The Mino were the all-women elite military corps of the Kingdom of Dahomey, peaking at 6,000 sworn warriors under King Ghezo in the 1840s. Their visual language was disciplined and utilitarian — indigo tunics, brass cartridge belts, and shaven heads against the red laterite walls of Abomey.

This design system channels that severity: high-contrast indigo-on-clay, brass accents as functional detail rather than ornament, and the hard horizontal banding of military uniform stripes. It reads like archival war photography — dark, sharp, and unromanticised.