Old photographs, stamps and film · 1961–1990
Many were made by colonial officials, missionaries and foreign visitors. Titles and descriptions come from the collections that hold them and can carry the attitudes and language of their time. We show them as historical records, not as endorsements. Dates, eras and categories were assigned automatically from those records and some will be wrong. If you or your family appear in a picture, you hold rights to one, a detail is wrong, or you think a picture should not be here, press “Report this picture” under it: your note reaches our editors with the picture attached, and they can take it down straight away. You can also write to hello@dt-ets.com.
Stone tools from rock shelters, nomoli figures turned up in farms, iron smelters, and the ivory carvings Sapi artists made for Portuguese traders in the 1400s and 1500s.
Prehistoric clay pots-Sierra Leone National Museum 1968
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Prehistoric clay pots-Sierra Leone National Museum (2) 1968
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Prehistoric clay pots-Sierra Leone National Museum (3) 1968
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Soapstone figure, blackened Collected by 1971
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Books, letters and papers: the first gospels printed in Bullom and Temne, tales told by Temne elders and written down in 1861, letters in Arabic script, and the paperwork of ordinary lives.
Before email 4 Air letter from Saltpond, Ghana to Kabala, Sierra Leone (West Africa) January 1968 (3703187062) 2009
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My Sierra Leone Drivers License, 1968 (4101420583) 2009
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BGEN A.B. Toronka, deputy force commander, Sierra Leone military forces, signs a letter accepting medical supplies and equipment from the Un 1 October 1989
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Airmail envelope from Kabala, Sierra Leone (West Africa) to Portland, Oregon (USA) (3710984093) Sent 1980
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Where people lived: streets, markets, houses, churches and mosques, and the villages upcountry.
Looking over the city 1968
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Freetown and the harbour 1967–68
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Young woman, Freetown 1968
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A street in Freetown, 1967 1967
Martinsson, Erik · Public domain (CC0) · Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm · Source ↗ · Report this picture
Kufan 1967
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Village in northern Sierra Leone (West Africa) (851481247) 1967
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Boulders on a hill above Bafodia, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (571225919) 1968
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Children in Freetown, Sierra Leone (West Africa), 1968 (1683284714) 1968
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Freetown, Sierra Leone (West Africa) 1968 (2289709675) 1968
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Freetown, Sierra Leone (West Africa) in 1968 (11975060165) Taken in 1968
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Large boulders on a hill above Bafodia, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (2080553973) 1968
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Next-Door neighbours, Kabala, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (486810290) 1968
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Rice farms, palm oil and kernels, fishing nets and traps, cooking, shops, mines and markets: the work that fed the country and paid its way.
Advertising sign for Star beer, Pendembu, Sierra Leone (West Africa), 1967 (1709257876) 1967
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Children at a farm shelter near Kakoya, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (2098442312) 1967
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Man 1967
Martinsson, Erik · Public domain (CC0) · Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm · Source ↗ · Report this picture
TemneChildren 1967
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Arrowheads-Sierra Leone National Museum 1968
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Arrows-Sierra Leone National Museum 1968
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Arrows-Sierra Leone National Museum (2) 1968
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Bow and arrows-Sierra Leone National Museum 1968
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Lansana Kamara and four of his children, Kabala, Sierra Leone (west Africa) 1968 (2632474492) 1968
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Lansana Kamara (centre) at his store pub in Kabala, Sierra Leone (West Africa), 1968 (500222834) 1968
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Lansana Kamara, pub shop owner, Kabala, Sierra Leone (West Africa), 1968 (2098862490) 1968
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Mandingo children with freshly-caught bats from a cave on Kufan Mountain above Balandugu, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (411554154) 1968
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What hands made: country cloth spun and woven on the narrow loom, gara dyeing, baskets, pots, carving and smithing.
The Cotton Tree 1970
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Clay pot, bottom view, Kabala, Sierra Leone (west Africa) 1967 (2782735346) 1967
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Clay pot, side view, Kabala, Sierra Leone (west Africa) 1967 (2782733674) 1967
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Women with baskets, Freetown, 1967 1967
Martinsson, Erik · Public domain (CC0) · Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm · Source ↗ · Report this picture
A house in the English colonial style, Freetown, 1967 1967
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Blue and purple gara lappa with diagonal white lines 1982
Kadiato Kamara · Public domain (CC0) · Wereldmuseum (National Museum of World Cultures) · Source ↗ · Report this picture
Blue and purple gara lappa with diagonal white lines (second cloth) 1982
Kadiato Kamara · Public domain (CC0) · Wereldmuseum (National Museum of World Cultures) · Source ↗ · Report this picture
Green-brown gara cloth with white zigzags 1982
Kadiato Kamara · Public domain (CC0) · Wereldmuseum (National Museum of World Cultures) · Source ↗ · Report this picture
Dark blue gara cloth with a light blue tied pattern 1982
Kadiato Kamara · Public domain (CC0) · Wereldmuseum (National Museum of World Cultures) · Source ↗ · Report this picture
Rust-brown gara cloth with rows of tied marks 1982
Kadiato Kamara · Public domain (CC0) · Wereldmuseum (National Museum of World Cultures) · Source ↗ · Report this picture
Girl's gara wrap skirt with tied circles 1983
Kadiato Kamara · Public domain (CC0) · Wereldmuseum (National Museum of World Cultures) · Source ↗ · Report this picture
Ronko: dyed and stamped trousers, jacket and cap (Limba: huron) 1983
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What people wore and how they wore it: gowns and wrappers, head-ties and hats, hair dressed for the occasion, beads and bangles.
