Yombe Bone Fetish Figure

White eyes, bared teeth and a dark patch at the chest on a figure barely larger than a hand.

This fetish figure is Yombe, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo or Angola, Central Africa. It is wood, glass and bone. Power figures among the Yombe and other Kongo peoples are generally associated with healing and protection, their potency often linked to added materials. The figure stands on a small oval base, arms close at the sides. Pale inset eyes sit under a domed cap marked red. The mouth shows small teeth, and the torso is covered with a dark, crusted surface. It is 1.75 inches wide, 3 deep and 5.5 high.

Small in size, and in no way small in presence.