Lidded bowl for "ifa" oracle implements · Nigeria, Yoruba, artist probably Ogundeji · ID: 3053112
Starting price
EUR 3,000
Estimated price
EUR 5,000
Provenance
Museum Berg en Dal, The NetherlandsZemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 28 November 2009, lot 437
Dutch Private Collection
Size
D: 34,5 cm
D: 13.6 inch
Description
wood, pigments,
Probably carved by one of the sons of Olumole of Iseyin, perhaps Ogundeji (comparable object see AHDRC 0105288).
This bowls served to store the utensils of the “Ifa” diviner (holy palm nuts “ikin”, “opele” divination chain, “iroke ifa” tapper, small bone figures “ikin ifa”).
Comparing literature
Witte, Hans, Ifa and Esu, Soest-Holland 1984, p. 92 f.
Publications
Witte, Hans, Symboliek van de aarde bij de Yoruba, In: University Microfilms Ann Arbor, 1982, 33 a & b; Witte, Hans, Images of Yoruba Water-Spirit, In: Effigies Dei, Essays on the History of Religions, Leiden et.al. 1987, 3 & 4, Witte, Hans, Fishes of the Earth, In: Visible Religion I, 1982, 11 & 12
AHDRC: 0105286