After the death of Cabinda’s Mfuka Andris Pukuta, assumedly in 1786, the precious silver kimpaba that La Rochelle’s slave traders gave to him as a gift in 1777 was displaced from Cabinda to Abomey, the capital of the Kingdom of Dahomey. The chapter explores various hypotheses explaining how the object was transferred from the Loango coast to the Bight of Benin. Identifying the presence of specific French slave traders in the ports of these two regions, the chapter argues that the tortuous trajectory of the silver sword embodies the complex connections between Cabinda, Ouidah, Porto-Novo, and Abomey during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.