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

RCS/Y30446F contains:
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3	A group of Tasso men - a secret society - Imperri - Sherbro, W.C. Africa
4	Mendi woman playing the Seghura, the national musical instrument for women throughout the Mendi Country, W.C. Africa
5	Group of Imperri Chiefs photographed at Bambaia, Imperri, Sherbro, 4½ months before the native rising of 1898
6	Street Scene, Bonthe, Sherbro, W.C. Africa, January 1899
7	Street Scene, Bonthe, Sherbro, W.C. Africa, January 1899
8	Colonial cricket as played on the main road at Bonthe, Sherbro, January 1899
9	Group of Bundu girls in dancing costume, Jowati, Upper Mendi, Front view
10	Group of Bundu girls in dancing costume, Jowati, Upper Mendi. Back view
11	Mode of travelling through the bush by track paths too narrow for the 4 man hammock. Subu Country, Mendi, W.C. Africa
12	A fetish dwarf, Upper Mendi, W.C. Africa
13	Petty trading by Sierra Leone women on the open street, Benthe, Sherbro, W.C. Africa
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T.J. Alldridge Sierra Leone collection, 1890s

Title	Colonial cricket as played on the main road at Bonthe, Sherbro, January 1899
Reference	Y30446F/8
Covering Dates	Jan. 1899
Extent and Medium	Good condition.

Content and context

156 x 112 mm. Showing a group of variously dressed Africans playing cricket on a makeshift pitch on the main road under mango trees at Bonthe. As Alldridge remarks: 'Cricket ... has 'caught on'. I saw the game being played on the main road in Bonthe, about five o'clock one afternoon, and the team kindly stood in position long enough for me to photograph them.' (Aldridge 1901, page 44).

Further information

Reproduced in (Alldridge 1901, figure 10).

Indexed

CN 384 and CN 3181.

Index Terms

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