Oracle bowl "agere ifa" ·  Nigéria, Yoruba · ID: 3037631

Description

wood, brown patina, small remains of black and red paint, in form of a double bowl (rare!), rising from a disc-shaped base, two accompanying figures, a smaller female one and a larger male, carved with jacket in european style, holding a beaded necklace in the left hand, slightly dam., minor missing parts, traces of insect caused damage (plate)

Littérature comparée

Eisenhofer, Stefan (Hg.), Kulte, Künstler, Könige in Afrika, Linz 1997, p. 196, ill. III/1.