Side view (left) | Photographer: Claudia Obrocki | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Power figure
The following was noted in the museum's main catalogue when this object was received: "Fetish figure male [symbol] Loango? Mayumbe?". Shape: Nail fetish with glass eyes, a bundle of cloth in the mouth and a carved container for magic mass in front of the stomach. The latter is open and without contents Colour: Black, white, red State of preservation: Fragments missing.
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Mayombe (Yombe) (?)
Object type
Power figure
Dimensions
Height: 66 cm
Width: 25 cm
Depth: 26 cm
Weight: 3,463 kg
Width: 25 cm
Depth: 26 cm
Weight: 3,463 kg
Material/Technique
Wood, Textile, Glass
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 18903
Provenance and sources
when
19th century - 20th century (beginning)
who
Mayombe (Yombe) (?)
who
Robert Visser (de.fiz.ddb.model.ddbobject.WhenType$Begin@2c1d1b2c - de.fiz.ddb.model.ddbobject.WhenType$End@1f9f33e4) - Collectors
Description
Donation from Robert Visser 1904
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