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niombo
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Motivord, engelska
Niombo
Värde, Ämnesord
niombo
Beskrivning - engelska
Large figures that were manufactured starting from the body of the deceased who makes up the central core, wrapped in vegetable fibers. Some reconstructions can be admired in the ethnographic museum of Stockholm and in the Georg Baselitz's collection of African arts. Traditionally, the sculptor finished the NIOMBO painting the original tattoos of the deceased and some other ideograms on the chest of the puppet, real messages for the afterlife. Congo, Bwende ethnicity.
Referens - källa
Flodén, Svante August (1933). "Tata" Flodén berättar: Kongominnen. 1. Stockholm: Svenska missionsförbundet
Källor - http
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libris.kb.se
Widman, Ragnar, 1967. The Niombo cult among the Babwende. Monograph series / The National Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm, Sweden: 11.
Källor - http
libris.kb.se
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archive.org
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books.google.se
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webbsok.mikromarc.se
Källor - http
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