Kongo Power Figure
nkisi n'kondi mangaaka

Kongo Power Figure n'kisi n'kondi mangaaka - now in the collection of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - image 1

Kongo peoples, Chiloango River region, Democratic Republic of the Congo or Angola
Wood, resin, metal, enamel
Second half of the 19th century
Height: 118 cm

Provenance
Lore Kegel, Hamburg
Boris Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg

Selected Exhibition History
1992-1993 Munich, Villa Stuck, Gods Spirits Ancestors: African Sculpture from Private German Collections
Permanent Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2008 [Acc. No.2008.30]

Selected Publication History
Karl-Ferdinand Schaedler, Gods Spirits Ancestors. African Sculpture from Private German Collections, Munich, 1992, p 188, cat 152
Karl-Ferdinand Schaedler, Afrikanische Kunst. Von der Frühzeit bis heute, Munich, 1997, fig 164

Acquired from Entwistle by
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Kongo Power Figure n'kisi n'kondi mangaaka - now in the collection of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - image 1 Kongo Power Figure n'kisi n'kondi mangaaka - now in the collection of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - image 2