Projects and Science
Sierra Leone
West Africa
ABT
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Woman spinning cotton with a supported bottom-whorl spindle. Pre 1945.
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Postcard printed on occasion of the British Empire Exhibition 1924. At the back it reads: “A family engaged in spinning cotton – the most important native industry in Sierra Leone“.
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