Delimiting the space of the community, it was used for the sacrifices.

One pours there chicken blood and palm oil, to nourish the
spirit of the Ancestor with an aim of protecting the community and of
maintaining the order.

Botchio has a role of sentinel. It protects a district, a family,
an individual...

Statuette of female sex very rough cut in a knotty wood
slightly termity.

With preserved a very beautiful pigmentation probalement due on the
ground at strong content bauxite in which it was to be planted.

Its aspect very termity, its color, and an adequate lighting gives
him a beautiful presence.

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Bénin

Fon

41 x 10

1.555