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

RCS/Y30446F contains:
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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
24	The Bundu Devil attended by her satellites, a country institution common throughout Mendi Land
25	Native warboys, Bombari Country, Upper Mendi
26	Group of Bundu girls, Yandahu, Vassa, Upper Mendi
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T.J. Alldridge Sierra Leone collection, 1890s

Title	Native carriers bringing down produce, packed in palm leaf hampers carried on their backs. Mendi Country
Reference	Y30446F/21
Extent and Medium	Good condition, apart from slight yellowing.

Content and context

113 x 159 mm. Showing a line of bearers carrying produce (probably palm kernels) along a jungle track in the Sherbro hinterland. The hampers are long cylindrical baskets made of palm leaves attached to a wooden framework. Transport difficulties were one of the main impediments to opening up the country for trade before construction work started on the railway in the mid 1890's: Alldridge estimated that it took 30 men to transport a ton of palm kernels in the manner seen here.

Further information

Reproduced in (Alldridge 1901, figure 4).

Indexed

Index Terms

Africa

Sierra Leone

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