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work_s5g54ums2fapvhxif5zujfb2ji	Julia Kelly	"Dahomey!, Dahomey!": the reception of Dahomean art in France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries	2015	19	.pdf	application/pdf	9031	423	62	This essay examines the ways in which art works from Dahomey were discussed number of Dahomean sculptures, which entered the collection of the Trocadero kinds of African art works that artists predominantly looked to were mysterious in child, showing French troops entering Dahomey's capital city Abomey, while Jean Dahomean sculptures in the Trocadero museum were notably absent. African kingdom and French colony of Dahomey to represent the spirit of the whole most famous of Dahomey's art works in French collections, the iron sculpture Dahomey fell to the French in the 1890s, whose explicit presence in artists' accounts people, objects and corresponding art works by Western artists appear to have early years of the 20th century, the reasons for privileging certain African art works Dahomean sculptures: artefacts collected by a colonial administrator in 1889 and by Delafosse's accounts of the Dahomean material at the Trocadero situated 	./cache/work_s5g54ums2fapvhxif5zujfb2ji.pdf	./txt/work_s5g54ums2fapvhxif5zujfb2ji.txt