"All minkisi, whether in the form of wooden figures, snail shells, raffia bags, or clay pots, are containers for "medicines" that empowers them" (MacGaffey, 43). "The usual containers included the shells of large snails, antelope horns, cloth bags, gourds, and clay pots. Although minkisi in museums are usually wooden figurines and statues, containers of this kind may well have been the minority" (MacGaffey, 63)...
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Although minkisi in museums are usually wooden figurines and statues, containers of this kind may well have been the minority" (MacGaffey, 63). Without medicines, the minkisi are nothing, they are not alive, nor can they perform their functions. "To BaKongo, all exceptional powers result from some sort of communication with the dead" (MacGaffey, 59)...
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