Kongo Test test test 13037 FIG. 36 (left): Master of the Boma-Vonde Region, seated female nursing a child. Kongo peoples; Yombe group, Boma Vonde region, Democratic Republic of the Congo. 19th–early 20th century (inventoried 1913). Collected by Gaetano Moselli Roselli- Lorenzini, Boma Vonde region, before 1913; donated to the Museo Preistorico Etnografi co Luigi Pigorini, 1913. Wood, kaolin. H: 23.7 cm. MiBACT—Polo Museale del Lazio, Museo Preistorico Etnografi co Luigi Pigorini, Rome (84209). FIGS. 35a & b (right and below): Master of the Boma Vonde region, power fi gure of a seated female nursing a child, nkisi. Kongo peoples; Yombe group, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Republic of the Congo; or Cabinda, Angola. 19th–early 20th century. Wood, metal, kaolin. H: 28.3 cm. Steven Kossak, The Kronos Collections, New York. NOTES 1. The author thanks James Green, research associate in the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, for his contributions to this project and article. 2. A padrão that he planted south of Benguela in Angola is the only intact example that still survives. The Portuguese inscription in gothic letters of fi g. 2a covers three sides of the cube and reads as follows: “In the year 6681 of the World, and in that of 1482 since the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, the most serene, most excellent and potent prince, King D. Joao II of Portugal did order (mandou) this land to be discovered and these padroes to be set up by D. Cão, an esquire of his household.” See Ravenstein, 1900: 4, 625–55. 3. For a recent and overarching history of the Democratic
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