A small Bakongo/Vili power fetish figure

A small Bakongo/Vili power fetish figure, with a large glass-closed medicine box placed in front of the stomach, painted glass inlays in the eye-sockets, on the back of the sculpture several attachments like animal skins, an antelope-horn, a large snail-house etc; heavy, hard, reddish wood. Fetishes of this type mostly served to deter and avert the "evil eye",

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Height: 23 cm
Length: 29 cm
Weight: 550 g