Before the slave trade · to 1561
Sande (Bondo) ɛn Poro sosayti ɛn dɛn dɛbul, nomoli ɛn minsere figa, ɛn chɔch ɛn mɔsk. Foto dɛn bɔt sosayti tin de biɛn notis, fɔ rɛspɛkt.
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.
Head (Temne or Bullom) 12th–16th century
Temne or Bullom artist(s) · Public domain (CC0) · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Seated Figure (Temne or Bullom peoples) 12th–16th century
Temne or Bullom artist(s) · Public domain (CC0) · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Seated male figure (Temne or Bullom peoples) 12th–16th century
Temne or Bullom artist(s) · Public domain (CC0) · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Head (Temne or Bullom peoples) 12th–16th century
Temne or Bullom artist(s) · Public domain (CC0) · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Female Figure (Africa, West Africa, Sierra Leone, Sherbro-style maker) 1500s
Africa, West Africa, Sierra Leone, Sherbro-style maker artist · Public domain (CC0) · Cleveland Museum of Art · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Female Figure (Africa, West Africa, Sierra Leone, Sherbro Island, unknown maker) 1500s
Africa, West Africa, Sierra Leone, Sherbro Island, unknown maker artist · Public domain (CC0) · Cleveland Museum of Art · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Bottom of clay pot, Kabala, Sierra Leone (West Africa) Taken in 1967
John Atherton · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Smiling girl, Mandingo lady, and her large clay pot, Kabala, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (491581387) 1967
John Atherton · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Top of clay pot, Kabala, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (2255787682) 1967
John Atherton · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Carved stone figure from Sierra Leone at the Africana Museum, Cuttington College, Suakoko, Liberia (West Africa) (2136295008) 1968
John Atherton · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto
Carved stone figure from Sierra Leone or Liberia at the Africana Museum, Cuttington College, Suakoko, Liberia (West Africa) (2158765449) 1968
John Atherton · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Usay i kɔmɔt ↗ · Tɛl wi bɔt dis foto