" The asen is a portable altar in metal (wrought iron, either in brass or money for the richest), gone up on a stalk which gets it all wrong in ground there where holds the ceremony." Sources Xavi�re Malabouche

To know more about it on the asen of the Dahomey, I invite you to read excellent work made by Black Xavi�re Malabouche of the gallery of Ebony in Paris.

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B�nin

Fon

100 x 19

1.200