1960s urban African fashion (2536309523) 1968
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Mandingo girls dressed up for a celebration, Kabala, Sierra Leone (west Africa) 1968 (3126465405) 1968
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Mandingo (Mandinka) girl, Kabala, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (2253947690) 1968
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Urban West African fashions, 1968 (5997068654) 2011
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The Sande (Bondo) and Poro societies and their masquerades, nomoli and minsereh figures, and the churches and mosques. Pictures of society matters stay behind a notice, out of respect.
American missionary couple with residents of Bafodia, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (2098796682) 1968
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Sierra Leone credentials to the EC 1971 1971
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Soapstone figure, blackened Collected by 1971
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Wooden figure of a woman, Temne Collected by 1971
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Loom pulley carved as a head with a snake Collected by 1972
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Cloth 1982
Kadiato Kamara · Public domain (CC0) · Wereldmuseum (National Museum of World Cultures) · Source ↗ · Report this picture
Statuette In the museum by 1974
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Drums, horns, harps and rattles, dancers and drummers, and the bands of the city.
The Sierra Leone National Dance Troupe, 1965 1965
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A drummer at a dance school near Freetown, 1967 1967
Martinsson, Erik · Public domain (CC0) · Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm · Source ↗ · Report this picture
Musicians at a dance school near Freetown, 1967 1967
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At a dance school near Freetown, 1967 1967
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A dance acrobat at a dance school near Freetown, 1967 1967
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Wooden goblet drum before 1983
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Necklace of horn discs bound tight on a string In the museum by 1974
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Powder horn In the museum by 1961
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Classrooms and Qur'an schools, Fourah Bay College, teachers and students, at home and abroad.
1960s urban African fashion (2787712654) 1968
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1960s urban african fashion - closeup (2790471246) 1968
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Apartment near Fourah Bay College overlooking Freetown, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (2066773005) 1968
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Freetown, Sierra Leone (West Africa) from an apartment near Fourah Bay College (2536946628) 1968
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Teacher Beth Avery and her students, Bafodia, Sierra Leone (West Africa), 1968 (500247177) 1968
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VW Bus near Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone (west Africa) (2536939286) 1968
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RIAN archive 726716 March 8 celebration at Patrice Lumumba University 1972
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RIAN archive 726717 Celebration of March 8 International Women's Day at Patrice Lumumba People's Friendship University 1972
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Madam Gladys Jusu Sheriff Former Librarian of the Fourah Bay College University 1990
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Paramount chiefs and their courts, governors and presidents, independence, parades, rallies and the law.
The Law Courts and the Cotton Tree 1984
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President John F. Kennedy Meets with the Ambassador of Sierra Leone, Dr. Richard E. Kelfa-Caulker 1961
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President John F. Kennedy Meets with William H. Fitzjohn, Charge d'Affairs of Sierra Leone 1961
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Bonn: aid agreement with Sierra Leone 8 April 1965
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David Lansana 1965-04-29 1965
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Kamamodia, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (2116141848) 1967
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Mamadou Mansaray, Bafodia, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (474087878) 1967
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The village of Kakoya (Koya), Sierra Leone (West Africa) (2118689384) 1967
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Town Chief, Kamamodia, Sierra Leone, 1967 (6006710153) 1967
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1960s All Peoples Congress (APC) Political Rally in Kabala, Sierra Leone (West Africa) 1968 --- another view (2180650529) 1968
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All People's Congress political rally Sierra Leone 1968 1968
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All Peoples Congress (APC) Political Rally in Kabala, Sierra Leone (West Africa) 1968 (445062955) 1968
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The Hut Tax War, Freetown's harbour in the two world wars, the civil war of 1991–2002 and the soldiers and peacekeepers who came after.
Independence Day parade, Israel, 1965: the crowd, with Sierra Leone's chief of staff and his wife 1965
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19th century Limba arrows held by Mamadou Mansaray, town chief of Bafodia, Sierra Leone (West Africa) 1967 (441008707) 1968
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Close-up of late 19th - early 20th century iron-tipped arrows owned by Mamadou Mansaray, Bafodia, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (2078175703) 1968
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Political Rally in Kabala, Sierra Leone (West Africa), April, 1968 1968
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Hospitals and healers, the Ebola epidemic of 2014–16 and the people who fought it, and the floods and the mudslide of 2017.
