The platform of the Ah-toh, Dahomey, West Africa
The platform of the Ah-toh, Dahomey, West Africa, 1854. Prisoners of war in white dresses and high red caps are lashed to boats. After ceremonies before the absolute monarch of Dahomey, the prisoners are pushed into a twelve-foot pit where their heads are cut off and their bodies thrown to the mob
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