Fetish Dog with nails - Bakongo - DR Congo

Art is rich in the Kongo country. Within the stylistic corpus of objects from the DRC, many depict animals, including dogs. Indeed, in Kongo iconography, dogs are endowed with four eyes for this world and two for the other, which explains their great clairvoyance. The Bakisi are earth spirits; objects only have value if they are consecrated by the Nganga, who add magical and various ingredients to them. For effectiveness, the invocation or nkisi must be accompanied by incantation and sacrifice. A resinous base, a kind of reliquary closed with a mirror possessing magical properties of the Kongo people.
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There have been restorations since the original country.