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Wooden figure used as container for nkisi force

1890-1910

Mother and child statue

1880-1920

Carved wooden statue presumably male but with no genital organs

1860-1910

Ivory amulet

Wooden amulet

Wooden amulet in the form of a carved head

Wooden amulet

Ivory statue

Decorative wooden comb with carved anthropomorphic head

1901-1930

Ivory amulet, in the form of a head, Zaire

Bronze amulet

Wooden amulet

Tobacco pipe

1880-1925

Tobacco pipe

1860-1930

Wooden anthropomorphic effigy

1880-1930

Carved wooden divination board

1880-1920

Amuletic horn bound with fibre and ornamented with cowrie shells

1890-1930

Carved ivory snuff mortar in the form of a male figure

1871-1920

Model of a cupping vessel

1880-1920

Amulet, in the form of a face

Carved wooden effigy of squatting female figure surmounted by solid wood headdress

1880-1925

Iron effigy in male form

1851-1920

Tattooing instruments in wooden case, two steel needles, one iron strip, two elephant hair points and a bone pin

1900-1930

Carved tobacco pipe

1890-1920

Carved wooden figure of sitting female holding an offering bowl

1860-1874

Tobacco water pipe

1850-1920

Wood log roughly carved in stylised phallic form bound with plaited wicker

1880-1930

Carved wooden figure of female reclining on rectangular board

1880-1930

Carved wooden anthropomorphic figure standing on incised base

1880-1910

Lead amulet

Wooden amulet in the form of a carved head

Lead amulet

Metal amulet

Wooden amulet

Ivory amulet

Carved wooden snuff mortar in the form of a squatting human figure

1880-1920

Ivory amulet

Ivory amulet

Ivory amulet

Bronze amulet

Wooden effigy representing the goddess of maternity

1880-1930

Carved ivory statue

1871-1920

Wooden amulet, made by the Bapende of Zaire

Amulet in the form of a face

Snuff mortar and pestle

1850-1912

Carved wooden figurine of kneeling woman holding a small child on one knee, other hand clutching her left breast, padded cloth neckband, made by medicine man to keep evil spirits away from pregnant women, Mayombe tribe, West Congo, 1880-1925

Carved wooden figurine of woman and child

1880-1925

Wooden anthropomorphic statue, resinous concretion in headdress, mirror-fronted abdominal protusion of resin containing "medicine" mirrors for divinatory purposes, Mayombe or neighbouring tribes, West Congo, 1880-1920

Wooden anthropomorphic statue

1880-1920

Carved wooden dog with a beeswax dorsal casket on back with inset mirror (broken) wooden bones with beeswax ends hung around body, prepared by the medicine man, Mayombe tribe(?), maker, Congo, 1880-1920

Carved wooden dog with a beeswax dorsal casket on

1880-1920

Lead amulet, made by the Bapende of Zaire

Lead amulet, made by the Bapende of Zaire

Pair of iron tongs and a spoon, Azande, maker, North East Belgian Congo, 1890-1930

Pair of iron tongs and a spoon

1890-1930