The boy is wearing the badge of initiation, the woven hoop around his waist. The phases in these initiation rituals of the Kuba-Bushong are: preliminaries; first masks in village; "wall"; induction through wall and tunnel; camp in bush (no pictures!); forays of boys near village; return to village and dances of snake and salt; captured in net and the eating of rats; firebrand thrown over the wall at the end.
- Description of object
- Black and white Photograph, Landscape, jpeg
- Format of Original
- Still image
- Photographer
- Vansina, Jan
- Published in
- Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)
