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Ritual whistle "nsiba" ·  R. D. Congo, Yombe · ID: 3033970

Vendu 5 200 €
Provenance
John J. Klejman, New York, 1970s or earlier
American Private Collection, New York

Description

wood, rich blackish brown patina, in shape of an animal horn with striations at the base, crowned by a small standing figure with snake, head in profile, rep. (right arm, left wrist), on base;
in shape of a whistle. Ritual specialists and diviners use the whistle in their rituals as a tool with which one can communicate with spirits and the dead. The sound it emits is considered to go straight to a supernatural realm.


Littérature comparée

Maurer, Evan, Batulukisi, Niangi, Spirits Embodied, Minneapolis 1999, p. 65, ill. 9


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