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cmaafrican.bsky.social
Figurine https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.441
The Delenne’s stumbled upon this group of seven anthropomorphic figurines (2010.437–43) in an antiques shop in Nice during a holiday in the south of France in 1961. The carvings carry paperboard labels with inscriptions in French that indicate their ethnic and geographic provenance as well as some other details. Stemming from the Kongo region in West Central Africa, these seven sculptures feature a variety of gestures and poses, the use of mirror or glass for the eyes, and a red-white-black color scheme. They belong to the broad category of <em>minkisi</em> (singular <em>nkisi</em>), containers for medicines in which an ancestral spirit was believed to reside. Two of the group are minkisi of the <em>nduda</em> type, characterized by the attached "guns" loaded with gunpowder and used to shoot witches.
January 29, 2026 at 5:03 PM
cmaafrican.bsky.social
Figurine https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.437
The Delennes stumbled upon this group of seven anthropomorphic figurines (2010.437-443) in an antiques shop in Nice during a holiday in the south of France in 1961. The carvings carry paperboard labels with inscriptions in French that indicate their ethnic and geographic provenance as well as some other details. Stemming from the Kongo region in West Central Africa, these seven sculptures feature a variety of gestures and poses; the use of mirror or glass for the eyes; and a red-white-black color scheme. They belong to the broad category of minkisi (sing. nkisi), containers for medicines in which an ancestral spirit was believed to reside. Two of the group are minkisi of the nduda type, characterized by the attached "guns" loaded with gunpowder and used to shoot witches.
January 29, 2026 at 11:10 AM
bmafricanarts.bsky.social
Standing Female Figure (Nkisi) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2960
Standing female figure, light-colored heavy wood, eyebrows and coiffure incised mirrored eyes, and mirror in belly, bead necklace. Hands at hips. CONDITION: Cracks in body.
January 25, 2026 at 7:53 PM
lftofoli.bsky.social
Favor não esquecer de Nzazi, o nkisi bantu dos raios, reverenciado nos candomblés Angola.
January 25, 2026 at 6:56 PM
elisapolonio.bsky.social
Aqui, é importante separar as coisas:
isso NÃO é cristianismo institucional pré-laicismo, pré-Vaticano II, ferramenta colonial.

No culto Angola,Jesus e Maria não são figuras históricas europeizadas.

São lidos como forças espirituais, uma leitura que dialoga com a ideia do que chamamos de nkisi.
January 24, 2026 at 1:13 PM
elisapolonio.bsky.social
No meu caso, que sou do candomblé e minha casa não é aberta para giras, é quando damos obrigação para orixá/nkisi/vodun ou nossos exus.

Isso quem determina é o pai ou mãe de santo via jogo de búzios.
January 23, 2026 at 9:04 PM
slamartsafrica.bsky.social
Power Figure (nkisi nkondi) https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/59175/
Power Figure (nkisi nkondi)
January 23, 2026 at 6:30 PM
elisapolonio.bsky.social
(Lemba é o nkisi que "sincretiza" com Oxalá)

quem é mais próximo de mim sabe q estou passando por um momento angustiante na vida, correndo muita gira para algumas coisas se realizarem, mas tudo parece muito parado.

daí esses dias eu lembrei de Kitembu (Tempo) e comentei com minha mãe de santo.
January 23, 2026 at 5:23 PM
thequietus.com
'Built entirely from phonograph recordings predating 1910, captured in Cameroon and Papua New Guinea, Anomaly Index shows background noise is capable of being both spectral and utterly present all at once'

Nkisi - Anomaly Index - Spool’s Out: #Cassette Reviews for January

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Anomaly Index by NKISI album cover. A very pale greyish blue image of a small man made structure with a ladder for access.
January 21, 2026 at 4:30 PM
thequietus.com
Growling wax cylinders, spooky flutes, world-building synth nocturnes. Daryl Worthington reviews the first cassettes of 2026 and the ones that snuck through in the end of 2025

