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  • “In order to remove your husband's dead body from your body, you must sleep with his little brother,” said Maganga, a member of the Hemba tribe in the south-east of the country.

    War and Tribal Tradition Feed Sexual Violence Against Women IWPR 2009

  • “In order to remove your husband's dead body from your body, you must sleep with his little brother,” said Maganga, a member of the Hemba tribe in the south-east of the country.

    War and Tribal Tradition Feed Sexual Violence Against Women IWPR 2009

  • Hemba work was virtually unknown in the West until the 1960s and is still little studied.

    NYT > Home Page By HOLLAND COTTER 2011

  • In this case the figures acknowledged, however tentatively, by name are the subjects depicted in nearly a hundred Central and West African sculptures, among them a group of Hemba figures from Congo, each a portrait of a specific elder in an ancestral lineage.

    NYT > Home Page By HOLLAND COTTER 2011

  • Hemba work was virtually unknown in the West until the 1960s and is still little studied.

    NYT > Home Page By HOLLAND COTTER 2011

  • In this case the figures acknowledged, however tentatively, by name are the subjects depicted in nearly a hundred Central and West African sculptures, among them a group of Hemba figures from Congo, each a portrait of a specific elder in an ancestral lineage.

    NYT > Home Page By HOLLAND COTTER 2011

  • The topliner was a Hemba male ancestor figure from the Niembo-Luika region of the

    The Art Newspaper - RSS 2010

  • Susana Vera/Reuters ADMIRING ART: A man took a picture of the sculpture "Statue of Hemba Ancestor," by French artist Maurice de Vlaminck, at Madrid's Caixa Forum Museum Monday.

    Today's Photos: March 9 2009

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