Before the slave trade · to 1561
Ston tul frɔm rɔk ol, nomoli we pipul fɛn na fam, ayɛn smɛlta, ɛn di aivri kav dɛn we Sapi atis mek fɔ Pɔtigi tredman dɛn na di 1400 ɛn 1500 dɛn.
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Figure (Africa, West Africa, Sierra Leone, Sapi-style carver) possibly early 1400s
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Figure of a Man Holding a Crocodile 15th century or earlier
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Hunting horn, Sapi-Portuguese style, Bullom or Temne peoples, Sierra Leone, Late 15th century, Ivory, metal (2922770551) late 1400s
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Spoon with figure (Temne or Bullom) ca. 1490–1530
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Lidded saltcellar (Temne or Bullom peoples) ca. 1490–1530
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Saltcellar Base (Temne or Bullom peoples) ca. 1490–1530
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Oliphant (side-blown horn) (Temne or Bullom peoples) ca. 1490–1530
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Sapi ivory horn (oliphant), c. 1490–1510
Di titul we i bin gɛt: Sierra leone, sapi, olifante, 1490-1510 ca
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Ivory pyx carved by a Sapi artist in Sierra Leone for Portuguese traders, 1490–1530 1490–1530
Di titul we i bin gɛt: Ivory Pyx with Scenes from the Passion of Christ
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Afro-Portuguese ivory horn, Sherbro, c. 1500–25 (1)
Di titul we i bin gɛt: Produzione afro-portoghese, corno in avorio, sierra leone, sherbro, 1500-25 ca. 01
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Afro-Portuguese ivory horn, Sherbro, c. 1500–25 (2)
Di titul we i bin gɛt: Produzione afro-portoghese, corno in avorio, sierra leone, sherbro, 1500-25 ca. 02
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Afro-Portuguese ivory horn, Sherbro, c. 1500–25 (3)
Di titul we i bin gɛt: Produzione afro-portoghese, corno in avorio, sierra leone, sherbro, 1500-25 ca. 03
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Figure of a Standing Male before 1540
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15th - 16th century carved ivory from West Africa (2235480834) 1970
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Fragment of a Saltcellar 16th century
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Figure: Head 16th century
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Lidded Saltcellar 15th–16th century
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Saltcellar fragment for European export, Sapi people, Sierra Leone, 16th century, ivory - Brooklyn Museum - Brooklyn, NY - DSC08493
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Archaeological excavations at Yagala Rock Shelter, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (2066504139) 1967
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Nomoli-British Museum (5) 1967
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Nomoli-British Museum (6) 1967
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Prehistoric pottery shards, Sierra Leone 1967/68
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Abu Kamara shows a West African way to carry archaeological equipment for long distances when there are no roads and often no trails (489843 1968
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Archaeological excavations at a cave high on a mountain above Balandugu, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (1956145815) 1968
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Archaeological excavations at Kamabai Rock Shelter, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (432439442) 1968
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Archaeological excavations at the Kamabai Rock Shelter prehistoric site, Sierra Leone (west Africa) 1968 (2778010545) 1968
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Archaeology crew at Yagala Rock Shelter, near Yagala, Sierra Leone (West Africa), 1968 (847589218)
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Archaeology team at Kamabai Rock Shelter, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (463218861) 1968
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Bored stones-National Museum of Sierra Leone (1) 1968
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Bored stones-Sierra Leone National Museum 1968
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Celts from archaeological excavations in Sierra Leone (west Africa) (2387863991) 1968
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Ceramic fragments from Kamabai Rock Shelter, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (2207113102) 1968
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Disused iron smelter south of Kamabai, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (2071810345) 1968
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Excavating at the Santia Rock Shelter archeological site in Sierra Leone (West Africa) (454599397) 1968
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Hills near Kamabai Rock Shelter, Sierra Leone (West Africa) during the rainy season of 1968 (2044886176) 1968
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Iron Age Protohistoric artefacts from Northeastern Sierra Leone (West Africa) (1764315079) 1968
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"Iron Age" protohistoric water pot from Old Yagala, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (1750747411) 1968
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Kamabai Rock Shelter prehistoric archaeological site, Sierra Leone (west Africa) 1968 (2778007203) 1968
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Kamabai Rock Shelter, Sierra Leone 1968
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Kamakumba Cave, Wara-Wara Bafodia Chiefdom, Sierra Leone (West Africa) 1968 (2895836865) 1968
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Kjell Zetterström at the Kamabai Rock Shelter archaeological site, Sierra Leone (West Africa) 1968 (11700122056) Taken in 1968
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Later Stone Age quartz artifacts from Sierra Leone (West Africa) (1750458439) 1968
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Limba hunters trap in a small rock shelter south of Kamabai, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (2038132409) 1968
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Limba hunters trap in rock shelter south of Kamabai, Sierra Leone (West Africa) in the 1960s (411553749) 1968
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Looking out from inside a cave above Santia Rock Shelter on the road to Bafodia, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (1956133533) 1968
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Mapping tools at Yagala Rock Shelter, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (2495875948) 1968
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Nomoli-Sierra Leone Museum (1) 1968
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Nomoli-Sierra Leone Museum (2) 1968
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Prehistoric archaeology at Kamabai Rock Shelter, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (2025012561) 1968
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Prehistoric ceramic and stone artefacts from archaeological excavations in Sierra Leone (west Africa) (2536116709) 1968
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Prehistoric dolerite flake from archaeological excavations in Sierra Leone (West Africa) (1750442305) 1968
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Prehistoric stone artefacts from Sierra Leone (West Africa) (2532076540) 1968
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Prehistoric stone artefacts from the Sierra Leone Museum, Freetown, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (1304545792) 1968
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Short children (can you find all three of them?) and very tall vegetation near Bafodia, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (486803648) 1968
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Shoveling fill after troweling, Kamabai Rock Shelter prehistoric archaeological site, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (2216881355) 1968
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Stone tools from West Africa flaked and polished dolerite celts and "laterite crayons" (lower right) from Kamabai Rock Shelter, Sierra Leone 1968
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The back part of the prehistoric site of Kamabai Rock Shelter, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (2066780793) 1968
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Traditional structures near Kamabai Taken in 1968
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Unused prehistoric miniature dolerite celt from archaeological excavations in Sierra Leone (West Africa) (1751585202) 1968
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Visitors from Czechoslovakia and Sweden at the prehistoric site of Kamabai Rock Shelter, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (2067572898) 1968
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