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Motif: Women finished to dance. Photo by: missionary J. Hammar Dato: 1911. Erh. of: purchase of a dito Dato: 1917. Room: Yalemba, (Belgian Congo) Zaire. (Catalogue card) Text on single paper from Ethnographic Museet, Gothenburg, Sweden: Complete text in picture 1385 obtained gm.avskr. by text on photocopy in the archives of the Swedish Missioners' Association in November 1945: “On arrival in Yalemba was a big party in the village, located a 50 m from the houses of the whites. The reason for the party was the repatriation of the village’s first named man, who was believed to be dead and who had been long and far away. A dance was made in 8 dar. On my visit to the village, only women danced. Some of them appeared here. 1911, J. Hammar.”