'A Mahe Woman of Ampasim; An Excursion in Dahomey', 1871. [Woman from what is now Benin in West Africa]. From, 'Illustrated Travels' by Bates. [Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London] Belle Sauvage

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