Power Figure: Male (Nkisi)
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Power Figure: Male (Nkisi), 19th-mid 20th century, Kongo peoples, wood, pigment, nails, cloth, beads, shells, arrows, leather, nuts and twine, 58.8 x 26 x 25.4 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Speakers: Dr. Peri Klemm and Dr. Beth Harris
I bought a nice Nkisi from a store in Long Beach for a fair price. He has a couple extra nails already and fresh medicine. I encourage everyone of African descent to visit more African stores so WE can narrate the stories of Nkisi, and the rest of secretive Congo practices that continue even in America with dedicated elders and youth trying hard to preserve these medicines and such.
a "nice" nkisi from long beach....go to Africa to learn the narrative first
@Jennifer Perry That’s so nice! :))
@@cjames2925 how do you know they aren't already african? Stop assuming!
This word Nkisi in Nguni traditions is Nkosi which means Chief or Chief Spirit, Nganga is Inyanga in Nguni languages of the horn which loosely translate to Spiritual healer in a traditional sense. These two are interchangeable at times where the Chief of the village is also a healer or the Traditional Leader in a Spiritual sense. The Natal hole presents the gut which is regarded mostly as center for Spirituality or where an intuitive eye is located. The human third eye is in the gut not where is normally shown on the forehead. The nails are then many manifestations of presiding spirits of Native awakening called channeling or nativity...
Nkosi also means Lion in kikongo and is one of the main Nkisi of the Kongo-Angola Candomblé in Brazil
Wow fascinating! I didn't know that about the gut.
Nkisi are still being built, to this day.
NOt from the Democratic rep of Congo... actually from the Empire of Kongo....please rectified guys...Angola two congos and up to cameroon but this specific one was in the particular area which is located in the DRC... KONGO is the Peolple whom belongs in that main Tribe which are composed of several tribes..,.as I am a pure KONGO, my language is KI KONGo which makes me a MU KONGO.
@NeKongo lol... Did we had adequate border.. lol if not then they were trading thennn Yaounde sounds close to YAYANDI well etc...they might be a Link somewhgere though we are talking about the GREAT KINGDOWN OF KONGO....not DRC OR Just CoNGo
To me this word Ko-Ngo means the spirited one or the one who is present, -Ngo is a root word for Ngoma meaning that which has sound or soul, and so Ko- is a prefix which initiate this sound or soul. This Ko- also attaches the one who possesses or denotes that which contains as in a vessel or body, we have a word KoKo(the grand/main)/Kokwana(possessor) which is translated as grand-mother in English which has variations of Gogo(Nguni) or Shosho(Kikuyu). Kongo is a proper name or word for Black/African...a soulful being or a sound man.
Ashe!
That’s Awesome!, I just yesterday bought one a little like this, but it’s not a man figure… it’s and alligator, or a dog…. Black, with nails,rope,and glass… do you think it comes from the same region/tribe ?
I’d really love to learn everything I can about it because it’s very fascinating to me.
@@andrewgarratt5191you probably have what would be called an Nkisi Kozo🙏🐕
Kongo started first in vungu in DRC not republic of Congo or Angola they spread there
I have been a Nganga and fetish priest for over 16 years, it's a nice video. (NB: The Nkisi also talks through trance and divination)
Let link up send your mail please
Love the videos
The Ba Kongo people started in Angola Zaire Mbaza kongo
they started in kongo. thats it
Angola was mistakenly named by Portuguese Ngola people are Kongos as well... etc the KINGDOM of KONGO were from angola up to south Cameroon. hope you need to do some research about Angola that was a white actually a white supremacy to confused the history...etc
This Video was recommended and linked by "Nicola White Mudlark - Tideline Art" RUclips Channel after she found one of these figures on the Thames Foreshore. Fascinating.
I know you are with us father you says we can not suffer again
Lots of new terms here: Nganga, nkisi, mooyo.
I'd love to see this object in action - especially for going after evil-doers. 😤 I wonder if this was the predecessor of voodoo dolls, but I don't know enough about the latter to make a real connection there.
The cameo by the figure next to this one was unexpectedly hilarious with those eyes and the undersized thing it's riding on. 😅
Mpa maa na him as father of the kingdom
Dope
Cool
i have one for sale
who call i talk to about it ?
Do more video