Photographic Print

Black and white photographic print showing a section of a village (Kase Town, Sherbro). A group of people is sitting against a house. Before them an area of the ground is marked off by a circle of bottles, surrounding a grave. Published opposite p.100 in T. J. Alldridge, 1910, A Transformed Colony (London: Seeley) with the caption: A grave surrounded by gin bottles: The ceremony after the death of any person of consequence is called pulling the cry, and is not unlike a wake. Much gin is drunk, and the empty bottles are inserted neck downwards in the earth around the grave. An empty demijohn which had contained rum, ornaments the hut on the left, and a broken gin bottle that on the right.

Further Information

  • Type: Photographs
  • Object: Photographic Print
  • Materials: Paper
  • Culture Group: Other
  • Dimensions: 162mm x 122mm
  • Production Date: 1890-1900
  • Associated Places: Kase Town, near Kase Lake
  • Associated People: Thomas Joshua Alldridge (Photographer)
  • Museum: Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
  • Accession Number: BMAG:WA900291

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