Puppet figure depicting Bai Bureh

Bai Bureh, a great hero in Sierra Leone, was an important ruler who led an uprising against the British in 1898. He was eventually captured, exiled and later reinstated as a chief by the British. He died in 1906. A lantern called 'Crowning Festival of Bai Bureh' was built by Portee Muslim Lantern Club in 1993 and this photograph depicts Bai Bureh holding a sceptre and wearing a cloth costume. He is being carried in a hammock by bearers.