How we lived
Food&market
Markets, rice farms, palm oil, fishing and what was cooked at home.
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215 items · page 3 / 3Sierra Leone rice farming By 2007, probably 2000s
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Market place, Bo, Sierra Leone Lisk-Carew postcard, c. 1905–1920s
Original title: SierraLeoneP006
Lisk-Carew Brothers, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Copyright Sierra Leone: photographs: 50 years after publication. See http://www.sierra-leone.org/Laws/2011-08.pdf ( · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Source ↗ · Report this picture
This picture shows nudity. Many old pictures like this were taken by European visitors, colonial officials and missionaries, and we often cannot know whether the people in them agreed.
Preparation of palm oil, Sierra Leone Lisk-Carew postcard, c. 1905–1920s
Original title: SierraLeoneP011
Lisk-Carew Brothers, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Copyright Sierra Leone: photographs: 50 years after publication. See http://www.sierra-leone.org/Laws/2011-08.pdf ( · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Source ↗ · Report this picture
Reaping rice, Sierra Leone protectorate Lisk-Carew postcard, c. 1905–1920s
Original title: SierraLeoneP014
Lisk-Carew Brothers, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Copyright Sierra Leone: photographs: 50 years after publication. See http://www.sierra-leone.org/Laws/2011-08.pdf ( · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Source ↗ · Report this picture
Vegetable market, Protectorate (Lisk-Carew postcard) 1930
Original title: Hut, market
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Man with a pot of palm wine 1930
Original title: Kruka, vin, man
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Palm wine distiller, Sierra Leone Lisk-Carew postcard, c. 1905–1920s
Original title: SierraLeoneP005
Lisk-Carew Brothers, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Copyright Sierra Leone: photographs: 50 years after publication. See http://www.sierra-leone.org/Laws/2011-08.pdf ( · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Source ↗ · Report this picture
Freetown-Fishing shrims c. 1900
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Women's fishing net on a bent stick, Mende Collected by 1931
Original title: Fishing-net
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A fishing net being made, Mende Collected by 1931
Original title: Fishing-net
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Bottom of clay pot, Kabala, Sierra Leone (West Africa) Taken in 1967
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Top of clay pot, Kabala, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (2255787682) 1967
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"Iron Age" protohistoric water pot from Old Yagala, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (1750747411) 1968
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Palm nuts waiting to be processed near Yagala, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (1892479464) 1968
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Stone-lined pit, probably for extracting palm oil, near Yagala, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (1679217561) Photographed 1967 or 1968
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A head of guinea corn (sorghum) on its stalk Collected 1930–31
Original title: Barley, food, proy on guinean.
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A head of guinea corn (sorghum) Collected 1930–31
Original title: Korn, materialprov, corn
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Wooden mortar on a low foot, for pounding rice Collected 1930–31
Original title: Mortar
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Women's hand net on two bent canes Collected 1930–31
Original title: Net
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Old women's hand net Collected 1930–31
Original title: Net
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Fish net set in a hole in the riverbed Collected 1930–31
Original title: Net
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Women's hand net still being made Collected 1930–31
Original title: Net
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Fishing net of knotted palm-leaf fibre, 12 m long Collected 1930–31
Original title: Fishing net, net
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Bast fibre sample Collected 1930–31
Original title: Bast, materialprov, sample
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Fish trap, fish- Collected 1930–31
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Fish trap Collected 1930–31
Original title: Fish trap, fish-
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Fish trap of another kind Collected 1930–31
Original title: Fish trap, fish-
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Bottle-shaped fish trap Collected 1930–31
Original title: Fish trap, fish-
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Bottle-shaped fish basket with a neck Collected 1930–31
Original title: Fiskkorg, fish basket
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Fish basket with long string handles Collected 1930–31
Original title: Fiskkorg, fish basket
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Small fish basket Collected 1930–31
Original title: Fiskkorg, fish basket
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Fish basket with fibre handles, no neck Collected 1930–31
Original title: Fiskkorg, fish basket
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Dark fish basket without a handle Collected 1930–31
Original title: Fiskkorg, fish basket
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Hunting net, 5 m long Collected 1930–31
Original title: Hunting net, net
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Hunting net, 7.5 m long Collected 1930–31
Original title: Hunting net, net
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Women's hand net Collected 1930–31
Original title: Net, fishing net
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Hollowed log vessel used in tapping palm wine Collected 1930–31
Original title: Vessel
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Plaited fish trap, Vai Collected 1930–31
Original title: Fish trap
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Fishing net on a bent cane Collected 1930–31
Original title: Fishhole, net
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Rat trap of leaves and a bent stick Collected 1930–31
Original title: Rat trap, rat
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Boys' hand net of palm fibre Collected 1930–31
Original title: Fiskeredskap, net, fishing tool
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