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Text for this website was prepared by Dr. Sandra T. Barnes, Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania. Note
about the photo captions: Any
text with quotation marks around it was written by H. U.
Hall, who spent seven months conducting research among the
Sherbro-speaking peoples of the southwestern, coastal areas
of Sierra Leone in 1936 and 1937. The spellings and names of
chiefdoms and districts used by Hall may be different today:
Some of the spellings have been updated to conform to recent
orthographic conventions; where possible, both old and new
spellings are provided. Also, some villages and towns,
identified by Hall as being under the jurisdiction of
certain chiefdoms or districts, were later placed under
different administrative jurisdictions.
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