Spool’s Out: #Cassette Reviews for January

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Anomaly Index by NKISI album cover. A very pale greyish blue image of a small man made structure with a ladder for access.
January 20, 2026 at 12:00 PM
rocknrollkun.bsky.social
今週のオススメ新作アルバムまとめ

Hop、Carrie DeCunzo Mirande、Pullman、Abosahar、Filippo Ansaldi & Simone Sims Longo、Maryam Rahmani & David Esser、NKISI、Mariusz Szypura。なかなか興味深い音楽ばかりでした🌀
アルバムタイトル、アーティスト名、ジャケット 、短評まとめ画像。内容はリプ欄のnoteにて
January 20, 2026 at 11:00 AM
rocknrollkun.bsky.social
5 Star Cowboy Deluxe/bringlife, PICNIC YOU & 没 a.k.a NGS
The Greatest Hits/Christian Love Forum
高橋香衣伝統芸能再創造集「出会いと融合」/髙橋香衣
⊚ ⧂⫯ ☌/goo
erased mornings/the humble bee
Anomaly Index/NKISI
!OK!/Khadija Al Hanafi
January 19, 2026 at 9:54 AM
cmaafrican.bsky.social
Male Figure https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.432
A typical example of a type of <em>nkisi</em> or spirit container known as <em>nkondi</em> (from the verb <em>konda</em>, "to hunt") this figure once held a spear in its raised arm. The empty stomach cavity, which would have contained the medicinal substances that gave the sculpture particular powers, indicates that the figure may have been discarded before being sold. Each iron nail, screw, and wedge—a combination of both local smiths' work and European imports—represents a case that was brought to the ritual specialist (<em>nganga</em>) for diagnosis and intervention. The action of driving iron objects into the nkisi was intended to arouse it, enabling it to see the intentions of the defendant's enemy.
January 19, 2026 at 8:44 AM
ordofibonacci.bsky.social
Power Figure: Male (Nkisi)
Smarthistory
youtu.be/H9iy5TTALBQ?...
Power Figure: Male (Nkisi)
YouTube video by Smarthistory
youtu.be
January 19, 2026 at 4:56 AM
cmaafrican.bsky.social
Figurine https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.439
The Delenne’s stumbled upon this group of seven anthropomorphic figurines (2010.437-443) in an antiques shop in Nice during a holiday in the south of France in 1961. The carvings carry paperboard labels with inscriptions in French that indicate their ethnic and geographic provenance as well as some other details. Stemming from the Kongo region in West Central Africa, these seven sculptures feature a variety of gestures and poses; the use of mirror or glass for the eyes; and a red-white-black color scheme. They belong to the broad category of <em>minkisi</em> (sing. <em>nkisi</em>), containers for medicines in which an ancestral spirit was believed to reside. Two of the group are <em>minkisi</em> of the <em>nduda</em> type, characterized by the attached "guns" loaded with gunpowder and used to shoot witches.
January 18, 2026 at 8:25 AM
rocknrollkun.bsky.social
高橋香衣伝統芸能再創造集「出会いと融合」/髙橋香衣
⊚ ⧂⫯ ☌/goo
erased mornings/the humble bee
Anomaly Index/NKISI
Chopin Residue/Mariusz Szypura
撲立 へちまの音楽 - EP/フライングダイミョウ
January 17, 2026 at 2:31 PM
rocknrollkun.bsky.social
2025年12月ベストアルバムです❗️

