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

RCS/Y30446F contains:
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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
27	The late chief Kai Lundu, Luawa Country, Upper Mendi
28	The Behlanjeh, the national musical instrument of the Mandingos
29	The beach at Sulima with breaking surf
30	Sulima
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T.J. Alldridge Sierra Leone collection, 1890s

Title	Native warboys, Bombari Country, Upper Mendi
Reference	Y30446F/25
Extent and Medium	Good condition, apart from slight overall yellowing.

Content and context

104 x 153 mm. Showing a group of three 'war-boys', dressed in loin-cloths and armed with swords and bows and arrows. This term for Mende mercenaries was coined by Sir Samuel Rowe (Governor of Sierra Leone 1877-81 and 1884-88).

Further information

Reproduced in (Alldridge 1901, figure 59).

Indexed

CN 1775.

Index Terms

Africa

Sierra Leone

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