The word khaaka may be translated as ‘mother of the clan’. This old power statue was associated with the leaders of the powerful Mutangu chiefdom. Another statue, which was found in the same chiefdom in the 1950s, attests to the historical dimension that these kinds of objects can have. This second statue, which never made it into a collection, was made from the wood of a tree where, during the 18th-century battle of Zumbu A Vumvu against the Suku, a kiamfu (sovereign) of Lunda origin was killed. The jaw of the kiamfu was taken by the Mutangu chief as a trophy and attached to the statue.