Art-what is a Minkisi?
Minkisi (from KiKongo, sing. nkisi) are a general class of Kongo religious sculpture. [ Collected as "nail fetishes" by English and Belgian colonizers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, these figures played an important role in a (now lost) ritual system.
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