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Ancestral Shrine (Nzo a Bakulu) for a Yombe Chief at Burial Site (Case-fétiche au Congo)
Hector Deleval Belgian
Not on view
In 1908 Hector Deleval photographed several of the distinctive thatched open-front structures that served as ancestral shrines dedicated to chiefs of the Mayombe region in an area bordering the Lubuzi River, a tributary of the Chiloango River.
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