Examples of fetish in the following topics:
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- Kongo art can be known for their "nail fetishes" because users often hammered nails into the sculptures.
- Nkondi (plural minkondi, zinkondi or nkondi with mi-concords, according to dialect) religious objects , frequently called "nail fetishes" because users often hammered nails into them, were made by the Kongo people of West Central Africa.
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- There are three grades, the first for chiefs and big men, the second for fetish-priests and the third for the crowd.
- The ceremonies of the Purrah are presided over by the Poro devil, a man in fetish dress, who addresses the meeting through a long tube of wood.
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- Early travelers often called nkisi "fetishes" or "idols," as some were made in human form.
- Nkondi - often referred to as "nail fetishes" - are an aggressive type of nkisi that are thought to be activated by having nails driven into them.
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- Non-utilitarian objects were also carved in miniature so that they could be carried or worn, such as dance masks, amulets, fetish figures, and intricate combs and figures which were used to tell legends and objectify their mythology and oral history.
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- The Old Testament restrictions against the production of graven images (an idol or fetish carved in wood or stone) might have also constrained Christians from producing art.