Zemanek-Münster

Male power figure "nkisi" / "nkishi"

D. R. Congo, Songye
sold EUR 1,000
Provenance
American Collection
Size
H: 21,5 cm
H: 8.5 inch

Description

wood, animal skin, metal, handwritten inventory no. “1452” and label “T-199”, fragmentary, base

This figure impresses above all with its heavily sweating patina on the face and neck. It still carries magical mass in a tube of reptile skin around its body. In the head there is a recess for filling with magical charge.


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