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Image: Homme-requin Dahomey

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Description: Half-man, half-fish statue (called bochio), Fon style. Provenance : Abomey, ancient kingdom of Dahomey. This statue would represent Béhanzin, the last king of Dahomey (now Benin). His coat of arms featured a shark. To announce his intention to fight the French fleet which was stationing at Cotonou and crossed the sandbar every day, Béhanzin compared himself to the shark: “the daring shark has troubled the sandbar” ("gbo ouele fandan agbedui brou").
Title: Man-Shark
Credit: Myrabella - Own work - 14 July 2011
Author: Sossa Dede
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