| " 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 Xavière Malabouche To know more about it on the asen of the Dahomey, I invite you to read excellent work made by Black Xavière Malabouche of the gallery of Ebony in Paris. If you have more information concerning this object, its symbolism, its ritual use, its ethnos group, do not hesitate to leave us a comment while clicking over the lower button...
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