Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Musician's playing "cundenas" at the belena ceremony
1979
Africa; Sierra Leone
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.
Donor notes read: "Musician's playing "cundenas" at the belena ceremony; Dad's cundena is at the far right; that musician is blind; good picture of native cloths. Hunter's Belena ceremony at Kamba, March-April, 1979. The date on the slide is JUN 79.".
- Collection
- Christopher DeCorse photographs
- Archival grouping
- Christopher DeCorse photographs / Sierra Leone
- Catalog date
- 1979
- Recorded places
- Africa; Sierra Leone
- Cataloged creator or photographer
- DeCorse, Christopher R
- Recorded subjects
- Non-masked dance, music -- Photographs; Dance
- Format and extent
- 1 Slides (photographs) (col.)
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: EEPA.1993-028, Item EEPA.1993-028-1517
Collection: Christopher DeCorse photographs