Oracle bowl "agere ifa"

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Description

wood, polychrome paint, stand in form of two chicken holding a snake in their beaks, min. dam., small missing parts, slight traces of abrasion;
the motif of bird and snake symbolizes the confrontation between obvious danger (snake) and insidiousness.

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Comparing literature

Eisenhofer, Stefan (Hg.), Kulte, Künstler, Könige in Afrika, Linz 1997, p. 193, ill. III/1.1

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