Chapel, Nixon Memorial Hospital, Segbwema, Sierra Leone 1962 1962
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Entrance to Nixon Memorial Hospital, Segbwema, Sierra Leone 1962 1962
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Maternity Ward, Nixon Memorial Hospital, Segbwema, Sierra Leone, Feb 1962 1962
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Maternity Ward, Nixon Memorial Hospital, Segbwema, Sierra Leone, Feb 1962 (2) 1962
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West African children with freshly-caught bats (13997300073) circa 1967
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Man giving blood in Sierra Leone clinic, 1977 1977
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How people and goods moved: canoes and steamers, the railway (1896–1974), lorries, bridges and the airport.
Dominic and my VW near Kamamodia, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (2072236880) 1967
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Wild "bush yam" vine; the tubers were used in the past and in recent times during times of hunger by the Limba peoples of northern Sierra Le 1967
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Loading my VW, Kabala, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (839672710) 1968
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Sierra Leone 1970 - train to Bo 11-07-1970
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Gara headscarf, pink-red with tied circles, made by Kadiato Kamara 1982
Kadiato Kamara · Public domain (CC0) · Wereldmuseum (National Museum of World Cultures) · Source ↗ · Report this picture
Gara cloth with a map of Africa tied in small circles 1982
Kadiato Kamara · Public domain (CC0) · Wereldmuseum (National Museum of World Cultures) · Source ↗ · Report this picture
Blue wax-resist cloth with large white patches 1982
Kadiato Kamara · Public domain (CC0) · Wereldmuseum (National Museum of World Cultures) · Source ↗ · Report this picture
Skirt, t-shirt 1983
Kadiato Kamara · Public domain (CC0) · Wereldmuseum (National Museum of World Cultures) · Source ↗ · Report this picture
Blue gara wrap skirt and wax-patterned T-shirt 1983
Kadiato Kamara · Public domain (CC0) · Wereldmuseum (National Museum of World Cultures) · Source ↗ · Report this picture
Brown gara dress with tied oblong pattern and belt 1983
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VW bus near farm shelter along road in northern Sierra Leone (West Africa) (851713453) Photographed 1967 or 1968
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Mountains, rivers, beaches, forests and the animals and birds that live in them.
Kakoya Cave, Sierra Leone 1967 1967
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Wara-Wara Mountains near Bafodia, Northern Sierra Leone (West Africa) 1967 (852679997) 1968
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Chameleon in Bafodia, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (488440980) 1968
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Hills at the end of the dry season near Bumban, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (2047772064) 1968
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Hills near Bumban, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (2103931925) 1968
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Sierra Leone 1970 - sunset 1970
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Portraits and gatherings: people photographed by others, most of them still unnamed. If you know someone here, tell us.
Girl on her way to get water, Kabala, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (429383227) 1967
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Kabala, Sierra Leone (West Africa) in the 1960s (2639915751) 1967
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Kamamodia, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (535338555) 1967
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Neighbours, Kabala, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (838936581) 1967
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Proud sister, Kabala, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (439132758) 1967
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Sisters, Pendembu, Sierra Leone (West Africa), 1967 --- another view (2191008629) 1967
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Smiling sisters, Pendembu, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (438984338) 1967
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Young boys in Pendembu, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (488443064) 1967
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Girl next door, Kabala, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (963544729) 1968
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Grandmother and grandchild, Kabala, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (429386055) 1968
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Kabala, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (839976300) 1968
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Me and the kids next door, Kabala, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (2060290138) 1968
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The coast and the country as mapmakers drew them, from the Portuguese pilots to the surveyors of the colony.
Sierra Leone 1961
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Sierra Leone, administrative divisions. LOC 94686110 1966
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Sierra Leone. 1-69. LOC 73696406 1969
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Sierra Leone. 1-69. LOC gm70003087 1969
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Sierra Leone, administrative divisions. 3-69. LOC gm70003342 1969
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Sierra leone ethnic 1969 2006
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Western Sierra Leone 1969 1969
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Liberia Sierra Leone border 1970
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Guinea Sierra Leone border 1972
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Sierra Leone. LOC 97687571 1977
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Sierra Leone. LOC 97687571 1977
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Sierra Leone. LOC 2005632108 1982
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Kissi pennies, colonial coins and the leone.
20 Sierra Leone Cents (1964)
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Sierra Leone 1964 Half Cent Obv 2010
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Sierra Leone 1964 Half Cent Rev 1964
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Locally-made metal-bladed axe, cowry shells and a coin left as an offering on a rock high above a farm in Wara Wara Bafodia Chiefdom, northe 1968
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What the colony and the country chose to put on their letters.
In and out of Sierra Leone and Senegal 1967
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Pictures and things we haven't yet sorted onto a shelf. Tell us what they show.
Bafodia, Sierra Leone (West Africa) 1967 (2636685678) 1967
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Pendembu, Sierra Leone (west Africa) 1967 (2268524820) 1967
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