The lineage head had to be able of life and death on his members. Position became of the cult of the ancestors and was the judicial authority. It must have numerous descendants. The lineage was put under the authority of the founding lineage, that, as well, paid an annual tribute to the head of the region. This one rendered accounts to the king, supreme authority which attended a consultative advice of men with title.

To the margin of this jeraquía, the Earth Mr. played an important role in the rites that accompanied the hunting, essential activity of the men, and that could be individual, with arc or carbine, or collective, helped by dogs and traps. Like between their neighbors beenmbe or bwende, to make sure that they would obtain the hunting, the hunters made a precise ritual under the direction of the Earth Mr.

The Suku (and the Yaka) practiced an initiation, n-khanda. A special cabin in the forest was constructed to welcome in the postulantes during its retirement, that finished with the circuncisión, which was reason for great celebrations with masks, dances and songs. The initiated young people would belong then to the paternal group.
N-khanda was organized whenever there was a sufficient number of boys between the ten and fifteen years.

In this tribe, the fortune teller ngoombu exerted his office with a divination drum.
The wood sculpture includes an art of tie cut to the social hierarchy: standards of heads, belts, bracelets, chip axes, pipes, laminae of taking of word, reposanucas (Demanded for complicated hairdos that rare time recovered), as well as pending and espantamoscas that is the attributes of the head of the war. The hunting sorceries consisted of statuettes or simple logs, to which a special hut or a sacred enclosure was honored in. The musical instruments included whistles for the dogs, in which one was carved figurilla and the drums with crack adorned with a bust or human body in one of its ends; the drums served as seat when they were raised.

Like in most of the ethnic groups of Zaire, the statuettes with a content of magical ingredients, biteki, had beneficial or pernicious functions. The medicines were introduced in the abdomen closed with a resin cork or contained in saquitos stuck to the neck or the waist. Khosi, whose dimension varies between the 30 and 76 cm, consisted of a body with two faces and unfolded members, or by two statuettes that are touched by the back. The face goes by halves painted by halves of red and white, whereas the body is adorned with red and white points, and the hips covered by one rafia or of cotton. The statue is conserved in a hut located in the enclosure of the house of the headquarters.

Suku North dle has frequent statues, mulomba little, or figures with the extended hand asking for a gift. They are property of the heads of the region. All the sculptures take to the typical hairdo of the earth heads and lineage.

Unlike statutory, the interesting one in the aesthetic plane, the masks are popular and poor. They respond to diverse functions: some serve as protection against the curses and others the future assure the fertility young initiate. Its paper consists of scaring the assistants, curing the diseases or to send curses. The mask-sorcery of the specialist of the initiation does not dance. Its appearance must provoke the terror, mainly kakuungu of suku, of swollen cheeks, massive characteristics and prominent chin. It is the mask greater than it is known in black Africa. Divided vertically, with a red side and another target, it is maintained with a grip located under the chin.

Suku hemba uses mask-helmet. Carved in a wood cylinder, the hairdo usually is crowned by a personage or an animal in altorrelieve. In the north the pinto mask of target and is marked with blue lines, whereas to the south is red. These masks would be the image of the community of the old deceaseds, mainly of the maternal firing line officers. They favor the success in the hunting, heal and they punish to North criminales.l the pinto mask of target and it is marked with blue lines, whereas to the south is red. These masks would be the image of the community of the old deceaseds, mainly of the maternal firing line officers. They favor the success in the hunting, heal and they punish the criminals.