M0005353: A man dancing with a ceremonial bow at a Poro festival, Sierra Leone

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Dancing with the huge ceremonial bow used at the Poro festivals. He is aping and very stupid hunter who cannot use his bow.

Photograph of a man dancing with the huge ceremonial bow used at the Poro festivals. The Poro is a men's secret society in West Africa

December 1937

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 2021.

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