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| 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 |
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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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The Bundu Devil attended by her satellites, a country institution common throughout Mendi Land |
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Native warboys, Bombari Country, Upper Mendi |
| 26 |
Group of Bundu girls, Yandahu, Vassa, Upper Mendi |
| 27 |
The late chief Kai Lundu, Luawa Country, Upper Mendi |
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T.J. Alldridge Sierra Leone collection, 1890s
| Title |
Dancing women in Upper Mendi, wearing a musical appendage called the Bunjue. Jowati, Upper Mendi |
| Reference |
Y30446F/22 |
| Covering Dates |
Mar. 1891 |
| Extent and Medium |
Good condition, apart from slight yellowing. |
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| Content and context |
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109 x 152 mm. A full length portrait of three girls, taken from the rear and in profile showing the Bunjue tied round their waists: 'Figure 67 [i.e. this print] shows three women having round their waists a musical instrument called the 'Bunjue'. This consists of a foundation of palm-leaf rope, from which depends a quantity of short pieces of rattan cane. Fixed to the other end of the cane are several halves of hard shells of large seeds. As the women dance, which they do with great energy, the sound of these half-shells and the cane all rattling together, creates a noise which is quite in keeping with the native taste and is warmly applauded. I was very fortunate in obtaining this photograph, for, curiously enough, I have never seen a similar dance since.' (Alldridge 1901, page 244).
A photograph taken at the town of Befuin (?Bafeihun) near Juru, to which Alldridge was going to witness the crowning of Batte Kakka, paramount chief of the Gaura country in succession to Mendingra (or Mendegra), a ceremony which took place on April 1 1891.
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| Further information |
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Reproduced in (Alldridge 1901, figure 67).
Indexed
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| Index Terms |
| Africa |
| Sierra Leone |
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