Pot (nkisi)
Charged with marine shells and other medicines (bilongo), this nkisi is connected to water spirits. This vessel was believed to capture the invisible forces from the land of the dead.
Acquired by trader Richard E. Dennett 1879 - 1889
Acquired by trader Richard E. Dennett 1879 - 1889
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 9/1889/56
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Religion and magic
- Collection Area Region
- CENT
- Material
- potteryshellsresinfibrebone
- Common Name
- pot (nkisi)
- Simple Name
- pot
- Production Town
- Loango
- Production County
- Lower Congo River
- Production Country
- Congo, Democratic Republic of
- Production Year Low
- 1879
- Production Year High
- 1889
