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ISSN 1941-8450
Journal of Religion & Society
Supplement Series The Kripke Center Supplement 7 (2011)
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Religion, Health, and Healing
An Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Edited by Alexander Rödlach and Barbara Dilly
Catalogue of Images
Illustrating “Contested Measures of Humanity in African Suffering and Healing” John M. Janzen, University of Kansas
Introduction The relative ease of digital image publishing has offered the opportunity to lavishly illustrate this chapter with many of the museum objects and related images of the original design for the exhibition “African Healing Journeys.” A large group of objects is from the collections of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, as studied and selected by the consulting scholars. As the planning for the project progressed, it became apparent that the Museum’s holdings did not cover some of the interesting, yet important, themes in African sickness, healing, health and medicine. Objects from other collections were drawn in to illustrate these themes, particularly as they pertain to
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contemporary situations and topics. Such collections include: paintings from several African regions, collected by Professors Armin Prinz and Ruth Kutalek of the Unit Ethnomedicine and International Health of the Medical University of Vienna, Austria; objects from the African collections of the Kauffman Museum, Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas, and the Spencer Museum of Art, at the University of Kansas; my own fieldwork photographs; and, a single photograph by James Kennel, Southern Methodist University.
Catalogue
Figures 1a, 1b1
Two “fertility dolls,” Botswana (Penn 30-21-1, 30-21-2).
1 Permission to use photographs of objects in the collections of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is gratefully acknowledged, and was obtained by authorization #RR2421, December 23, 2010. These objects are identified in captions by “Penn” and catalogue number.
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Figures 2a, 2b2
Ibeji twin figures, Yoruba of Nigeria (SMA 2007.2683 & 2684).
2 Permission to use photographs of objects in the collections of the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, is gratefully acknowledged. These objects are identified as “SMA” followed by catalogue number.
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Figures 3a, 3b
Two Sande society Sowei masks of young womanhood, Sherbro peoples (Penn 37-22-265, 37-22-263).
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Figure 3c
Sowei wearer being presented by two women. Photo by Henry Usher Hall, 1936-7, Photo 24936. University of Pennsylvania Museum Archives.
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Figure 4
Guardian of the Yassi Society’s medicine, Sherbro peoples (Penn 37-22-279).
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Figure 53
Le mystere de la maternité. Painting by Shula, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), 2006, Vienna.
3 Permission to use photographs of paintings in the collections of the Unit Ethnomedicine and International Health of the Medical University of Vienna, Austria is gratefully acknowledged. These object photos are identified as “Vienna” and the catalogue number.
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Figure 6
Maternity figure, Yoruba, Nigeria (SMA 2007.2735).
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Figure 7
Maternity figure, Baule peoples, Cote d’Ivoire (Penn 29-12-68).
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Figure 8
Royal throne, its seat supported by a woman with scarifications and elaborate coiffure, Luba peoples, DRC (Penn AF5121).
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Figure 94
Bieri ancestor figure, Fang, Gabon, early 20th C. (KM 1878).
4 Permission to use photographs of objects in the collections of the Kauffman Museum, North Newton, Kansas is gratefully acknowledged. These objects are identified as “KM” and the catalogue number.
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Figure 10
Eyama ancestor figure, Fang peoples (Penn 68-18-1).
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Figures 11a, 11b, 11c
Mbulu-ngulu reliquary guardian spirit figures, Kota peoples, Republic of Congo, Gabon (Penn 29-36-1, 29-12-227, 29-12-21).
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Figure 12
Mask of Tundu, the pox-marked trickster, Ngeleko of Kamuania Village, sculptor, Pende peoples, DRC, 1970s (KM 6569.A-18).
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Figure 13
Sakpatashi, a possessed devotee of the earth god Sakpata, wearing red and white spots of various skin diseases to represent the god taking on diseases for the community. Aja peoples, Republic of Benin. Photo by James Kennel, with permission.
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Figure 14
Mask of the twisted face of Mbangu, in the moment of seizure, Kitshiola of Nioka Munene Village, sculptor, Pende peoples, DRC, 1970s (KM 6569.A-21).
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Figure 15
Idiok, mask representing pathological or abnormal tendencies, is danced opposite the beautiful maiden mask. Ibiobio peoples, SE Nigeria, early 20th C. (SMA 2007.2757).
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Figures 16a, 16b, 16c
Three squatting “dysentery” figures with head in hands, Lulua peoples, DRC, early 20th C. (Penn 30-55-1, AF 5184; 29-59-11).
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Figure 17
Le SIDA, Fleau de l”humanité. Painting by Herge Makuzay, DRC, 2003, Vienna.
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Figure 18
Le SIDA parmi nous. Painting by Cheri-Cherin, DRC, 2005, Vienna.
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Figure 19
Bronze sculpture of Ofoe, messenger of Ogiuwu, god of death, Yoruba peoples, Nigeria (SMA 2007.2765).
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Figure 20
A la recherché de l’enfant chez le tradipracticien, Painting by Shula, DRC 2001.
