Power figure (nkisi)
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Power figure (nkisi) (late 1800s–early 1900s). René and Odette Delenne Collection, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund Rights: CC0. https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.441

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This figure is one of the two tallest of the seven anthropomorphic minkisi figurines previously in the Delenne collection. Identified as an nduda , two upward “guns” are attached on its side loaded with gunpowder used to shoot witches. Its label bears the word colique , a term referring to heavy pains caused by intestinal obstruction.

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A dark-toned wooden figure, likely Yoruba, holds a hollowed-out drum and wears a draped cloth.

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