Anjenu River Spirits are characterized as Dream Haunters and possible sources of infertility and ill-health in Idoma Society. In an effort to appease Them, women offer bottles of river water and calabash gourds at Dedicated Shrines. The Priestess responsible for a given Site of Veneration may also incur the cost of commissioning a work such as this one.

Culturally hybrid, Anjenu Figures combine aspects of Igala and Hausa Nature Spirits with those of the Pan-African Water Deity Mami Wata.