IDNO

P.7025.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Women’s initiation ceremony.

Place

W Africa; Sierra Leone

Cultural Affliation

Mende [historically Mendi]

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being “Africa; West Africa; Mendi”, but the Mende are a cultural group of south central Sierra Leone. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [Source: Ethnologue 15th Edition, JD 2/6/2009]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 2/6/2009]