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Songye Nkisi magic fetish, African Art

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Description: Carved wooden figure with stylized features and adorned with various "magic" regalia, From the Congo, central Africa. A Songye "nganga", or religious specialist, has endowed this carved figure with spiritual powers by inserting symbolic substances—animal, vegetable, and mineral—into its head and by attaching bundles of similar ingredients to its chest, neck. Locals would make offerings to ancestral spirits who bestow fertility and provide protection against disease and misfortune to such sculptures. Professionally mounted to base.Condition Report: Top Horn broken off long ago, decay to animal hide skirt, otherwise intact.Dimensions: 11 3/4 inches tall.Date: Mid 20th century

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Top Horn broken off long ago, decay to animal hide skirt, otherwise intact.

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Songye Nkisi magic fetish, African Art

Name: Songye Nkisi magic fetish, African Art
SKU: 32953406
Price: 150 USD
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