112 x 157 mm. Showing a Bundu Devil in characteristic costume and mask standing in front of a palm-thatched hut.

'The Bundu devil is a medicine woman who is believed to be capable of casting spells for good or evil over the men. There is generally a Bundu devil in any large town belonging to an important chief; but she does not appear in her peculiar costume unless she is especially called out to look into some misbehaviour on the part of the men, or upon some gala occasion, or upon the visit of strangers whom it is wished to honour ... Her distinctive costume is unvarying, all Bundu devils being similarly attired, except as regards their head-piece, which admits of some slight variation. No part of the body may be visible, consequently the cloth casings of the arms and legs are sewn up at the extremities, and in each covered hand the devil carries a little bunch of twigs with which she goes through a sort of dumb show - as she never does any talking. Her dress is of long shaggy fibre, dyed black, and over her head she wears a grotesque wooden mask. Occasionally she indulges in a dance, but, owing to the great heat produced by dancing in so heavy a dress, a little goes a long way ... I have had the honour of shaking the covered hand of a good many of these devils, whose fetish power is very great.' (Alldridge 1901, pages 141-141).