Power figure (nkisi)
Unknown Artist
late 1800s-early 1900s
Medium
Wood, metalized glass, organic materials (including resin), feathers, plant fibers, iron, and copper alloy
Dimensions
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Classification
Sculpture
Department
African Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
René and Odette Delenne Collection, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
Accession Number
2010.439
About this artwork
One of seven minkisi figures previously in the René and Odette Delenne collection, this object contained medicines in which an ancestral spirit was believed to reside. This figure is one of the two tallest in the collection. Feathers of a bird of prey adorn its head, with two small guns pointing upward and a third hanging down. It had belonged to “the sorcerer of Louboulou.”