The colony · 1787–1895
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Buk, leta ɛn pepa: di fɔs gɔspɛl we dɛn print na Bulɔm ɛn Tɛmnɛ, stori dɛn we Tɛmnɛ ol pipul tɔk ɛn we dɛn rayt dɔŋ na 1861, leta na Arabik rayt, ɛn di pepa dɛn fɔ ɔdinari layf.
Bɔku pan dɛn ya na kɔlonial ɔfisa, mishɔnari ɛn fɔrina dɛn mek dɛn. Di nem ɛn di tɔk we de wit dɛn kɔmɔt na di kɔlɛkshɔn dɛn, ɛn sɔm kin gɛt di aydia ɛn wɔd dɛn fɔ da tɛm de. Wi sho dɛn as istri, nɔto se wi gri wit dɛn. Na kɔmpyuta put di det, di tɛm ɛn di kayn fɔ ɛni foto, so sɔm go rɔng. If yu ɔ yu fambul de insay wan foto, if na yu gɛt di rayt fɔ wan, if sɔntin rɔng, ɔ if yu tink se wan foto nɔ fɔ de ya, prɛs “Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto” ɔnda am: di tin we yu rayt go rich wi ɛditɔ dɛn wit di foto, ɛn dɛn kin pul am wantɛm. Yu kin rayt to hello@dt-ets.com.
Temne traditions of Bey Farma and Korombo, page 2 (Temne) 1861
Told aloud at Port Loko around 1849 by one of the oldest Temne men there, and printed by C. F. Schlenker in 1861: the war captains Bey Farma and Korombo, in the Temne the elder spoke.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Temne traditions of Bey Farma and Korombo, page 3 (English) 1861
Told aloud at Port Loko around 1849 by one of the oldest Temne men there, and printed by C. F. Schlenker in 1861: the war captains Bey Farma and Korombo, in Schlenker's English beside the Temne.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Temne traditions of Bey Farma and Korombo, page 4 (Temne) 1861
Told aloud at Port Loko around 1849 by one of the oldest Temne men there, and printed by C. F. Schlenker in 1861: the war captains Bey Farma and Korombo, in the Temne the elder spoke.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Temne traditions of Bey Farma and Korombo, page 5 (English) 1861
Told aloud at Port Loko around 1849 by one of the oldest Temne men there, and printed by C. F. Schlenker in 1861: the war captains Bey Farma and Korombo, in Schlenker's English beside the Temne.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Temne traditions of Bey Farma and Korombo, page 6 (Temne) 1861
Told aloud at Port Loko around 1849 by one of the oldest Temne men there, and printed by C. F. Schlenker in 1861: the war captains Bey Farma and Korombo, in the Temne the elder spoke.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Temne traditions of Bey Farma and Korombo, page 7 (English) 1861
Told aloud at Port Loko around 1849 by one of the oldest Temne men there, and printed by C. F. Schlenker in 1861: the war captains Bey Farma and Korombo, in Schlenker's English beside the Temne.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Temne traditions of Bey Farma and Korombo, page 8 (Temne) 1861
Told aloud at Port Loko around 1849 by one of the oldest Temne men there, and printed by C. F. Schlenker in 1861: the war captains Bey Farma and Korombo, in the Temne the elder spoke.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Temne traditions of Bey Farma and Korombo, page 9 (English) 1861
Told aloud at Port Loko around 1849 by one of the oldest Temne men there, and printed by C. F. Schlenker in 1861: the war captains Bey Farma and Korombo, in Schlenker's English beside the Temne.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Temne traditions of Bey Farma and Korombo, page 10 (Temne) 1861
Told aloud at Port Loko around 1849 by one of the oldest Temne men there, and printed by C. F. Schlenker in 1861: the war captains Bey Farma and Korombo, in the Temne the elder spoke.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Temne traditions of Bey Farma and Korombo, page 11 (English) 1861
Told aloud at Port Loko around 1849 by one of the oldest Temne men there, and printed by C. F. Schlenker in 1861: the war captains Bey Farma and Korombo, in Schlenker's English beside the Temne.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Temne traditions of Bey Farma and Korombo, page 12 (Temne) 1861
Told aloud at Port Loko around 1849 by one of the oldest Temne men there, and printed by C. F. Schlenker in 1861: the war captains Bey Farma and Korombo, in the Temne the elder spoke.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Temne traditions of Bey Farma and Korombo, page 13 (English) 1861
Told aloud at Port Loko around 1849 by one of the oldest Temne men there, and printed by C. F. Schlenker in 1861: the war captains Bey Farma and Korombo, in Schlenker's English beside the Temne.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Temne proverbs, page 98 1861
Temne proverbs with their meanings, heard at Port Loko and printed by C. F. Schlenker in 1861: "Swallow, it is bitter, it is dry": take a hard thing patiently.
