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Kongo Articles

These articles provide information about the Kongo objects in UMMA's African Collection.

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Margaret Grace VanderVliet

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March 18, 2020 9:15 a.m.

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"Power Figure (Nkisi Nkondi)"

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"The Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas"

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"There Are Many Kongo Worlds: Particularities of Magico-Religious Beliefs among the Vili and the Yombe of Congo-Brazzaville"

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"Kongo: Power and Majesty"

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"The Recently Acquired Kongo Mangaaka Power Figure"

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"Northern Kongo Ancestor Figures"

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"Art From Africa: Long Steps Never Broke a Back"

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Nkisi Power Figure Article

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This print is made of colorful forms and words in bright letters and bold fonts, arranged on a white background. Block letters display words in a mixed-up format, some upside down, some on their sides. On left side there is a section with smaller writing in yellowish ink on grey.<br /><br />
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To the Lovings, new hope i love you much (most beautiful darling) more than anyone on earth and i like you better than everything in the sky--sunlight and singing welcome your coming although winter may be everywhere with such a silence and such a darkness no one can quite begin to guess (except my life) the true time of the year-- and if what calls itself a world should have the luck to hear singing (or glimpse such sunlight as will leap higher than high through gayer than gayest someone's heart at your each nearness) everyone certainly would (my most beautiful darling) believe in nothing but love. cummings

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Biography of Ben Shahn

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World War II Images

Four men in military uniforms on horseback look out directly at the viewer.

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Can You See Me? : The Effect of “Blinding" The Photographic Subject

This photograph depicts a view of a city sidewalk with pedestrians walking in front of a bar. In the middle of the frame is a phone booth with a woman inside, talking on the phone.

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Acts of Indifference

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Faces of the Civil Rights Movement: An Exhibition of Selected Images from Danny Lyon’s time with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

A group of African Americans praying while kneeling on a street. There is concrete pavement and a brick building behind them.

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Nkisi Power Figure Article

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Anton Refregier - Study of a Man's Head for History of California

This drawing shows the head of a man. Sketched lines with shading around cheeks and eyes, which are closed, create the visage. A faintly visible hat is sketched on the head. The drawing is signed (u.r.) "Anton Refregier." It may also say "San Francisco" although the handwriting is not clear.

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Early Modern European Portraits and Self-Fashioning

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Nkisi Power Figure Article

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Wood-carved, standing male figure 40 inches in height. Its shoulders and torso are impaled with iron blades, nails and fragments. The torso is long, arms at side are bent at elbow and hands rest on lower abdomen. The right wrist wears a bracelet with attachments. The legs are truncated, with twisted metal anklet on right foot. The face is naturalistic, the mouth slightly open, the nose long and narrow with slightly flared nostrils. Eyes are almond shaped, may have had inlay that is now gone. The top of the head shows a tiered, "layer cake like" coiffure. The figure has a long and deep crack down the entire length of its left side, from top of the head to the left ankle.

Vili (Kongo)
Power Figure
wood, iron nails, blades and fragments, and fiber cord
40 3/4 in x 13 3/4 in x 10 1/16 in (103.5 cm x 35 cm x 25.5 cm);40 3/4 in x 13 3/4 in x 10 1/16 in (103.5 cm x 35 cm x 25.5 cm)
Gift of Candis and Helmut Stern

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Archives in Iron: Article by Andrew Gurstelle.

Docents often use this article when touring the nkisi power figure and discuss the art historical process of dating an object.

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Gurstelle — by Margaret Grace VanderVliet (November 17 2017 @ 10:57 am)
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"Power Figure (Nkisi Nkondi)"
<p>by Kathleen Pickford Berzock   &n...

"The Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas"
<p>by Kate Ezra, Phillip Guddemi, and Julie Jones</...

"There Are Many Kongo Worlds: Particularities of Magico-Religious Beliefs among the Vili and the Yombe of Congo-Brazzaville"
<p>by Dunja Hersak</p>

"Kongo: Power and Majesty"
<p>by Alisa LaGamma</p>

"The Recently Acquired Kongo Mangaaka Power Figure"
<p>by Alisa LaGamma</p>

"Northern Kongo Ancestor Figures"
<p>by Kavuna Simon and Wyatt MacGaffey</p>

"Art From Africa: Long Steps Never Broke a Back"
<p>by Pamela McClusky</p>

Nkisi Power Figure Article

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New Hope
<p>Resource Authors: Ayla Ahmed, Lily McCann, Suzy ...

Biography of Ben Shahn

World War II Images

Can You See Me? : The Effect of “Blinding" The Photographic Subject
<p>Sean Gillikin</p>

Acts of Indifference
<p><span style="font-size: 14px;">Tyler Dittenbir</...

Faces of the Civil Rights Movement: An Exhibition of Selected Images from Danny Lyon’s time with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
<p><span style="font-size: 14px;">Tuhin Chakraborty...

Nkisi Power Figure Article

Anton Refregier - Study of a Man's Head for History of California

Early Modern European Portraits and Self-Fashioning

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Power Figure (2005/1.192)

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