Ifa oracle tapper · Nigeria, Yoruba · ID: 3033184
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Provenance
Lore Kegel & Dr. Georg Kegel, Hamburg, Germany (1956)Size
H: 31,5 cm
H: 12.4 inch
Description
ivory, natural texture, carved with the mask face of “eshu”, decorating grooves, dark brown pigment rubbed into the deepenings, complete with clapper, collection label “Q33/229/12”, min. dam., cracks through age, minor missing parts, on base
The object Ifa oracle tapper with the object ID 3033184 was last part of the auction 70th tribal art auction at September 8, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 320.
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Comparing literature
Witte, Hans, A Closer Look, Berg en Dal 2004, p. 242 f.