NWT692: 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. NWT692 (m on cylinder rim). 1. Announcement: Record 690, repeated. 2. Ref tone. 3-4. Solo male speech. Reasonable quality recording but with weak signal and surface noise. C51/3098 (better quality) is the master, C51/3099 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: NWT692: Mende Story
• Materials: No Data / Other
• Culture Group: Mende
• Dimensions: 222 [Duration]
• Production Date: 1915.01.20
• Associated Places: Kenema
• Associated People: Thomas, Northcote Whitridge (1868-1936) [Sound Recordist]
• Museum: British Library
• Accession Number: BL:C51/3098

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