File:Homme-requin Dahomey.jpg
Summary
Half-man, half-fish statue (called bochio), Fon style. Provenance : Abomey, ancient kingdom of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomey" class="extiw" title="en:Dahomey">Dahomey</a>.
This statue would represent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9hanzin" class="extiw" title="en:Béhanzin">Béhanzin</a>, 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").
Licensing
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current | 00:57, 4 January 2017 | 2,182 × 3,285 (3.64 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | Half-man, half-fish statue (called bochio), Fon style. Provenance : Abomey, ancient kingdom of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomey" class="extiw" title="en:Dahomey">Dahomey</a>.<br>This statue would represent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9hanzin" class="extiw" title="en:Béhanzin">Béhanzin</a>, 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” ("<i>gbo ouele fandan agbedui brou</i>"). |
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