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The Fon are one of the largest groups in southern Benin, associated with the origin and expansion of the seventeenth to nineteenth century kingdom of Dahomey. Though fundamentally a patrilineal society, matrilineal kin ties are strong. The Fon are primarily agriculturalists, though increasingly involved in commerce and government, and rural settlement in family compounds is, for wealthy elites, shifting to separate urban housing. Traditional and tourist arts include sculpted figurines and appliqued cloth.

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