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Divination Implement ("Galukoshi")

20th century
20th C.
Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kwango (Western) area
4 3/4 x 3 5/16 x 31 1/2 in. (12.07 x 8.41 x 80.01 cm)

By (primary)
Artist unknown

Culture/People: Pende peoples

Medium: Wood, raffia, bamboo, feathers, and metal maskette

Credit Line: Gift of Janine and Michael Heymann

Accession Number: 1993.103

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Provenance

Formerly in the collection of Charles Davis (New Orleans); Collected in the field in Zaire by Dr. William Bertrand, an Epidemiologist at Tulane University

Bibliography

"Robbins and Nooter, African Art in American Collections, 1989, no. 1025, p. 402.
Dagan, Emothions in Motion, Theatrical Puppets and Masks from Black Africa, 1990, no. 118c, p. 96."

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Pende

Bapende
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Pende (African people)
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Congolese (Democratic Republic of Congo style)

Congoese (Democratic Republic of Congo style)
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Zairian
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Belgian Congo
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Belgisch Congo
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Congo Belge
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Congo Free State
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Zaire
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Zairean
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Congo (Democratic Republic)
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ZaÔre
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Kongoese (Democratic Republic of Congo style)
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traditional medicine
Used in the West for sets of health beliefs and practices that developed within the culture of a particular ethnic or geographic group of people, distinct from modern Western medicine; commonly includes herbal and homeopathic remedies, religious or spiritual ritual, and an holistic approach to patients. [February 1996 descriptor added.]

indigenous medicine
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ethnomedicine
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folk medicine
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healing, traditional
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folk-medicine
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medicine, traditional
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ethnic medicine
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healers
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traditional healing
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medicine, ethnic
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medicine, folk
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medicine, indigenous
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divination
Art or practice of foreseeing future events or obtaining secret knowledge through divine sources, omens, or oracles; it is based on the belief that revelations are offered to humans in extrarational forms of knowledge. CCE [November 1994 alternate term added. January 1992 descriptor added.]

divinatory
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diviners
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masks (costume)
Coverings for all or part of the face, usually with openings for the eyes and sometimes the mouth; worn to hide or alter the identity of the wearer or for protection.

mask (costume)
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mask, goalie's
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masks
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