Bust

Wooden bust of Reverend Fr. Cornelius Mulcahy, Principal of St. Edward's Secondary School, Freetown between 1923 and 1941. Mulcahy was a Catholic missionary, who went out to Sierra Leone in 1917. He died suddenly in a Freetown hospital in 1941 and is buried at the Kissy Road Cemetery in Freetown. The donor trained as a sculptor at Hammersmith College in London.

Further Information

• Type: Figures, sculpture
• Object: Bust
• Materials: Wood
• Culture Group: Other
• Dimensions: 864mm
• Production Date: Pre 1961
• Associated Places: Bathurst Street, Freetown
• Associated People: Mr. C.E. Stanley
• Museum: Sierra Leone National Museum
• Accession Number: SLNM.1961.15.01

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