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13182 FIG. 43 (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 1906). Ex Frans Snels, Laren, Netherlands; purchased by supporters of the Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, 1906. Wood, iron, resin, cowrie shell, animal hide and hair (colobus monkey tail?), ceramic, plant fi ber, pigment. H: 106 cm. Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam (10633). FIG. 42 (above): 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 1912). Purchased from the Buffala family by Dr. Gaston Daniel, near Lukula, before 1912; donated to the Museum of Belgian Congo, Tervuren, 1912; fi rst published, 1914. Wood (Vitex thonneri De Wild.), iron, resin, cowrie shell, animal hide and hair, ceramic, plant fi ber, textile, pigment. H: 132 cm. Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium (EO.0.0.7777). REFERENCES Bassani, Ezio. African Art and Artefacts in European Collections, 1400–1800. London: British Museum Press, 2000. ———. “Due grandi artisti Yombe: Il Maestro della meternitàe Roselli-Lorenzini e il Maestro della meternitàeter Briey.” Critica d’arte africana 1, July –September 1981. ———. “Kongo Nail Fetishes from the Chiloango River Area,” African Arts 10, no. 3, April 1977. Bittremieux, Léo. Mayombsch Idioticon. Ghent: Drukkerij “Erasmus,” 1922. Brásio, Antonio. Monumenta missionaria africana: Africa occidental, 15 vols. Lisbon: Agencia Geral do Ultramar, Divisao de Publicaçöes e Biblioteca, 1952–88. de Campos, Evaristo. “Monografi a de Cabinda: Origem dos povos do Congo e, particularmente do enclave e distrito de Cabinda,” Portugal em Africa: Revista da cultura missionaria, 2nd ser., 17, 1960. Guyer, Jane I. “Wealth in People, Wealth in Things— Introduction.” The Journal of African History 36, no. 1 (1995), pp. 83–90. Guyer, Jane I., and Samuel M. Eno Belinga. “Wealth in People as Wealth in Knowledge: Accumulation and Composition in Equatorial Africa.” The Journal of African History 36, no. 1 (1995), pp. 91–120.


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