Couvercle d´un récipient cérémoniel "awo ota eyinle" · Nigéria, Yoruba, "Rival d´Abatan" · ID: 3049130
Vendu
700 €
Provenance
Ursula Heijs-Voorhuis, Sint Agatha, The NetherlandsDescription
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.
Littérature comparée
Drewal, Henry John & John Pemberton, Yoruba, New York 1989, p. 228, ill. 271
Publications
AHDRC: 0105199