{"id":1950,"date":"2017-05-14T11:40:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T16:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2026-07-13T12:58:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:58:03","slug":"power-figure-nkisi-nkondi-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/power-figure-nkisi-nkondi-78\/","title":{"rendered":"Nkisi Nkondi Power Figure &#8211; Meaningful Materials (78)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nkisi Nkondi Power Figure \u2013 Meaningful Materials (78)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PfpBBPJA74U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1951\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1951\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/power-figure-nkisi-nkondi-78\/ep78-nkisi-nkondi-1998-502\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1951\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1951\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ep78-nkisi-nkondi-1998.502-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Power Figure (Nkisi Nkondi), Vili, Republic of the Congo or Democratic Republic of the Congo, Art Institute of Chicago, 1998.502\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ep78-nkisi-nkondi-1998.502-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ep78-nkisi-nkondi-1998.502-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ep78-nkisi-nkondi-1998.502.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Power Figure (Nkisi Nkondi), Vili, Republic of the Congo or Democratic Republic of the Congo, Art Institute of Chicago, 1998.502<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>How do artists&#8217; choices of materials assign identity and meaning to works of art? How does meaning assign material? In this excerpt from one of my museum tours, I explore the meaningful materials in a Nkisi Nkondi Power Figure of the Vili people in central Africa. This recording comes complete with all the juicy, unscripted, live-action museum gallery accents including background chatter and beeping proximity alarms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[515],"tags":[36,525,517,522,523,524,521],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1950"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2217,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions\/2217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}