M0001007: Two women wearing Bundu wooden face masks

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.

08 August 1930

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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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