Mirror figure | Photographer: Axel Killian
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Mirror figure
The idea that illness and death can be caused externally by the negative influences of others is widespread in Africa. So-called mirror figures, charged with magical and ritual powers, serve their owners as protection against such danger. The mirror, once attached to the belly of the figure, warded off malefactors by banishing them in their own reflection and thus destroying them.
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Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Cultural attribution
Kongo
Object type
figures (representations)
Dimensions
Höhe: 160.0 mm
Material/Technique
Wood
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
I/2655
Provenance and sources
when
1850 - 1898
when
1899
where
Congo (location/origin)
Africa (location/origin)
Nigeria (location/origin)
Africa (location/origin)
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