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Slit GongMbunda/Lwena Bush Slit Gong/DrumSoutheast Angola Wood
The Vambunda (Mbunda, Mbúùnda or Chimbúùnda) are a Bantu speaking people who came from the north to south-eastern Angola and finally Barotseland, now part of Zambia. Their core is at present found in the south-east of Angola from the Lunguevungu river in Moxico to the Cuando Cubango Province. The Vambunda comprise a number of subgroups, each of which speaks its own dialect. This slit gong is carved from one piece of wood with representive ancestral figure heads at each end.
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