This scene depicts a man with a rifle in his hand bending over a recumbent figure in a feathered headdress and wrapper similar to that worn by the person in scene 6. His sword or knife has fallen while another individual holds his hand. Could this scene represent a power struggle between rival clans or trading houses? Or, perhaps, a conflict between powerful cosmic forces fighting for control over the realms of life and death? Nkisi figures with feathered headdresses contain medicines of empowerment and are also associated with violence of "the above" or the sky.

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