English: Kongo funerary mannequin (niombo), representing a woman of great importance and social stature. The gesture is characteristic of the niombo. Right hand is up and left hand is at the level of the waist. An inperpretation for this is that it indicates the balance of forces of the sky (zulu) with forces underneath the horizon line (lukongolo Iwantoto), boundary of the dead. This niombo is the work of the great Bwende artist, Makoza of Kingoyi village. It was collected in another village, the village of Kihanga, from a Badondo clan in Northern Kongo, by the noted Swedish ethnologist, Efraim Andersson, who gave it to the Museum of Ethnography in Gothenburg, Sweden in August 1938. (The Four Moments of the Sun, p. 226)