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Start Over Object class Fetishes Media available image Accession number Acc.1302
Hearst Museum object titled Cup, accession number 5-1698, described as Wooden cup, semi-circular, oval top. Used in fetish initiations. 10.16 x 5.68 x 4.81 cm.
Hearst Museum object titled Fetish, accession number 5-1551, described as Carved wooden figurine by child of a Suku Mukisi (fetish), feathered top. Made in imitation of real thing. Was used in a play. CHECK
Hearst Museum object titled Fetish, accession number 5-1680, described as Kungulya “fetish”: four carved wooden male and female figures standing back to back; all carved from one piece of hard wood. Hair neck ornament on each. For curing sexual impotence. Height 32.38 cm
Hearst Museum object titled Fetish and pouch, accession number 5-1659a-c, described as (a) pouch (b) 2 netting-wrapped horns, possibly coated in ochre (c) netting-wrapped human head figure
Hearst Museum object titled Figure, accession number 5-1712, described as Carved wooden head-fetish. Face light brownish [red], dark brown features. Height 29.2 cm.
Hearst Museum object titled Figurine, accession number 5-1556, described as Carved wooden figurine, Suku “fetish;” Konju (West Basuku). Height 20.31 cm. Konju. Figurine part of paraphernalia of medicine of kisungu type, associated with diseases involving limb deformation, especially of the foot/leg. Contemporary. Carved by a young man, ca. 30 years old [ as of ca. 1960], regarded as a good carver by the Suku, from village near the Bayaka border, on the left side of the river Bakali, in the administrative Secteur of Ganaketi. The Suku here are culturally very close to the Yaka on the other side of the river (in fact, some lineages are split by the formal boundary between the two kingdoms).
Hearst Museum object titled Figurine, accession number 5-1561, described as Carved wooden figurine, Suku “fetish;” Northeast Basuku. Height 20.94 cm. See remarks on card for 5-1559.
Hearst Museum object titled Figurine, accession number 5-1553, described as Carved wooden figurine, Suku “fetish;” Mbambi (Northeast Baasuku). Height 48.23 cm. Mbambi figurine. Carved by a man from Mungulu village of Secteur Pay, Territoire Masi-Manimba. The manwas regarded as a good sculptor by the Suku. Figurine is part of the paraphernalia of the “war medicine” Mbambi. The medicine was first introduced shortly before 1920, by the Suku king from the Bambala to the north. It was given to groups of elders in each chieftaincy who constituted a kind of “policeforce” led by local political chief or his representative. Every member of the police society was responsible for enforcing peace and order in his vicinity; he had the right to collect fines from those creating disorders (fines shared by all the other policemen of the chieftaincy), and could count upon the help of other members of the police-society in case of resistance by wrong-doers.
Hearst Museum object titled Figurine, accession number 5-1577, described as Carved wooden figurine, Suku “fetish,” five string beaded neck ornament; Membwolu (Northwest Basuku). Height 13.32 cm. For data on Mumbwolu, see 5-1554. Figurines 5-1577-83 are all “old,” i.e. they were carved and used in shrines before 1950-- this the terminal date; actually age may be more, although it’s doubtful they would be pre-1940. Carvers unknown. All from Secteur Bindungi, Territoire Masi-Manimba.
Hearst Museum object titled Figurine, accession number 5-1677, described as Carved wooden figurine: fetish; grass braided cord around head and body. height 29.2 cm.

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