Chief's wife in the Bamileke region

The chief's wife is on a square used for the dances, during a day of celebration, and she holds a calabash decorated with beads. She also wears a cowries crown, emblem of the chief's wife, bought outside the tribe.; From 1945 to 1959, Daniel Broussous was the head doctor of the protestant hospital of Bangwa, set up by the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris evangelical mission society) in the south of the region Bamileke in 1935. Broussous took many photographs documenting the art, the architecture, the traditions and the daily-life of Bamileke chieftainships. He also made several films.