Figure
The nkisi (pl. minkisi) protected souls, offered healing, and located the cause of sickness. It was activated by a priest-like nganga. Each one would contain medicine appropriate to the needs of the villager, or the community. Medicine (bilongo) would be contained in the belly and head of the carving. The exact purpose of this figure is unknown.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 9/1889/98
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Religion and magic
- Collection Area Region
- Central Africa
- Collector Excavator
- Dennett, Mr Richard Edward (from the collection of)
- Material
- wood | fabric | feather | cloth | glass
- Common Name
- figure
- Simple Name
- power figure
- Production Town
- Loango
- Production County
- Lower Congo River
- Production Country
- Angola
- Production Person Initials
- Production Person Surname
- Production Year Low
- Production Year High
