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Article: Palace Sculptures Of Aboney: History Told on Walls. (books).
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- September 22, 2001
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PALACE SCULPTURES OF ABOMEY History Told on Walls
Francesca Pique and Leslie H. Rainer, with contributions by Jerome C. Alladaye, Rachida de Souza-Ayari, and Suzanne Preston Blier
Conservation and Cultural Heritage series 3. The Getty Conservation Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1999. 116 pp., 18 b/w & 136 color illustrations, 4 maps. $24.95 paper.
In the early seventeenth century, Fon peoples (of the contemporary Republic of Benin) established a society that would be governed by a dynasty of rulers who created and expanded the Dahomey kingdom, building an extraordinary complex of palaces in the capital, Abomey, that became the heart of ...