The colony · 1787–1895
What people wore and how they wore it: gowns and wrappers, head-ties and hats, hair dressed for the occasion, beads and bangles.
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Costumes of West Africa - a Kroo-Man 1820–30
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Costumes of West Africa - Ministrels 1820–30
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