M0005502: Headdress used in Bundu Secret Society, Sierra Leone

Date:
4 August 1938
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/45/15
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M0005502: Headdress used in Bundu Secret Society, Sierra Leone. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Head-dress used in Burdu Secret Society, Sierra Leone

Description

Photograph of a headdress used in Bundu Secret Society, also known as Sande, a women's society based in the Central West Atlantic Region of Africa. The headdress was previously part of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum but is not held by Wellcome Collection.

Publication/Creation

4 August 1938

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 16.5 x 21.5 cm

Copyright note

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

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 2021.

Terms of use

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

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