Sierra Leone Heritage ~ Reanimating cultural heritage

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 ...[more]

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.

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. [less]