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Male Figure (Nkisi), late 1800s-early 1900s

Male Figure (Nkisi)

late 1800s-early 1900s · Sculpture

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The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, USA

Sal108A African

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Nkisi is an object that is believed to host an ancestral spirit. Unusual among these figures, this nkisi figure is missing its nduda, “night guns.” These guns would be filled with gunpowder functioning as defense against witches or misfortune. Unless its guns were lost during the course of its life history, this nkisi may instead be an example of a more general type called mpanzu, whose functions included protection.

The Cleveland Museum of Art

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Inventarnummer
2010.433

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SkulpturTræKlassicismeRomantikken1800-talletAfrica, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cabinda, or Republic of the Congo, probably Vili-style maker

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I samme sal · 108A African, The Cleveland Museum of Art

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Set 3, from the series Les Septs Stations Célestes (The Seven Heavenly Stations), Rachid Koraïchi, 2018

Rachid Koraïchi

Set 3, from the series Les Septs Stations Célestes (The Seven Heavenly Stations), 2018

Tablet from Set 3, from the series Les Septs Stations Célestes (The Seven Heavenly Stations), Rachid Koraïchi, 2018

Rachid Koraïchi

Tablet from Set 3, from the series Les Septs Stations Célestes (The Seven Heavenly Stations), 2018

Tablet from Set 3, from the series Les Septs Stations Célestes (The Seven Heavenly Stations), Rachid Koraïchi, 2018

Rachid Koraïchi

Tablet from Set 3, from the series Les Septs Stations Célestes (The Seven Heavenly Stations), 2018

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Duga of Mẹkọ

Mask, c. 1945–1950