ORIGINAL AUTHENTIC POWER FIGURE NUCHU KUNA GUNA SHAMAN WOOD STATUE DOLL ETHNIX For Sale

GUNA NUCHU WOOD DOLL SHAMAN POWER FIGURE MEDICINAL HEALING STATUE

Type of Object: WOODEN figure

Ethnic Group: KUNA GUNA

Country of Origin: KUNA YALA, PANAMA

Materials: WOOD, natural pigment

Approximate Age: recent

Dimensions: 8.5\" by 2.0\" by 2.0\"

Weight: 4.6 oz;138 grams; 0.31 lbs

Overall Condition: Tribally Used (crack in the balsa wood head)

Additional Information: This figure that represents a medicine man or Nele. The spirit of a vivo or an alive figure is summoned in the healing process, generally for soul retrieval to restore the balance of health to an afflicted individual. The process is accompanied by a shaman\'s healing chant and the burning of cacao beans in a clay sensor underneath the patients hammock. Nuchus are not made to sell...so it was a rare opportunity to purchase this and a few others. This figure came from the Island of Rio Mandingo (Carti). & Handling Detail:
US BUYERS:
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INTERNATIONAL BUYERS:
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As ETHNIX has become an established physical entity on Broadway in the heart of Manhattan, its origin had its inspiration from the Secret Museum of Mankind, which was an anonymous collection of ethnographic and risque images of earths inhabitants throughout the four corners of the earth published by Manhattan house in the 1930′s. This fascination in my youth cast the die for my future worldwide travels and ethnix was to become the funding source for research and the collection of artifacts. As one reviewer described the book… The Secret Museum of Mankind reveals a lost world-and -the fading faces of the indigenous humanity that once covered the globe. Adventurer transport the reader to another era. The native cultures of America, Africa, Asia, Europe, and the islands of the seas were so fascinating as they existed upon the book’s first publication nearly a century ago. Here revealed, by a thousand black-and-white photographs with captions that reflect the unabashed curiosity and marked sensationalism of the early-twentieth-century are the astonishing variety of rituals, religions, customs, physical decorations, and dress of the world’s native cultures. the elaborate costuming, the intricate and painstaking bodily manipulations, the fascinating practices of he cultures whose native expressions and lifestyles have unfortunately suffered the destructive advancing hands of the twentieth century.