Seeing the spirit: The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. (African American collection, Richmond, Virginia) (Advertising Supplement: Virginia)

From: American Visions | Date: June 1, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

Gazing at the maternity figure carved early in this century by an unknown Kongo artist, a 14-year-old junior high school student said, "I see both my past and my future in this piece." In fact, the wooden sculpture that seized the young man's attention speaks to our past and our future. For while the work overtly proclaims that its subject is family, the family to which it alludes is much broader than just the mother and child so gracefully carved. The figure is an nkisi, or power statue, a spiritual totem whose cavities in the head and back were once filled with special ...

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