Temne speakers of Port Loko; C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Temne proverbs, page 99 1861
Temne proverbs with their meanings, heard at Port Loko and printed by C. F. Schlenker in 1861: "Swallow, it is bitter, it is dry": take a hard thing patiently.
Temne speakers of Port Loko; C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Temne proverbs, page 100 1861
Temne proverbs with their meanings, heard at Port Loko and printed by C. F. Schlenker in 1861: "Swallow, it is bitter, it is dry": take a hard thing patiently.
Temne speakers of Port Loko; C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Temne proverbs, page 101 1861
Temne proverbs with their meanings, heard at Port Loko and printed by C. F. Schlenker in 1861: "Swallow, it is bitter, it is dry": take a hard thing patiently.
Temne speakers of Port Loko; C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Dis foto kin mek yu fil bad.
Temne traditions of the creation, page 12 (Temne) 1861
Read with care. This tradition was told at Port Loko around 1849, in a colony built where the slave trade had been, and written down by a European missionary. In one passage it says God made white people superior to Black people. That is false, and it was never the whole of Temne belief: Schlenker himself wrote that other traditions had been "mixed up" with the Temne ones. We show it because it records how an elder, living under European power on the coast, was made to explain that power.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Dis foto kin mek yu fil bad.
Temne traditions of the creation, page 13 (English) 1861
Read with care. This tradition was told at Port Loko around 1849, in a colony built where the slave trade had been, and written down by a European missionary. In one passage it says God made white people superior to Black people. That is false, and it was never the whole of Temne belief: Schlenker himself wrote that other traditions had been "mixed up" with the Temne ones. We show it because it records how an elder, living under European power on the coast, was made to explain that power.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Dis foto kin mek yu fil bad.
Temne traditions of the creation, page 14 (Temne) 1861
Read with care. This tradition was told at Port Loko around 1849, in a colony built where the slave trade had been, and written down by a European missionary. In one passage it says God made white people superior to Black people. That is false, and it was never the whole of Temne belief: Schlenker himself wrote that other traditions had been "mixed up" with the Temne ones. We show it because it records how an elder, living under European power on the coast, was made to explain that power.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Dis foto kin mek yu fil bad.
Temne traditions of the creation, page 15 (English) 1861
Read with care. This tradition was told at Port Loko around 1849, in a colony built where the slave trade had been, and written down by a European missionary. In one passage it says God made white people superior to Black people. That is false, and it was never the whole of Temne belief: Schlenker himself wrote that other traditions had been "mixed up" with the Temne ones. We show it because it records how an elder, living under European power on the coast, was made to explain that power.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Dis foto kin mek yu fil bad.
Temne traditions of the creation, page 16 (Temne) 1861
Read with care. This tradition was told at Port Loko around 1849, in a colony built where the slave trade had been, and written down by a European missionary. In one passage it says God made white people superior to Black people. That is false, and it was never the whole of Temne belief: Schlenker himself wrote that other traditions had been "mixed up" with the Temne ones. We show it because it records how an elder, living under European power on the coast, was made to explain that power.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Dis foto kin mek yu fil bad.
