Two oracle figures ·  R. D. Congo, Tchokwé · ID: 3034160

Description

wood, brown patina, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion, metal socle;
several of these small figures were in the diviner’s basket, after he shaked the basket, he interpreted the cause for a stroke of fate or told the future according to the position of figures now on top.

Littérature comparée

Kecskési, Maria, Kunst aus Afrika, München, London, New York 1999, p. 164