The colony · 1787–1895
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.
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Kent, Sierra Leone, from the bananas 1865
Auteur inconnu · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Source ↗ · Report this picture
The Net Mender (Garnbinderen) 1879
Christian Krohg · Public domain (CC0) · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Source ↗ · Report this picture
Leather quiver with iron-tipped arrows, Mandingo, 1790s Collected 1792–96
Original title: Cogs, quivers
Public domain (CC0) · Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm · Source ↗ · Report this picture
Leather quiver with a basketwork cap, Mandingo, 1790s Collected 1792–96
Original title: Cogs, quivers
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