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Photographer: Michael Sean Nix
Taken: April 23, 2009
Caption: Hewn-Timber Cabins Information Sign
Additional Description: The Search for African Ancestors The people who lived in these houses used African words that might link them to specific ethnic groups in Africa: Archie Waiters used "lee little" to mean very small. "Lee" is similar to a WOLOF word that means small. One of the people who lived in these cabins was named Mariah Malinka. Malinke is the name of an ethnic group. To express amazement, Alex Gregg said "Great Da!" The FON people worship a god named Da. "Pinda," used by Catherine Waiters to mean peanut, is the same as the KONGO word for peanut.
Submitted: April 23, 2009, by Michael Sean Nix of Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p60495
File Size: 1.746 Megabytes

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