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Kongo Test test test FIGS. 40a & b (facing page right): Power fi gure, nkisi n’kondi: Mangaaka. Kongo peoples, Yombe group, Chiloango River region, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Republic of the Congo; or Cabinda, Angola, 19th century (inventoried 1906). Ex-collection: Collected by Carmelo Scardino; acquired by the Museo Preistorico Etnografi co Luigi Pigorini, 1906. Wood, iron, resin, cowrie shell, animal hide and hair (monkey?), ceramic, plant fi ber, textile, pigment. H: 112 cm. MiBACT—Polo Museale del Lazio, Museo Preistorico Etnografi co Luigi Pigorini, Rome (75909). FIGS. 41a & b (above and left): Power fi gure, nkisi n’kondi: Mangaaka. Kongo peoples; Yombe group, Chiloango River region, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Republic of the Congo; or Cabinda, Angola. 19th century (inventoried 1904). Collected by Robert Visser, Chiloango River region; Robert Visser, Dusseldorf, until 1904; acquired by Linden-Museum Stuttgart, 1904–71; by exchange to Ethnografi sche Studiensammlung, Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, 1971. Wood, iron, resin, cowrie shell, ceramic, plant fi ber, textile, gourd, pigment. H: 110 cm. Ethnografi sche Studiensammlung, Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, Johannes Gutenberg Universität (JGU), Mainz, Germany (2594). 13171


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