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  • La naissance dans la pensée traditionnelle fon / G. Montilus.

    • Text
    • Cotonou : [s.n.] ; 1972.
    • 1972
  • La pensée symbolique des Fõ du Dahomey : tableau de la société et étude de la littérature orale d'expression sacrée dans l'ancien royaume du Dahomey / Claude Savary.

    • Text
    • Genève : Éditions Médecine et hygiène, 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
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  • Mythes, écologie, acculturation en Haïti: essai sur la réinterpretation des mythes du Golfe de Guinée dans le vaudou haïtien sous l'influence des Fon du Bas-Dahomey, par Guérin Montilus.

    • Text
    • Zurich, 1973.
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc Micro F-1415Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Images de la femme dans les littératures orales ashanti et fon, par Suzy Dyja Ruelland.

    • Text
    • Paris, 1971.
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc Micro F-1412Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Dans la brousse africaine; ou, Dahomey-Borghou.

    • Text
    • Paris, Nouvelle Édition [1946]
    • 1946
    • 2 Items
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    Text *Z-3090Offsite
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    Text Sc 916.68-P (Pedrals, D. Dans la brousse africaine)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Se et gbe : dynamique de l'existence chez les Fon / Basile Toussaint Kossou ; avant-propos du professeur Louis-Vincent Thomas.

    • Text
    • Paris : La Pensée universelle, c1983.
    • 1983
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 85-80Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The memory subsystem of the Dahomey kingdom [microform] / by James C. Steele.

    • Text
    • 1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc Micro F-10739Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Béhanzin, la résistance dahoméenne, ses antécédents historiques / Jean Coradin.

    • Text
    • Port-au-Prince : Impr. des Antilles, [1981]
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 87-2086Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • [Oxmantown collection of West African art] [realia].

    • Artifact
    • 1965?-1970.
    • 1965-1970
    • 1 Resource

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  • [The Harold and Florence Rome collection of African art] [realia].

    • Artifact
    • 1937?-1988?
    • 1937-1988
  • Doguicimi. Préface de Georges Hardy.

    • Text
    • Paris, Larose [1938]
    • 1938
    • 2 Items
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    Text NKV (Hazoumé, P. Doguicimi)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • An outline of Dahomean religious belief, by Melville J. Herskovits and Frances S. Herskovits.

    • Text
    • Menasha, Wis., The American Anthropological Association [1933]
    • 1933
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc 299.64-H (Herskovits, M. Outline of Dahomean religious belief)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Dahomey, an ancient West African kingdom [by] Melville J. Herskovits.

    • Text
    • New York City, J. J. Augustin, 1938.
    • 1938
    • 4 Items
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    Text Sc 572.966-H (Herskovits, M. Dahomey) v. 1Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Abomey-la-mystique. Préface de Pierre Mills.

    • Text
    • Paris, Albert [1936].
    • 1936
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc 572.966-P (Prévaudeau, M. Abomey-la-mystique)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The Fon of Dahomey; a history and ethnography of the Old Kingdom, by W. J. Argyle.

    • Text
    • Oxford, Clarendon Press, [c1966]
    • 1966
    • 2 Items
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    Text Sc 572.966-A (Argyle, W. Fon of Dahomey)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Au pays des Fons : us et coutumes du Dahomey / Maximilien Quénum.

    • Text
    • Paris : Larose, 1938.
    • 1938
    • 2 Items
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  • Promenades au Dahomey. Lucien Heudebert.

    • Text
    • Paris, Dujarric et cie, 1902.
    • 1902
    • 2 Items
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    Text BML (Heudebert, L. Promenades au Dahomey)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Terre de mort : Soudan & Dahomey / P. Vigne d'Octon.

    • Text
    • Paris : Lemerre, 1892.
    • 1892
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc 916.68-V (Vigné d'Octon, P. Terre de mort)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • La France au Dahomey / Alexandre L. D'Albéca.

    • Text
    • Paris : Hachette et cie, 1895.
    • 1895
    • 3 Items

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    Text BML+ (Albéca, A. L. d'. France au Dahomey)Offsite
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    Text BML+ (Albéca, A. L. d'. France au Dahomey)Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • La Côte des Esclaves et le Dahomey : sept ans en Afrique Occidentale / par L'Abbé Pierre Bouche.

