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  2. Nkisi - Wikipedia

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    Although nkisi nkondi have probably been made since at least the sixteenth century, the specifically nailed figures, which have been the object of collection in Western museums, nailed nkondi were probably made primarily in the northern part of the Kongo cultural zone in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

  3. Nkondi - Wikipedia

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    Nkondi (plural varies minkondi, zinkondi, or ninkondi) [1] are mystical statuettes made by the Kongo people of the Congo region. Nkondi are a subclass of minkisi that are considered aggressive. The name nkondi derives from the verb -konda , meaning "to hunt" and thus nkondi means "hunter" because they can hunt down and attack wrong-doers ...

  4. File:Nkisi Nkondi, Congo, c. 1880-1920 - IMG 1628.JPG

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  5. File:Statuette protectrice nkisi, 71.1892.52.2, Musée du quai ...

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  6. File:WLA metmuseum Power Figure Male Nkisi.jpg - Wikipedia

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  7. Kongo religion - Wikipedia

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    Male Power Figure (Nkisi), Kongo artist and nganga, late19th–mid-20th century, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Supernatural objects that were reduced to the derogatory term, fetishes, by the Portuguese were said to be inhabited by nature spirits or deified people who embodied the extraordinary power of the spiritual world. These objects or ...

  8. Kongo people - Wikipedia

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    Kongo bowl in the National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC Nkisi nkondi of the Kongo people; Nkisi means holy. [ 64 ] The later Portuguese missionaries and Capuchin monks upon their arrival in Kongo were baffled by these practices in the late 17th century (nearly 150 years after the acceptance of Christianity as the state religion in the ...

  9. Candomblé Bantu - Wikipedia

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    Nzambi is the "sovereign master"; he created the earth, then withdrew from the world. Nzambi Mpungu remains responsible for rainfall and health. [3]Aluvaiá (also Bombo Njila, Pambu Njila, Nzila, Mujilo, Mavambo, Vangira, Njila, Maviletango) is an intermediary between human beings and other Nkisi; he is additionally the protector of the houses.

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