Temne traditions of the creation, page 17 (English) 1861
Read with care. This tradition was told at Port Loko around 1849, in a colony built where the slave trade had been, and written down by a European missionary. In one passage it says God made white people superior to Black people. That is false, and it was never the whole of Temne belief: Schlenker himself wrote that other traditions had been "mixed up" with the Temne ones. We show it because it records how an elder, living under European power on the coast, was made to explain that power.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Dis foto kin mek yu fil bad.
Temne traditions of the creation, page 18 (Temne) 1861
Read with care. This tradition was told at Port Loko around 1849, in a colony built where the slave trade had been, and written down by a European missionary. In one passage it says God made white people superior to Black people. That is false, and it was never the whole of Temne belief: Schlenker himself wrote that other traditions had been "mixed up" with the Temne ones. We show it because it records how an elder, living under European power on the coast, was made to explain that power.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Dis foto kin mek yu fil bad.
Temne traditions of the creation, page 19 (English) 1861
Read with care. This tradition was told at Port Loko around 1849, in a colony built where the slave trade had been, and written down by a European missionary. In one passage it says God made white people superior to Black people. That is false, and it was never the whole of Temne belief: Schlenker himself wrote that other traditions had been "mixed up" with the Temne ones. We show it because it records how an elder, living under European power on the coast, was made to explain that power.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Dis foto kin mek yu fil bad.
Temne traditions of the creation, page 20 (Temne) 1861
Read with care. This tradition was told at Port Loko around 1849, in a colony built where the slave trade had been, and written down by a European missionary. In one passage it says God made white people superior to Black people. That is false, and it was never the whole of Temne belief: Schlenker himself wrote that other traditions had been "mixed up" with the Temne ones. We show it because it records how an elder, living under European power on the coast, was made to explain that power.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Dis foto kin mek yu fil bad.
Temne traditions of the creation, page 21 (English) 1861
Read with care. This tradition was told at Port Loko around 1849, in a colony built where the slave trade had been, and written down by a European missionary. In one passage it says God made white people superior to Black people. That is false, and it was never the whole of Temne belief: Schlenker himself wrote that other traditions had been "mixed up" with the Temne ones. We show it because it records how an elder, living under European power on the coast, was made to explain that power.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Dis foto kin mek yu fil bad.
Temne traditions of the creation, page 22 (Temne) 1861
Read with care. This tradition was told at Port Loko around 1849, in a colony built where the slave trade had been, and written down by a European missionary. In one passage it says God made white people superior to Black people. That is false, and it was never the whole of Temne belief: Schlenker himself wrote that other traditions had been "mixed up" with the Temne ones. We show it because it records how an elder, living under European power on the coast, was made to explain that power.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Dis foto kin mek yu fil bad.
Temne traditions of the creation, page 23 (English) 1861
Read with care. This tradition was told at Port Loko around 1849, in a colony built where the slave trade had been, and written down by a European missionary. In one passage it says God made white people superior to Black people. That is false, and it was never the whole of Temne belief: Schlenker himself wrote that other traditions had been "mixed up" with the Temne ones. We show it because it records how an elder, living under European power on the coast, was made to explain that power.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Dis foto kin mek yu fil bad.
Temne traditions of the creation, page 24 (Temne) 1861
Read with care. This tradition was told at Port Loko around 1849, in a colony built where the slave trade had been, and written down by a European missionary. In one passage it says God made white people superior to Black people. That is false, and it was never the whole of Temne belief: Schlenker himself wrote that other traditions had been "mixed up" with the Temne ones. We show it because it records how an elder, living under European power on the coast, was made to explain that power.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Dis foto kin mek yu fil bad.