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Figure 21
Guerisseur Papa wa Roma, Painting by Cheri-Cherin, DRC, 1999. Vienna.
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Figure 22
Muhimbili Medical Center. Painting by Charinda, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 2002,Vienna.
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Figure 23
Oracle (Divination), Senegal 1993; Vienna.
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Figure 24
Opon Ifa (divination board, tapper), Yoruba peoples (Penn 81-2-7A.B).
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Figure 25
Apo Ifa (beaded bag), Yoruba peoples (Penn 74-22-1).
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Figure 26
Ifa divination bowl with elaborately carved lid. Yoruba peoples (Penn. AF3674).
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Figures 27a, 27b
Ngombo basket (Penn 30-13-1) with 40 objects to “read” case at hand (Penn 30-13-1A-30-13-1Z); Ovimbundu peoples, Angola; ngombo diviner Chokwe peoples, Kahemba, 1959; Photo by author.
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Figure 28
Mboko divination sculpture, Luba peoples (Penn AF5120).
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Figure 29
Sangoma “throwing the bones.” Near Mbabane, Swaziland, 1982. Photo by author.
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Figure 30
Sorcellerie a la Barre (Sorcery in the Court), Painting by Shula, DRC, 2004, Vienna.
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Figure 32
Self portrait of a Southern Savanna man trying to protect his family – represented by hair from their heads attached to the sculpture; Songye, middle Sankuru. 1906 (Penn AF 595).
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Figure 33
Medicine to protect a garden from theft with a recipe for an antidote to rescue trespasser, stricken by a headache caused by this medicine, Sherbro, Sierra Leone (Penn 37-22-214).
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Figure 34
N’kisi N’kondi figure bristling with iron nails and wedges, a stomach medicine pack, Kongo peoples, Lower Congo (Penn 30-46-2). 19th century.
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Figure 35
Anthropomorphic carved cup reported to have been used in a poison ordeal for an individual suspected of having caused another's sickness or death, Awongo peoples, West Kasai, Congo (Penn AF 1943).
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Figure 36
Reconciliation as Healing: A gathering of two Kongo lineages at odds for a long time, but who used the sickness a prominent member to end the feud. Diviner Marie Kukunda, seated in shade of house roof, watches as a speaker of one of the lineages revokes a curse, and offers gifts; the sufferer is seated in circle, 3rd from left. 1969. Photo by author.
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Figure 37
Ga-Sua Oracle figure, a community medicine mask demonstrates how medicine may create or strengthen community authority to protect and enhance wellbeing. Kra-Tchien peoples, Liberia (Penn 63-7-1).
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Figure 38a
Ngoma in Guguleto, Western Cape, South Africa: (a) novice entering “the white” of therapeutic apprenticeship with his healer-sponsor. Photo by author, 1982.
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Figure 38b
Ngoma in Guguleto, Western Cape, South Africa: (b) novices of ngoma cell dressed in white clothing and anointed in white chalk to demonstrate their liminal status in the spirit world, in contrast to colorfully dressed fully-qualified healers. Photo by author, 1982.
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Figure 38c
Ngoma in Guguleto, Western Cape, South Africa: (c) “doing ngoma” the song-dance session of “confessing dreams.” Photo by author, 1982.
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Figures 39a, 39b
An ngoma drum used by a spirit medium; Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (Private Collection, 1995). Becoming a N'anga , painting by Mazanyani, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (SMA 2007.2756). The painting shows the sickness-vision quest with the water spirit kidnapping the boy (top), and taking him under the water; the medium (main figure lower left) prepares the festival of initiation; celebrants carry drums to stream where boy emerges; feast is prepared and served (lower right) for the final celebration of the sufferer-novice turned healer.
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Figure 40
Initiated member’s bracelet of the historic Lemba order of Lower Congo (KM 6503.3) that emerged in 1650 with the coastal trade. 19th-20th century.
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Figure 41
Necklace worn by participant in Zar cult of Northeast Africa (Penn 48-29-95).
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Figure 42
Church of the Holy Spirit in Africa prophet performs the healing of a devotee. Photo by author, 1969.
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Figure 43
Eglise de Dieu, a Christian cleric in suit appearing to exorcise a possessing spirit from a young woman. Painting by Ezancy, DRC, 2007, Vienna.
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Figure 44
Painting: Ethiopia. A Christian version of “reading as healing” In the lower of two panels a cleric is reading to a sick patient, while in the top panel an angel is driving away the afflicting “satan” with his sword (Penn 67-45-1).
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Figure 45
Sufi mganga Kingiri-Ngiri of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, reading an Arabic book to heal a woman of menstrual problems. Photo by author, 1983.
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Figure 46
Wooden writing tablet from which the ink inscriptions are washed into a therapeutic drink, thus “imbibing the words” (Penn 29-201-704).
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Figure 47
Scribe writing on such tablets, and tea leaves, in the compound of Sudanese Sufi Sheikh Mohmed, North Khartoum. Photo by author, 2004.