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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Lega Ivory Standing Female Figure, 1850 CE - 1920 CE

Lega Ivory Standing Female Figure, 1850 CE - 1920 CE

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The social and political life of the Lega (also known as the Warega) is regulated by the Bwami society, to which both men and women belong. There are seven levels...
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The social and political life of the Lega (also known as the Warega) is regulated by the Bwami society, to which both men and women belong. There are seven levels for men, four levels for women. Figures are individually owned by the highest ranking society members,they are the most coveted of all initiation objects. Some anthropomorphic figures are called kalimbangoma. Each member of Musagi wa Kindi, a sublevel of the highest Bwami rank, owns a bone or ivory human kalimbangoma figure as a sign of his status.The iginga statues in ivory are the exclusive and individual property of the initiated association bwami . Of more general manner, all initiated lutumbo lwa kindi possesses at least a statue of this type, obtained at the time of his or her accession to this very high rank. According to Biebuyck (in Tervuren, 1995: 381), these statues most often were inherited of a deceased parent after having been displayed on his grave. Each is associated with a specific aphorism. They "recall the virtues of the initiated past generations, they maintain rules and moral, social, lawful and philosophical norms defended by their predecessors; they are the links between the past generations and the present .
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