Benin Fon Protection post, early 20th Century, the post with covered cloth top forming a head above the arched post raised on a later metal display base 126cm high The vendor states that the post was purchased 1978 while staying in the region, the post was in situ when the village had to make way for a road and the Voodoo priest did not want to take or move the object, the sacred object had to have a ceremony in which the vendor paid for to remove the post, the post has been n the same collection since