The word"chikungunya" comes from the Makonde(or KiMakonde) language, spoken on the Makonde plateau where the disease was first described.
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The word“Chikungunya” is derived from the language of Makonde(or Kimkond), which is spoken on the Mokonde Plateau
where this disease was born.
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According to the museum, one of the most important objects of the African collection are
helmet masks made by the East African Makonde tribe(Tanzania, Mozambique) which came from Wacław Korabiewicz's collection.