Divination container "opon igede ifa" ·  Nigeria, Yoruba · ID: 3037605

Description

light wood, greyish brown patina, ring-shaped base, side handles partly in openwork-design, lid handle with bow-shaped contour, unusual: lid and corpus entirely covered with delicate ornaments in bas-relief, prevailing motif: intricate wavebands, even the rim of the bowl provided with fine herring-bone pattern, slightly dam., missing parts at the rim of the bowl, crack at the same place;
such boxes were used for storing palm nuts, the “opele” divination chain and other “ifa” oracle attributes.

The object Divination container “opon igede ifa” with the object ID 3037605 was part of the auction 78th tribal art auction on October 18, 2014. The object with the lot number 361 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,500 with an asking price of EUR 600.

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Comparing literature

Eisenhofer, Stefan (Hg.), Kulte, Künstler, Könige in Afrika, Linz 1997, p. 167