A group of Bundu female dancers all wearing necklaces of beads which are filled with medicines. Halftone after a photograph by T.J. Alldridge.

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A group of Bundu female dancers all wearing necklaces of beads which are filled with medicines. Halftone after a photograph by T.J. Alldridge. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1 process print : halftone ; image 6.6 x 15 cm

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Bundu incantations. ... Photo by T.J. Alldridge, I.S.O. Lettering continues: "The dancers all wore fetishes peculiar to the order, each having special significance. These consisted of several ropes of cane cut into beads and rows of seeds which has been bored and filled with Bundu 'medicine'."

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