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Amulet/Charm

A charm/amulet, or sebe/sebbeh: the Mende and Temne name for charm/amulet. It is made from the casing of a Bakelite torch, filled with mud and sealed...

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NWT709: Mende Song

Historical wax cylinder recording made by Northcote Whitridge Thomas, a British government anthropologist who conducted field research in Sierra Leone...

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