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The largest and most decorated house to the left (1907.50.1), closest to the life-size model of the village Sundi Mongo, is from the mission station Kingoyi of Manianga District of Bas-Congo Province in DRC. The collector was Missionary Per Olof Wirén. The people living in this area were predominantly Bwende.
Although the model was probably collected for the Stockholm Missionary Exhibition in 1907, it seems not to have been part of that display, nor part of the permanent display at the then Ethnographic Museum judging by the photographs.
The origin of the other houses  are not corroborated (they were not given numbers in the Museum series but simply marked nos 4 and 8), but Dr Lotten Gustafsson-Reinius, who curated the 2006 reconstruction of the Missionary exhibition, holds that they were collected for the 1907 exhibition by missionary Axel Johan Vilhelm Hammar (1873-1967). He was also stationed in the Manianga area at Nganda (1903-06) and later founded Madzia station in the French Congo (1909). This means that the houses are most likely also of Bwende origin.
(From Michael Barrett, FD).