Human Sacrificial Ceremony, Dahomey, 1849-50
Caption: The Human Sacrifices of the Ek-Gnee-Noo-Ah-Toh; shows crowds and onlookers, including royal court. Compare this illustration with image 088 on this website which can be seen in background. Forbes writes: The victims were held high above the heads of their bearers . . . and the king made a speech, stating that of his prisoners he gave a portion to his soldiers, as his father and grandfather had done before . . .; the description continues in detail in vol. 2 (pp. 52 ff).
Image Title
Human Sacrificial Ceremony, Dahomey, 1849-50
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SI-OB-675
Date
1849-1850
Title
Human Sacrificial Ceremony, Dahomey, 1849-50
Source
Frederick E. Forbes, Dahomey and the Dahomans: being the journals of two missions to the king of Dahomey, and residence in his capital, in . . . 1849 and 1850 (London, 1851), vol. 2, facing p. 52; color image also in Andrew H. Foote, Africa and the American Flag (New York, 1854), facing title page. (Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library)
Language
English
Item sets
Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture
Spatial Coverage
Africa--Western Bight
Reproduced In
Frederick E. Forbes, Dahomey and the Dahomans: being the journals of two missions to the king of Dahomey, and residence in his capital, in . . . 1849 and 1850 (London, 1851), vol. 2, facing p. 52; color image also in Andrew H. Foote, Africa and the American Flag (New York, 1854), facing title page.
Researchers
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
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