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Male power figure "nkisi" / "nkishi", D. R. Congo, Songye, Size: H: 21,5 cm (H: 8.5 inch), ID: 3050391
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Lot 336
101st Auction

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

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.

Africa
Figures

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