Since 1991 · 1991–today

Musicanddance

11 items

Drums, horns, harps and rattles, dancers and drummers, and the bands of the city.

← Since 1991

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Harp-lute with an antelope head, from Afzelius's collection of the 1790s 2002
Original title: Musikinstrument, luta
Gabrielsson, Bo · Public domain (CC0) · Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm · Source ↗ · Report this picture

Usifu Jalloh drumming 2008
Conor Lawless · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Source ↗ · Report this picture

Mariama 2011 2011
Nicolas Esposito · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Source ↗ · Report this picture

Boiling a palm fruit 2015
Jeremiah james vandi · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Source ↗ · Report this picture

Cultural dance in Freetown Sierra Leone 2016
John Sesay07 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Source ↗ · Report this picture

Sierra leone Nubian Lines 2016
Kasambu 'Ra House- Federation Of The South · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Source ↗ · Report this picture

Cultural Dance in Eastern Part of Sierra Leone 2017
Riboc · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Source ↗ · Report this picture

Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix (51993854517)
Terry Ballard from Merrick, New York, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Source ↗ · Report this picture

Fulani traditional drum "Tabaldeh" (Fullah Culture) 2025
ODC-SIERRA-LEONE · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons · Source ↗ · Report this picture

KoiduMarket By 2007, probably 2000s
Brian Harrington Sprier · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Source ↗ · Report this picture

Since 1991 · 1991–today

Musicanddance

11 items

Drums, horns, harps and rattles, dancers and drummers, and the bands of the city.

← Since 1991

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.