Photographic Print

Black and white photographic print showing five girls with their faces painted in white clay and wearing elaborate costumes. They are likely to be recently initiated into the Sande society, and potentially sampa . Written in pencil on the back of the photograph is Fig. 45, p. 138 / Bundu [Sande] girls in dancing costume / Alldridge Neg List No 45 . Published as Figure 45 in T. J. Alldridge, 1901, The Sherbro and Its Hinterland (London: Macmillan).