We
were most affably greeted and given similar chairs, presented with a ram,
and given beer. The Fon is wearing a blue denim tunic over a heavily
embroidered Bali-type gown. Two ivory horns were sounded by two women -
one called Esther, a princess, and one wearing a chaplet of white beads,
evidently a Fon's wife. Yet another - also with a white bead chaplet - is
serving him wine from a calabash with a raffia-palm leaf stopper.