| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - When they first encountered these objects in the 18th and 19th centuries, especially things such as masks and statues used in various rituals or displayed in temples and other sacred places, the missionaries considered them to be associated with pagan practices and thus ???idolatrous.??? According to the missionaries, the destruction of such objects was a necessary first step towards the conversio
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