Temne traditions of the creation, page 25 (English) 1861
Read with care. This tradition was told at Port Loko around 1849, in a colony built where the slave trade had been, and written down by a European missionary. In one passage it says God made white people superior to Black people. That is false, and it was never the whole of Temne belief: Schlenker himself wrote that other traditions had been "mixed up" with the Temne ones. We show it because it records how an elder, living under European power on the coast, was made to explain that power.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Dis foto kin mek yu fil bad.
Temne traditions of the creation, page 26 (Temne) 1861
Read with care. This tradition was told at Port Loko around 1849, in a colony built where the slave trade had been, and written down by a European missionary. In one passage it says God made white people superior to Black people. That is false, and it was never the whole of Temne belief: Schlenker himself wrote that other traditions had been "mixed up" with the Temne ones. We show it because it records how an elder, living under European power on the coast, was made to explain that power.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Dis foto kin mek yu fil bad.
Temne traditions of the creation, page 27 (English) 1861
Read with care. This tradition was told at Port Loko around 1849, in a colony built where the slave trade had been, and written down by a European missionary. In one passage it says God made white people superior to Black people. That is false, and it was never the whole of Temne belief: Schlenker himself wrote that other traditions had been "mixed up" with the Temne ones. We show it because it records how an elder, living under European power on the coast, was made to explain that power.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Dis foto kin mek yu fil bad.
Temne traditions of the creation, page 28 (Temne) 1861
Read with care. This tradition was told at Port Loko around 1849, in a colony built where the slave trade had been, and written down by a European missionary. In one passage it says God made white people superior to Black people. That is false, and it was never the whole of Temne belief: Schlenker himself wrote that other traditions had been "mixed up" with the Temne ones. We show it because it records how an elder, living under European power on the coast, was made to explain that power.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Dis foto kin mek yu fil bad.
Temne traditions of the creation, page 29 (English) 1861
Read with care. This tradition was told at Port Loko around 1849, in a colony built where the slave trade had been, and written down by a European missionary. In one passage it says God made white people superior to Black people. That is false, and it was never the whole of Temne belief: Schlenker himself wrote that other traditions had been "mixed up" with the Temne ones. We show it because it records how an elder, living under European power on the coast, was made to explain that power.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Dis foto kin mek yu fil bad.
Temne traditions of the creation, page 30 (Temne) 1861
Read with care. This tradition was told at Port Loko around 1849, in a colony built where the slave trade had been, and written down by a European missionary. In one passage it says God made white people superior to Black people. That is false, and it was never the whole of Temne belief: Schlenker himself wrote that other traditions had been "mixed up" with the Temne ones. We show it because it records how an elder, living under European power on the coast, was made to explain that power.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Dis foto kin mek yu fil bad.
Temne traditions of the creation, page 31 (English) 1861
Read with care. This tradition was told at Port Loko around 1849, in a colony built where the slave trade had been, and written down by a European missionary. In one passage it says God made white people superior to Black people. That is false, and it was never the whole of Temne belief: Schlenker himself wrote that other traditions had been "mixed up" with the Temne ones. We show it because it records how an elder, living under European power on the coast, was made to explain that power.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Dis foto kin mek yu fil bad.
Temne traditions of the creation, page 32 (Temne) 1861
Read with care. This tradition was told at Port Loko around 1849, in a colony built where the slave trade had been, and written down by a European missionary. In one passage it says God made white people superior to Black people. That is false, and it was never the whole of Temne belief: Schlenker himself wrote that other traditions had been "mixed up" with the Temne ones. We show it because it records how an elder, living under European power on the coast, was made to explain that power.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Dis foto kin mek yu fil bad.
Temne traditions of the creation, page 33 (English) 1861
Read with care. This tradition was told at Port Loko around 1849, in a colony built where the slave trade had been, and written down by a European missionary. In one passage it says God made white people superior to Black people. That is false, and it was never the whole of Temne belief: Schlenker himself wrote that other traditions had been "mixed up" with the Temne ones. We show it because it records how an elder, living under European power on the coast, was made to explain that power.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Dis foto kin mek yu fil bad.
