Public altar of the Sociedad Conga de San Antonio, Palmira, Cienfuegos, July 1994. It presents itself in a form typical of Catholic domestic shrines (raised table, icons in statue and lithograph form, and baldachin canopy). Two chalk-marked ngomo drums used in ceremonies stand in front. The Sociedad Conga, along with three Lucumí societies, were founded by ex-slaves during the early twentieth century in Palmira, which gathered Africans who had worked the huge plantations of Cuba’s fertile south-central region.

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