Bansonyi

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…which needed a home or dwelling place so they can be categorized. Hence, the statues were used to give the spirits an identity. They were also spirits who were blamed for misfortunes when they occurred. When the spirit enters the statue, it was a tribal custom to provide for the statute as one would for a human. Since the Africans associated the carvings with religion, the sculptures helped them to deal with their psychological issues.