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Yaka Fetish with Lizard Foot
Mixed media fetish figure from the Yaka people of southwestern Congo. Authentic, rare piece traditionally used for healing and protective purposes. The presence of a fetish in one’s domicile demonstrated the purging of evil spirits from that space. A diviner or spiritual authority would endow the object with powers through the application and use of magicalia and other consecrated properties; the efficacy of a fetish object could be determined by these supplements. The metal chain wrapped around this figure’s neck fastens to its body the foot of a monitor lizard in addition to other hanging, magical appendages. Ritual encrustation evidences the personal use of this figure in sacred rites. Featuring both earth pigments and Reckitt’s blue commercial paint.
23.5″
