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Image Reference
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Source
E. Chaudoin, Trois mois de captivité au Dahomey (Paris, 1891), p. 327
Comments
Shows two women in full regalia, with rifles. In Dahomey, these female soldiers were known as ahosi; the name Amazon was a European construction.
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