Male power figure "nkisi" / "nkishi" ·  D. R. Congo, Songye · ID: 3050391

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.

The object Male power figure “nkisi” / “nkishi” with the object ID 3050391 was last part of the auction 101st Auction at November 11, 2023 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 336 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,000.

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