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" The asen is a portable altar in metal ( iron, either in brass or silver for the richest), gone up on a stalk which gets it all wrong in ground there where holds the ceremony."
To know more about it on the asen of the Dahomey, I invite you to read excellent work made by Xavière Malabouche of the gallery Noir d'Ivoire in Paris.
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