Wood Nail Fetish

So many iron blades bristle from it that the figure looks feathered.

This nail fetish is wood and glass. Nail figures are generally associated with the Kongo peoples of Central Africa, where driving metal into the wood was often thought to bind an oath or call on the figure's protective power. A square, mask-like face with round eyes looks straight out from a crown of iron. One arm is raised beside the head. Blades and nails cover nearly every surface of the torso, around a framed glass panel at the chest. Two plain columnar legs carry the weight. It is 16 inches wide and 54 high.

It has more metal on it than most toolboxes.