Food is often placed at the ancestral altar as an offering to the dead.

As the stairs glide me up the hill, I stare into interiors lighted by the glow of red ancestral altars.

Ikegobo, like the royal ancestral altars, are settings for spectacular examples of Benin art.

It hung on a wall next to the ancestral altar, a charm to ward off evil spirits.

In the space between the jars, halfway up the wall, was the ancestral altar.

Altars of soil and grain were constructed alongside ancestral altars.

Therefore, the role of the objects on ancestral altars was to construct memory and affirm social identity.

I burn on the ancestral altar.

However, for reminiscene, two original parapets and the ancestral altar were preserved.

Local leadership would often destroy the ancestral altars of new members.