Temne traditions of the creation, page 34 (Temne) 1861
Read with care. This tradition was told at Port Loko around 1849, in a colony built where the slave trade had been, and written down by a European missionary. In one passage it says God made white people superior to Black people. That is false, and it was never the whole of Temne belief: Schlenker himself wrote that other traditions had been "mixed up" with the Temne ones. We show it because it records how an elder, living under European power on the coast, was made to explain that power.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Dis foto kin mek yu fil bad.
Temne traditions of the creation, page 35 (English) 1861
Read with care. This tradition was told at Port Loko around 1849, in a colony built where the slave trade had been, and written down by a European missionary. In one passage it says God made white people superior to Black people. That is false, and it was never the whole of Temne belief: Schlenker himself wrote that other traditions had been "mixed up" with the Temne ones. We show it because it records how an elder, living under European power on the coast, was made to explain that power.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Temne traditions of life after death, page 34 (Temne) 1861
Told aloud at Port Loko around 1849 and printed by C. F. Schlenker in 1861: what the Temne said happens to a person after death, and the man who returned from Hades with a message about debts.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Temne traditions of life after death, page 35 (English) 1861
Told aloud at Port Loko around 1849 and printed by C. F. Schlenker in 1861: what the Temne said happens to a person after death, and the man who returned from Hades with a message about debts.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Temne traditions of life after death, page 36 (Temne) 1861
Told aloud at Port Loko around 1849 and printed by C. F. Schlenker in 1861: what the Temne said happens to a person after death, and the man who returned from Hades with a message about debts.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Temne traditions of life after death, page 37 (English) 1861
Told aloud at Port Loko around 1849 and printed by C. F. Schlenker in 1861: what the Temne said happens to a person after death, and the man who returned from Hades with a message about debts.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Temne traditions of life after death, page 38 (Temne) 1861
Told aloud at Port Loko around 1849 and printed by C. F. Schlenker in 1861: what the Temne said happens to a person after death, and the man who returned from Hades with a message about debts.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Temne traditions of life after death, page 39 (English) 1861
Told aloud at Port Loko around 1849 and printed by C. F. Schlenker in 1861: what the Temne said happens to a person after death, and the man who returned from Hades with a message about debts.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Temne traditions of life after death, page 40 (Temne) 1861
Told aloud at Port Loko around 1849 and printed by C. F. Schlenker in 1861: what the Temne said happens to a person after death, and the man who returned from Hades with a message about debts.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Temne traditions of life after death, page 41 (English) 1861
Told aloud at Port Loko around 1849 and printed by C. F. Schlenker in 1861: what the Temne said happens to a person after death, and the man who returned from Hades with a message about debts.
An elder of Port Loko (told c. 1849); C. F. Schlenker (printed 1861) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Book hoa Matthew: the Gospel of Matthew in Bullom and English 1816
One of the first books printed in a Sierra Leonean language: Bullom (Sherbro), spoken on the coast from the Bullom shore to Sherbro, set beside English by the missionary Gustavus Nylander, London, 1816.
Gustavus Reinhold Nylander (translator) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
The Gospel of Luke in Mende, title page 1871
Printed by the Mende Mission in 1871: among the first books in Mende. Someone has written "Sierra Leone" in ink at the top.
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How Mende was first spelled in print: a key to the letters 1871
"Explanation of characters used in writing Mende": the letters the Mende Mission added to the English alphabet for sounds English doesn't have, such as ŋ ("ng" in "sing"), from its 1871 Gospel of Luke.
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A Collection of Temne Traditions, Fables and Proverbs: the title page 1861
The book that carried an elder of Port Loko's stories into print: told aloud around 1849, printed in Temne and English by C. F. Schlenker for the Church Missionary Society, London, 1861.
Schlenker, Christian Friedrich · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto