Photographic Print

Black and white photographic print showing a group of Mende women playing a gourd rattle, or segure/segbureh. Other people are seen around them. The Brighton Museum and Art Gallery has the same photograph, and written in pencil on the back of the image is Fig. 37, p.122 / Playing the Sehgura - the national musical instrument of the Mendi women / Alldridge Neg List No 9. This is an albumen print. Published as Figure 37 in T. J. Alldridge, 1901, The Sherbro and Its Hinterland (London: Macmillan).

Further Information

  • Type: Photographs
  • Object: Photographic Print
  • Materials: Paper
  • Culture Group: Mende
  • Dimensions: 110mm [L] x 150mm [W]
  • Production Date: 1850-1900
  • Associated Places: Unknown
  • Associated People: Thomas Joshua Alldridge (Photographer)
  • Museum: British Museum
  • Accession Number: BM:Af.B84.28

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