“Portuguese sailors brought to Europe the first feitiços, African objects supposedly having mysterious powers, in the late fifteen century. One finds them mostly in well-organized curio cabinets along with Indian tomahawks or arrows, Egyptian artifacts, and Siamese drums…It is not until the eighteenth century that, as strange and “ugly” artifacts, they really enter into the frame of African art….” [Mudimbe, The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge]