Production
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1850 - 1898
Nduda nkisi | Photographer: Axel Killian | Rights management: Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Nduda nkisi
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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.
- Data Provider
- Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider
Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Kongo
- Object type
- figures (representations)
- Dimensions
- Height: 160.0 mm
- Material/Technique
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Resins, Bones, Plant fibre, Leaf, Wood
- Current location
- Museum Natur und Mensch
- Inventory number
- I/2655
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Change of legal title:
Purchase-
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1899
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Change of physical control or legal title
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where
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Congo (location/origin)Africa (location/origin)Nigeria (location/origin)
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
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- Legal status metadata
- CC0 1.0 DEED
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