Hongwe/Mahongwe reliquary "bwete" (Gabon). Louis Perrois writes in "African Faces, African Figures - The Arman Collection" - "All such objects disappeared from the villages between 1940 and 1960. Confiscated by missionaries or destroyed by prophets of new syncretic religions (the "Mademoiselle" cult, for example), others were sometimes merely hidden in ancient cemeteries, deep in the forest, where, accidentally, some are still being recovered."