Before the slave trade · to 1561
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Dominic (centre) and me resting in a banana grove after cutting a new trail down the mountain from Old Yagala, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (1 1967
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Bored Stones from Sierra Leone (West Africa) (2422090592) 1968
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Limba hunters trap south of Kamabai, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (1694996394) 1968
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Palm nuts waiting to be processed near Yagala, Sierra Leone (West Africa) (1892479464) 1968
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Young boy learning how to make stone tools, Kamabai, Sierra Leone (West Africa) 1968 (1127757541) 1968
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Kimberlite (Koidu Kimberlite Complex, Jurassic; Yengema-Koiu area, eastern Sierra Leone, West Africa)
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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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Kimberlite (Koidu Kimberlite Complex, Jurassic; Yengema-Koidu area, Sierra Leone, West Africa) 2
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