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Wooden figure used as container for nkisi force
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
1890-1910
Nail-studded figure, Democratic Republic of Congo, 1880-1920
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
1880-1920
Container for nkisi force with feather headdress, Democratic Republic of Congo, 1890-1925
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
1890-1925
Small carved hard wood kneeling female figure with five infants and mirror glass eyes, possibly made by Bakongo from Congo, 1850-1920
Carved figure of woman with five infants
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
1850-1920
Carved wooden figure of female reclining on rectan
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
1880-1930
Amuletic horn tip, antelope, pierced at point, Bakongo, Lower Congo, West Africa 1880-1910
Amuletic horn tip, antelope
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
1880-1910
