DIVINATION CUP agere Ifa - Yoruba culture, Kingdom of Oyo, Nigeria - 19th century

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DIVINATION CUP agere Ifa - Yoruba culture, Kingdom of Oyo, Nigeria - 19th century

Name: DIVINATION CUP agere Ifa - Yoruba culture, Kingdom of Oyo, Nigeria - 19th century
Brand: Antikeo
SKU: HE5RS3SVKV
Price: 680 EUR
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Period 19th century

Style Tribal Art

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DIVINATION CUP agere Ifa
Yoruba culture, Kingdom of Oyo, Nigeria
19th century
Wood
H. 13.5; L. 15.5 cm

Pedestal bowl featuring a bird - probably a turtle-dove - with folded wings incised with fine hatching on the tips. Its beak is short and its eyes incised with two small circles.
The bowl has a shallow depression, and its straight edges are animated by a sawtooth frieze of alternating solid and incised triangles - reminiscent of the solar motif.

Agere Ifa bowls were used to store the sixteen ikin Ifa palm nuts used by Babalawo diviners or priests during oracle interrogation rituals.
They belong to the instruments of divination - including opon Ifa divination trays and iroke Ifa percussors or hammers.
The finesse and quality of a bowl's treatment were used to determine the rank of the Ifa diviner.

Bibliography
A similar example is reproduced in Gabriel Massa's Sculptures animalières d'Afrique noire, p.88, fig. 50.

Ref. number : 4823

Ref: HE5RS3SVKV

Additional Information

Condition	Very good
Ethnic group	Yoruba - Yorouba
Style	Tribal Art (African Usuels and Rituals items of Tribal Art Style)
Period	19th century (African Usuels and Rituals items 19th century)
Country of origin	Nigeria