The tsekedye animal masks of the Yaka rarely represent a pig. Just as with the Tshokwe, the pig possibly symbolizes the uncontrollable, ill-mannered impulses that the initiated (and henceforth ‘civilized’) boys should guard against. The originality of the artist is mainly in the way in which he has depicted the body of the pig.

Most animal masks belong to the tsekedye category (the least prestigious category). But when an artist was particularly pleased with the plastic quality of his creation, he could assign it to a higher category and, for example, make it a ndeemba.