Two Sierra Leonean women walking past Bungie's undertaker in Freetown

A black and white landscape photograph showing two women walking past Bungie's undertaker. The two women have their backs to the camera and both wear dresses with short-sleeves and headwraps. The woman closest to the camera is carring something on her head. The building they are passing has four barn doors at grond level and smaller windows above. Various wooden objects, including what may be a handcart, are arranged in front of the doors. Six signs are attached the wall above the doors and seventh hangs down. All have legible or semi-legible advertising messages on them, including 'SYMPATHETIC UNDERTAKER', 'CORPSE WASHED & DRESSED', 'FEAR GOD', 'READY MADE COFFINS', 'DO NOT LIVE LIKE A FOOL' and 'THAT'S BUNGIE'. The roof of the building and the tops of trees behind it are also visible. Original caption (in white beneath the photograph): 'The sympathetic Undertaker'. The page, inclding three other photographs, is also captioned 'FREETOWN. SIERRA LEONE / JAN 28th - FEB 19th 1933'.

Object Details

ID: ALB1340.10
Type: Photographic print
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 1933
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London