Crucified "nkangi kititu" ·  D. R. Congo · ID: 3043757

Description

wood, base

Such crucifixes are important as they legitimize the power of their owners and played an important role during the investiture ritual of chiefs, during significant controversies, during judgements to prove to testify truthfully.
Somtimes they were also considered to have healing powers.

The object Crucified “nkangi kititu” with the object ID 3043757 was last part of the auction 89th Tribal Art Auction at July 7, 2018 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 341 achieved a sales price of EUR 300.

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Comparing literature

Musée du Quai Branly (ed.), Du Jourdain au Congo, Paris 2016, p. 50 f & 65

Publications

AHDRC: 0021078