    • Text
    • Paris : Librairie Plon, 1885.
    • 1885
    • 3 Items
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    Text BML (Bouche, P. B. Côte des esclaves et le Dahomey)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Tanguiéta; une poste de brousse au Dahomey.

    • Text
    • [Lille, Hélio N. E. A., 1944?]
    • 1944
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc 916.68-C (Coyssi, A. Tanguiéta)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Guerrières et guerriers du Dahomey au Jardin zoologique d'acclimatation de Paris, février, 1891.

    • Text
    • [Paris, Enventeà la Librairie du Jardin zoologique d'acclimatation, 1891]
    • 1891
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc 916.68-F (Fulbert-Dumonteil. Guerrières et guerriers du Dahomey)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Dahomey and the Dahomans : being the journals of two missions to the king of Dahomey, and residence at his capital, in the year 1849 and 1850 / by Frederick E. Forbes ... ; in two volumes ; vol. I[-II]

    • Text
    • London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851.
    • 1851
    • 4 Items

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    Text Sc Rare 916.68 F (Forbes, F.E. Dahomey and the Dahomans) v.1Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives
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    Text Sc Rare 916.68 F (Forbes, F.E. Dahomey and the Dahomans) v.2Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives
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  • A mission to Gelele, king of Dahome : with notices of the so-called "Amazons," the grand customs, the yearly customs, the human sacrifices, the present state of the slave trade, and the Negro's place in nature / by Richard F. Burton ; in two volumes ; vol. I[-II].

    • Text
    • London : Tinsley Brothers, 18, Catherine Street, Strand, 1864.
    • 1864
    • 2 Items
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    Text Sc 916.68-B (Burton, R. Mission to Gelele. 1864) v. 1Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text Sc 916.68-B (Burton, R. Mission to Gelele. 1864) v. 2Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Un apôtre d'aujourd'hui, le Révérend Père Aupiais, provincial des Missions africaines de Lyon.

    • Text
    • Paris, Larose, 1949.
    • 1949
    • 2 Items
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    Text C-12 8566Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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    Text Sc B-Aupiais (Hardy, G. Un apôtre d'aujourd'hui)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • La littérature populaire à la Côte des Esclaves [microform] : contes, proverbes, devinettes.

    • Text
    • Paris : Institut d'ethnologie, 1927.
    • 1927
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc Micro F-429Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • A Rada community in Trinidad / Andrew Carr.

    • Text
    • [Trinidad, W.I. : Paria Pub. Co. Ltd., 1989]
    • 1989-1955
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc F 93-322Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Los ararás en Cuba : Florentina, la princesa dahomeyana / Guillermo Andreu Alonso.

    • Text
    • La Habana : Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 1992.
    • 1992
    • 2 Items
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    Text JAX B-14180Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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    Text Sc D 00-738Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Routes des esclaves au Bénin (ex-Dahomey) dans une approche régionale / Fakambi Justin.

    • Text
    • Ouidah (Bénin) : s.n., [199-?]
    • 1990-1993
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc C 96-28Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Du Dahomé au Sahara; la nature et l'homme.

    • Text
    • Paris, A. Colin et cie, 1899.
    • 1899
    • 1 Item
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    Text BML (Toutee, G. J. Du Dahome au Sahara. 1899)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Du Dahomé au Sahara; la nature et l'homme.

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    • Paris, A. Colin et cie, 1907.
    • 1907
    • 1 Item
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    Text BML (Toutee, G. J. Du Dahome au Sahara. 1907)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Du Dahomé an Sahara: la nature et l'homme ...

    • Text
    • Paris, A. Colin et cie. 1914.
    • 1914
    • 1 Item
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    Text BMB (Toutee, G. J. Du Dahome an Sahara)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Asen : iron altars from Ouidah, Republic of Benin.

    • Text
    • Washington, D.C. : National Museum of African Art, [1993]
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 96-1387Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Conception de vie chez les "Fon" / par Germain de Souza.

