Monday, November 5, 2007

Potters from Dahomey (Benin)

Republique du Dahomey
Artisans
potters d'Abomey (Potters of Abomey)

This vintage postcard is unused.

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Abomey is a city in the Zou Department of Benin. Abomey is also the former capital of the ancient Kingdom of Dahomey (c. 1600–1904), which would later become a French colony, then the Republic of Dahomey (1960–1975), and is the modern-day Republic of Benin.

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