Medicine Image
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Feb 1891
name: label: Collector
content: Heli Chatelain
label: Donor Name
content: Heli Chatelain
notes: label: Notes
content: From cards: "To protect from witchcraft. Red feathers of a parrot, skin of a mole, called "sute", with mixture inside. Little basket on arm of image is called "ri-onzo" or "ri-bonzo". It is always small like sample, is often carried around neck or among goods. Loin-cloth of "ma-bela" palm fiber, natural hair on lower abdomen. [handwritten] (Ma-luiyi not shown as a tribe on Chatelain's map, not elsewhere. This is in the area of the tribe called [hard to decipher] by Murdock." "[handwritten] identified as Suku by Wm Fagg 3-5-63 The term "Maluiyi" menas merely "People of the Luiyi River." Since this affluent of the Kwango runs chiefly thru the territory of the Bangala of northern Angola, this specimen is ascribed tentatively to the Bangala (not to be confused with the BaNgala of the Congo). Fagg's identification as "Suku" would place the specimen in a neighboring area north of Bangala territory, and the two may be very similar in style. --G.D.G. 3/19/64" "Image, "Ki-teka".--Wooden image decorated with parrot feathers and skin of a mole containing a charm mixture. Height, 9 5/8 inches. MA-LUIYI NEGROES [sic], Luiyi River, Africa 151,736 Collected by Rev. HELI CHATELAIN. A "medicine" image, carried suspended to the neck to protect the wearer from witchcraft."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 29 Oct 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Cuango, Luiyi River, Angola, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ngala
label: Culture
content: (Ba Ngala)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 024070
label: USNM Number
content: E151736-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Medicine Object
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 24.447 cm