    • Text
    • Cotonou : Editions du Bénin, [197-?]
    • 1970-1979
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 98-592Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • "Why goats smell bad" and other stories from Benin / translated and retold by Raouf Mama ; with illustrations by Imna Arroyo.

    • Text
    • North Haven, Conn. : Linnet Books, 1998.
    • 1998
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 98-715Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Mission catholique et culte vodoun : l'œuvre de Francis Aupiais (1877-1945), missionaire et ethnographe : Dahomey 1930 / Martine Balard.

    • Text
    • Perpignan [France] : Presses Universitaires de Perpignan, [1998]
    • 1998
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 99-32Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • La tradición ewé-fon en Cuba : contribución al estudio de la tradición ewé-fon (arará) en los pueblos de Jovellanos, Perico y Agramonte, Cuba / Hippolyte Brice Sogbossi.

    • Text
    • Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba : Fundación Fernando Ortiz, c1998.
    • 1998
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 99-2451Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The Arara in Cuba : Florentina, a princess from Dahomey / Guillermo Andreu Alonso.

    • Text
    • La Habana : Editorial José Martí, c1997.
    • 1997
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 99-2880Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Vodun vortex : accumulative arts, histories, and religious consciousnesses along coastal Bénin / by Dana Lynn Rush.

    • Text
    • c1997.
    • 1999-1997
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 00-1589Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Wall sculptures of Abomey / Francesca Piqué and Leslie H. Rainer ; with contributions by Jérôme C. Alladaye... [et al.].

    • Text
    • London : Thames & Hudson, 1999.
    • 1999
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc F 00-285Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Au pays des Fons : us et coutumes du Dahomey / Maximilien Quénum.

    • Text
    • Paris : Maisonneuve et Larose, 1999.
    • 1999-1936
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 00-1495Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Dahomey as it is [microform] : being a narrative of eight months' residence in that country, with a full account of the notorious annual customs, and the social and religious institutions of the Ffons : also an appendix on Ashantee, and a glossary of Dahoman words and titles / by J.A. Skertchly ; with illustrations, from sketches by the author.

    • Text
    • London : Chapman and Hall, 1874.
    • 1900-1983
    • 1 Item
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    Text *Z-1920 no. 1874Offsite
  • La littérature populaire à la Côte des Esclaves, contes, proverbes, devinettes.

    • Text
    • Paris, Institut d'ethnologie, 1927.
    • 1927
    • 2 Items
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    Text Sc F 01-16Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text QOA (Paris. Université. Institut d'ethnologie. Travaux et mémoires) no. 4 (1927)Offsite
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  • Le pouvoir et l'interdit : royauté et religion en Afrique noire. Essais d'ethnologie comparative / Alfred Adler.

    • Text
    • Paris : Albin Michel, 2000.
    • 2000
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 01-433Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Eveil et conquête : la mémoire est rédemptrice de peuple / X Kadha Lumumba ; mise en page, Francine Tétreault.

    • Text
    • [S.l.] : Editions Nèg Bossals, [1995?]
    • 1995
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 02-2170Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Parlons fon : langue et culture du Bénin / Dominique Fadaïro.

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    • Paris : L'Harmattan, c2001.
    • 2001
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 02-2234Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Do Massé : contes fons du Bénin / Christine Adjahi Gnimagnon ; collaborateurs Ayékobinon Yapetchou pour les récits, Robert Tohomé pour les illustrations.

    • Text
    • Paris : L'Harmattan, 2002.
    • 2002
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 03-914Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Le nom en f̳ongbe : structure originelle de composition / présenté par David Xwét̳osi Batt̳o.

    • Text
    • T̳enji, République du Bénin : Con[g]régation des séminaires et des institutions d'enseignement du grand séminaire Saint Gall de Ouidah, [1989]
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc F 03-202Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Deutsch-beninische Märchenforschung am Beispiel von Märchen in der Fon-Sprache mit phonetischer Transkription, Studie und Darstellung der Hauptfiguren und Themenverleich / Mensah Wekenon Tokponto.

    • Text
    • Frankfurt : Lang, 2003.
    • 2003
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 04-131Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Geest en kracht : Vodun uit west-Afrika.

    • Text
    • Berg an Dal [Netherlands] : Afrika Museum, c1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc F 98-411Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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