Source 189: The following quote comes from The University of Iowa Museum of Art's website: ‘Art & Life in Africa’, accessed August 2011 at: https://africa.uima.uiowa.edu/peoples/show/Lega. These links may or may not still be operational; if it isn't, we may have redirected it to the WayBackMachine archive.

‘The highest rank of Bwami…[who] regulate the social, religious and political life of the Lega…is directly associated with the skulls of the ancestors, which are placed in a hut at the center of the village…[and] are not exposed to public eye’

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