cover image: Kuba-Bushong Religious Specialist "God's Medicine Woman" (Ngang a Ncyem)

Kuba-Bushong Religious Specialist "God's Medicine Woman" (Ngang a Ncyem)

May 1956

The woman's power is her nature spiriit (for all of the village domain and beyond) that lives in a particular spot of a nearby brook. She is wearing a fur hat with tail, beads, cowrie shells, white kaolin (chalk), a tiny bow over her shoulder, and a bead collar.
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Format of Original
Still image
Photographer
Vansina, Jan
Published in
Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)
Series
Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent

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