Divination bowl "agere ifa" with fancy caryatid figures · Nigeria, Yoruba · ID: 3044130
sold
EUR 800
Provenance
Gert Stoll, Berchtesgaden, GermanySize
H: 14,5 cm
H: 5.7 inch
Description
wood, brass,
The “agere ifa” divination bowl served as a receptacle for the sixteen sacred palm nuts (“ikin”). Through this medium, “ifa” priests communicated with the god of fate, “orunmila”, in order to obtain insights into an individual’s destiny.
The object Divination bowl “agere ifa” with fancy caryatid figures with the object ID 3044130 was last part of the auction 89th Tribal Art Auction at July 7, 2018 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 314 achieved a sales price of EUR 800.
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