NWT690: Mende Story

Historical wax cylinder recording made by Northcote Whitridge Thomas, a British government anthropologist who conducted field research in Sierra Leone in 1914-15. NWT690 (?m on cylinder rim). 1. Announcement: Record 690, Mende story, Kenema, January 205th 1915. 2. Ref tone. 3. Male speech. 4. Same story, repeated 5. Male speech. Reasonable quality recording but with weak signal and surface noise. C51/3094 is the master, C51/3095 is a duplicate. This is a digital access version of an original wax cylinder recording held in the collection of the British Library. Supplied and used with permission from The British Library.

Further Information

• Type: Wax Cylinder Recordings
• Object: NWT690: Mende Story
• Materials: No Data / Other
• Culture Group: Mende
• Dimensions: 133 [Duration]
• Production Date: 1915.01.20
• Associated Places: Kenema
• Associated People: Thomas, Northcote Whitridge (1868-1936) [Sound Recordist]
• Museum: British Library
• Accession Number: BL:C51/3094

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