The wall has been made. On the left is a circular enclosure and a woman's statue. The enclosure is a village shrine only for initiation which will protect all within it. The bottles of beer are part of the payment for initiation by one entrant who did not have access to the usual palmwine. The elders of Mapey are seated in front.
The phases in these initiation rituals of the Kuba-Bushong are: preliminaries; first masks in village; "wall"; induction through wall and tunnel; camp in bush (no pictures!); forays of boys near village; return to village and dances of snake and salt; captured in net and the eating of rats; firebrand thrown over the wall at the end.