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Sunday at the Met | Kongo: Power and Majesty

Power Figure (Nkisi N'Kondi: Mangaaka), 19th century, inventoried 1898. Kongo peoples; Yombe group, Chiloango River region, Cabinda, Angola. Wood, iron, resin, ceramic, plant fiber, textile, cowrie shell, animal hide and hair, pigment; H. 46 1/2 in. (118 cm), W. 18 1/8 in. (46 cm), D. 13 3/4 in. (35 cm). Manchester Museum, University of Manchester (0.9321/1)

Power Figure (Nkisi N’Kondi: Mangaaka), 19th century, inventoried 1898. Kongo peoples; Yombe group, Chiloango River region, Cabinda, Angola. Wood, iron, resin, ceramic, plant fiber, textile, cowrie shell, animal hide and hair, pigment. Manchester Museum, University of Manchester (0.9321/1)

Examine Kongo society’s history and artistic traditions in the context of changing relations between Africa and Europe over half a millennium.

Remarks by Faustin Linyekula, choreographer; Jo Ractliffe, artist; and David Van Reybrouck, author; followed by discussion moderated by Philip Gourevitch, journalist and staff writer, The New Yorker.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Kongo: Power and Majesty.











When: Sun., Oct. 18, 2015 at 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Where: Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave.
212-535-7710
Price: Free with museum admission
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Power Figure (Nkisi N'Kondi: Mangaaka), 19th century, inventoried 1898. Kongo peoples; Yombe group, Chiloango River region, Cabinda, Angola. Wood, iron, resin, ceramic, plant fiber, textile, cowrie shell, animal hide and hair, pigment; H. 46 1/2 in. (118 cm), W. 18 1/8 in. (46 cm), D. 13 3/4 in. (35 cm). Manchester Museum, University of Manchester (0.9321/1)

Power Figure (Nkisi N’Kondi: Mangaaka), 19th century, inventoried 1898. Kongo peoples; Yombe group, Chiloango River region, Cabinda, Angola. Wood, iron, resin, ceramic, plant fiber, textile, cowrie shell, animal hide and hair, pigment. Manchester Museum, University of Manchester (0.9321/1)

Examine Kongo society’s history and artistic traditions in the context of changing relations between Africa and Europe over half a millennium.

Remarks by Faustin Linyekula, choreographer; Jo Ractliffe, artist; and David Van Reybrouck, author; followed by discussion moderated by Philip Gourevitch, journalist and staff writer, The New Yorker.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Kongo: Power and Majesty.

Buy tickets/get more info now