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Nail Figure (nkisi n'kondi) Yombe, Congo c.1875 (wood with screws, nails, blades & cowrie shells)

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DTR1125689
Image title
Nail Figure (nkisi n'kondi) Yombe, Congo c.1875 (wood with screws, nails, blades & cowrie shells)
Artist
African, (19th century) / African
Location
Detroit Institute of Arts, USA
Medium
wood with screws, nails, blades and cowrie shells
Date
c. 1875 AD (C19th AD)
Dimensions
116.8x47x36.2 cms
Image description

nail figure served as doctor, judge and priest; carved to capture the power of spirits necessary for healing and adjudicating disputes; wood, screws, nails, blades, cowrie shell and other materials; used for taking oaths; Yombre Nkisi Nkondi;Power figure;

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Photo: © Detroit Institute of Arts / Bridgeman Images
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Eleanor Clay Ford Fund for African Art
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wood (material) / material / ceremony / priest / blades / figure / spiritual / african / nails / africa / symbolic / nail / ritual / sculpture / primitive / wooden / artefact / doctor / tribal / ethnography / blade / judge / power / male / shell / cowrie
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Medium 812 × 1024 px 69 × 87 mm 623 KB

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