A fragmentary Fon/Voodoo post, Benin, at the bottom eroded, surounded by different atattments like irons and fabrics, on top an iron sculpture with high abstract birds, collected close to Ouida, incl. stand.

The Fon say that the only people who can fully read the symbols of an asen are its maker and the donor who commissioned it. 
Lit.: Karl - Ferdinand Schaedler: "Erde und Erz, 2500 Jahre Afrikanische Kunst aus Terrakotta und Metall", Panterra Verlag, Edition Minerva, p. 193-194.

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