"NKISI TSI"



BABOON SKULL, WOVEN STRAW, NATURAL RESIN

This genius of nature, also called "nkisi Tsi", comes from the region of Mayombe, a mountainous forest in southern Congo. It represents the spirit of the ancestors, who first delimited and occupied the territory of the clan.

It is composed of a baboon skull encassed in a ball of woven straw. The interior of this sphere, encloses a small bone or stone, which serves probably to reinforce the magical charge.

Some of these fetishs can also be made with a gorilla skull. In general, they are of Vili origin.




Height: 9 inch
Price:$ 1900
Ref number : T-K-005
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