Charm figure; standing male figure; brown-stained wood with red overlay; empty fetish box in stomach has traces of white material in it; fiber band around forehead attached to black-dyed comm. cloth with remnant of feathers within; perforation through ears at front and hear elbows; height 25 cm
Donor:
Mitsuo Inouye and Mrs. Mitsuo Inouye
Collection place:
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Verbatim coll. place:
Zaire; Ba-Yaka
Culture or time period:
Ba Yaka
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Fetishes
Function:
5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies