Fishers, salt makers and rice farmers of the coast from the Scarcies estuary and the Bullom shore past the Sierra Leone river and the mountain peninsula to Sherbro island and the Krim coast towards the Mano river.
Their stone carvers are probably among the makers of the soapstone figures (nomoli) found in the ground of the Sherbro and Kissi countries, which are not securely dated. Placed by back-projection; nothing is known of them in 1200.
Who holds it
- Title
- Village chiefs; the coast's later small kings
- Since
- Not known
- Confidence
- low
The Bullom (Sherbro) are taken to be the old coast people of Sierra Leone, pushed south by the Temne (Wikipedia: Temne people); with the Temne and Baga they were among the 'Sapes' of the Portuguese, whose carvers made the Sapi-Portuguese ivories in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Nothing is recorded for 1200.
How things stand that morning
Not known; presumably self-governing and holding more of the coast than later.
Customs
Village chiefs; fishing and salt; carving in stone and later ivory (later evidence).
Assemblies
Not recorded.
Where the sources disagree
- The nomoli figures are undated by any method we could check; do not use them to date anything to 1200.
Evidence: Later evidence; the Portuguese from 1462.
On the map: Back-projected.
Sources and studies
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.