The Sherbro and its hinterland . \TofaceJ>asc 136. ?&• 43-—BLNDL: {WlHTKNKI)).. [To face page 137. Y\g^ 44.—BuNDU Girls wearint. Fetish Medicine, Upper Mendi. CH. XIV SECRET SOCIETIES 137 some of the elderly women of the town to which the Bunduis affiliated ; and the country laws in connection with theBundu are so exceedingly severe that for any man toattempt to penetrate within its sacred precincts wouldprobably mean death. It is in the Bundu that the girls areinitiated into certain secret country customs appertainingto their sex. The entrance fee for a chaste girl is a bushelof cle
The Sherbro and its hinterland . \TofaceJ>asc 136. ?&• 43-—BLNDL: {WlHTKNKI)).. [To face page 137. Y\g^ 44.—BuNDU Girls wearint. Fetish Medicine, Upper Mendi. CH. XIV SECRET SOCIETIES 137 some of the elderly women of the town to which the Bunduis affiliated ; and the country laws in connection with theBundu are so exceedingly severe that for any man toattempt to penetrate within its sacred precincts wouldprobably mean death. It is in the Bundu that the girls areinitiated into certain secret country customs appertainingto their sex. The entrance fee for a chaste girl is a bushelof clean rice, a fowl, about a gallon of palm oil and, whenprocurable, one handkerchief and a bottle of rum. If thegirl is unchaste, a country cloth will suffice ; but aftermedicinal washing every girl must pay the value of a headof money ^^^3. The Bundu session is generally heldduring the rice season. The fees are divided amongstthe medicine women and the Bundu devils. While inthe Bundu bush all the girls wear round their waistsseveral ropes of bugle beads, called Piso, made fromlong thi
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