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 card is signed: T.J. Alldridge F.R.C.S. , and captioned Mendi women playing the “Sehgura”, the national musical instrument used by women throughout the Mendi Country, West Africa . Published as Figure 37 in T. J. Alldridge, 1901, The Sherbro and Its Hinterland (London: Macmillan). Same as BMAG:WA900254.

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Further Information

  • Type: Photographs
  • Object: Photographic Print
  • Materials: Paper
  • Culture Group: Mende
  • Dimensions: 154mm x 112mm
  • Production Date: 1890-1900
  • Associated Places: Unknown
  • Associated People: Thomas Joshua Alldridge (Photographer)
  • Museum: Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
  • Accession Number: BMAG:WA900182

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