The Niombo Cult Among the Babwende, Volumes 11-14 |
Common terms and phrases
Aldén ancestor cult Angola arms Babembe Babwende Bakongo Bas-Congo Basundi Bateke Baumann blankets body Brazzaville burial rites Bwende calabash carvings Church of Sweden cloth idols coffin Congolese corpse-swather dancing dead chief dead man's dead person death deceased deceased's dialect died Ethnographical Museum ETNOGRAFISKA fire French Congo funeral ceremony funeral procession gongs grave gunpowder Hammar writes head house of mourning Kaj Birket-Smith kanda family Karlman Kingoyi Kongo Laman writes lamentation living Lower Congo Makosa Manker gives mats Mazinga Mbanza Congo mentioned metres Mission Covenant Church mission-station Missionary Möller monograph mourning customs mummifying Museum of Sweden mvumbi ndungu Nganda nganga niombo burial niombo cult niombo shroud nkungi Northern Rhodesia Öhrneman Pagels and Gleerup palm-wine Price Swedish Crowns Ragnar Widman shooting shots smeared smoke-drying spirit STOCKHOLM 1967 Sundi swathed swather tangala drum tattoos things tribe trumpets village Vungu wail Walder widows wives women wooden wrapped Zanaga