled 'Serenading - a soloist, Upper Mendi'.
Indexed
CN 386.
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| Index Terms |
| Africa |
| Sierra Leone |
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