M0001007: Two women wearing Bundu wooden face masks

Date:
08 August 1930
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/9/59
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M0001007: Two women wearing Bundu wooden face masks. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Reproduction of a photograph with the caption "Bundu Devils" depicting two women wearing Bundu face masks. Bundu (also known as Bondo and Sande) is a women's society in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and the Ivory Coast. The mask embodies the guardian spirit of the society and is worn during traditional masquerades. The reproduction is from an unknown publication.

Publication/Creation

08 August 1930

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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