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Glossary Recurrent Luvale Words chimbanda (pl. vimbanda) doctor; herbalist; ritual expert Ilunga Luba hunter who married Luweji Kayongo divination lihamba kenge (lukenge) (pl. jikenge) root from the mukenge tree used in basket making kukombela to invoke the spirits kumba (pl. jikumba) basket used for storing and carrying the lipele kusekula to shake the divination basket kutaha to divine kutunga to make or build kuzata to work kuzachisa to use lihamba (hamba) (pl. mahamba) ancestral manifestation; material representation of an ancestor lipele (pl. mapele) divination basket lukano (pl. jikano) metallic bracelet inherited from an ancestor Luweji chiefly title; Ilunga’s first wife lwalo (pl. jilwalo) winnowing basket mbango (pl. jimbango) coiled basket 150 Glossary milimo (pl. milimo) labor (mulimo, the singular form, is no longer used) mukakutaha (pl. vakakutaha) diviner mukandumba (pl. vakandumba) witch or wizard mukenge (pl. mikenge) tree (Combretum zeyheri); see kenge mukula (pl. mikula) bloodwood tree (Ptecarpus angolensis) muloji (pl. valoji) witch or sorcerer munenge (pl. minenge) bloodwood pole used as divination shrine musambo (pl. misambo) divination rattle shaken during invocation muyombo (pl. miyombo) tree (Lannea stuhlmanni) used for invoking and appeasing the ancestors mwivwi (pl. mivwi) arrow; deposit ngombo (pl. jingombo) material oracle ngula red clay Nyakweleka woman who divined with a pestle in Musumba; Sakweleka’s wife Nyaminenge title of the diviner’s senior wife pelo (lupelo) (pl. jipelo) divination article; powerful organic substance pemba white clay ponde (pl. jiponde) sudden violent death; disease caused by an ancestor who died in this way pumba (pl. vapumba) divination apprentice Sakweleka the first lipele diviner; Nyakweleka’s husband somo (pl. jisomo) horn used by diviners to attract clients tewa (pl. vatewa) consulter (the diviner’s client) ...

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