Northwestern (Vai, Mandingo, Lorma, Gbandi, Kissi)

26 DAY, ZORZOR

1963 NATIONAL UNIFICATION COUNCIL, VOINJAMA, WESTERN PROVINCE. The Western Province became Lofa County in 1964.

CAPE MOUNT'S WORLD FAMOUS LAKE PISO

Devil Dancers

ENTRANCE TO PORO GROUNDS, LOFA

ZORZOR MARKET GOODS ON DISPLAY

HOLY CROSS MISSSION (EPISCOPAL) BOLAHUN on the Sierra Leone Border. People from this very remote area sound more Sierra Leonean than Liberian.

KORANIC CLASS, LOFA

LOFA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL (RICE) COOPERATIVE, 1970s Breadbasket of the nation, Lofa consistently won the annual OPERATION PRODUCTION prize for rice growth under the Tubman Administration, and the RALLY TIME agricultural production prize under President Tolbert.

MAKING COUNTRY CLOTH

MANDINGO TRADERS

MENDE CEREMONIAL MASK

PORO INITIATES

PORTUGUESE MAP SHOWING PROFILE OF "CABO MONTE." Source: HERITAGE LIBERIA/Sylomun Weah photo

PRESIDENT TUBMAN ARRIVING IN TOWN

ROBERTSPORT

ROBERTSPORT captured by Italian visitors. Michele Varaschini Family photo via C. Alake Williams

ROBERTSPORT MANSION

ROBERTSPORT ROAD JUNCTION

SANDE CEREMONY, LOFA

SANDE GATHERING, LOFA

SANDE GRADUATION CEREMONY

SANDE GRADUATION CEREMONY 2

SANDE GRADUATION CEREMONY 3

SANDE INITIATES

SUSPENSION BRIDGE

Vai town; the caption with this photograph is not readable anymore. It starts with 'Vai' then 'Century, from H.H.' and ends with '1906: page 147'

The Dei King and his family. 1892

TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE

TRADITIONAL WESTERN SUDAN STYLE

TRADITIONAL WESTERN SUDAN STYLE 2

TUBMAN CENTER FOR AFRICAN CULTURE, ROBERTSPORT

TUBMANBURG, BOMI COUNTY MOSQUE

TUBMANBURG, SEAT OF BOMI COUNTY

very rare image-'Hidden in the low light of the forest is the entrance to the Porohwoods. (very rare image.)' — in Liberia.

VICTORIA E. JELLEMOH GRIMES

VILLAGE HOUSES

VILLAGE HOUSES 2

VOINJAMA

YOUNG MEN WEAVE CLOTH ON A LOOM

ZORZOR MARKET

ZORZOR MARKET 2