Best Albums of December 2025

UNBEATABLE、claire rousay、松丸契、Siero、5 Star Cowboy特に良かったです❗️ Christian Love Forum、髙橋香衣、goo、the humble bee、NKISI、Chopin Residueもめちゃ聴きました❗️
アルバムジャケット36枚まとめ画像、内容はリプ欄
January 17, 2026 at 2:31 PM
bmafricanarts.bsky.social
Figure of Standing Male (Nkisi) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/4888
Male figure, with shiny brown patina except on face, which has matt brown surface. Two mud, red iron, and resin masses (bilongo) embedded with one cowrie shell, one on forehead, one on chest. Proportions of head, torso, and legs relatively equal; slightly crouching position. Face lined with shallow horizontal incisions, nose with incised center line and flared nostrils; crescent-shaped ears; button eyes. Trapezoid-shaped, flaring beard, also side whiskers and moustaches. Arms bend, without defined hands, placed on stomach. Small male sexual organ; blockish feet without toes. CONDITION: Long vertical cracks in front of torso, extending from neck to upper leg; cracks on side of head and on base. Moustache tips broken off; tip of left foot chipped off, top of right foot appears to have been mended.
January 16, 2026 at 1:29 PM
cmaafrican.bsky.social
Male Figure https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.433
Its size, facial features, feather headdress (as worn by a local <em>nganga</em> or ritual specialist), and hangings of cloth seem to indicate that this <em>nkisi</em> figure in Vili style belongs to a type called <em>nduda</em>. While the hangings incorporate the typical shells, trade beads, knotted cloth strips, and small horns filled with medicine, they do not include the central symbol of the classic nduda: "night guns," or small grass tubes extending from clay or resin and loaded with gunpowder that was discharged against witches. Unless its night guns were lost during the course of its life history, this nkisi may instead be an example of a more general type called<em> mpanzu</em>, whose functions included protection and self-defense.
January 10, 2026 at 4:05 PM
pudimdecarne.bsky.social
Amigo, de qual vertente? Orixá ou vodun e nkisi também?.

Tem o do Pierre Verger, com fotos que ele tirou também e alguns itans, é de tradição do candomblé Ketu

Tem o Mitologia dos Orixás, que tem uma seleção boa também!
January 9, 2026 at 7:53 PM
cmaafrican.bsky.social
Figurine https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.438
The Delenne’s stumbled upon this group of seven anthropomorphic figurines (2010.437–43) in an antiques shop in Nice during a holiday in the south of France in 1961. The carvings carry paperboard labels with inscriptions in French that indicate their ethnic and geographic provenance as well as some other details. Stemming from the Kongo region in West Central Africa, these seven sculptures feature a variety of gestures and poses, the use of mirror or glass for the eyes, and a red-white-black color scheme. They belong to the broad category of <em>minkisi</em> (singular <em>nkisi</em>), containers for medicines in which an ancestral spirit was believed to reside. Two of the group are minkisi of the <em>nduda</em> type, characterized by the attached "guns" loaded with gunpowder and used to shoot witches.<br><br>Two guns protrude horizontally on both sides of the cylindrical medicine pack on the belly, covered with a round piece of mirror. White clay almost completely covers the figure, referring to the realm of the ancestors.
January 9, 2026 at 7:51 PM
elisapolonio.bsky.social
não o conhecia. Fui ver e amei o post dele sobre Nkisi Mavambo ❤️

agradeço demais por falar!
January 8, 2026 at 5:31 PM
malcolm-eu.bsky.social
Na minha compreensão vodun, orixá e nkisi são sim imortais, mas eles morrem quando sua cultura e fundamentos não são transmitidos, até que não existam mais. Ou perdemos o contado com eles, de forma que venham a ser esquecidos, deixam de existir para nós. Essa é uma responsabilidade que nos cabe.
January 6, 2026 at 3:34 PM
wwrrssddrrwwss.bsky.social
I’m in the launderette and I’m listening to ‘anomaly index’ by NKISI
Anomaly Index, by NKISI
2 track album
nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:27 PM
edulq.bsky.social
Iba a rehacer un hilo de hace muchos años de tw antes de borrarlo, pero mira me da pereza. Leeros esto que tiene más info y es muy interesante
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nkisi
Nkisi - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
es.wikipedia.org
January 4, 2026 at 12:17 PM