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  • Sande society dancers, Tuiyor, Fiama Chiefdom, Kono District
  • Mural depicting Manga Sewa, Falaba, Solimana Chiefdom, Koinadugu District
  • Ruins of the 'slave fort' on Bunce Island in the Sierra Leone River
  • Ndoli jowei and elders, Moyambawo, Kori Chiefdom, Moyamba District
  • Plantain Island, site of slave barracoons associated with John Newton, author of 'Amazing Grace'
  • Members of the Firestone community, Mountain Cut, Freetown
  • Mathoma masquerade, National Dance Troupe of Sierra Leone
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Nomoli

BM:Af.1931.708.1
British Museum

A stone figure, known as nomoli in Mende, carved out of steatite, or soapstone. The age of figures like this one is relatively unknown, however ...[more]

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