Lid of a ceremonial vessel "awo ota eyinle" ·  Nigeria, Yoruba, "Rival of Abatan" · ID: 3049130

Description

terracotta, blackened, rest.

This is a 19th century work of a female potter called the “rival of Abatan” (AHDRC 0105199). The somewhat peculiar title was awarded to distinguish her from the Egbado master potter “Abatan”.

It is a lid of a ceremonial vessel known as “woota eyinle”, “vessel for the stones of eyinle”. The god “eyinle” or “erinle” is associated with hunting, rivers and healing leaves.

Comparing literature

Drewal, Henry John & John Pemberton, Yoruba, New York 1989, p. 228, ill. 271

Publications

AHDRC: 0105199