“Kongo: Power and Majesty”

PART.2

5f39ddac 7729 416b 8a99 4440d55081eb 668x1020Power figure: Standing Female with Child. Photograph: National Museum of World Cultures, Leiden

A490855e 60e2 4a3f a2f8 ec8f46844984 620x2040Standard of Saint Augustine, circa 1482. Photograph: Carlos Ladeira/Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa

Ac0e7ed1 1fa7 4bc0 bb82 cd872e5532fe 875x1020Prestige cap (mpu), 16th-17-century. Photograph: The National Museum of Denmark, Ethnographic Collections

A741bee7 cbf8 41f6 8c69 28d323af27c0 636x1020Power figure: seated female nursing child (nkisi). Photograph: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Steven Kossak, The Kronos Collections, New York