Carved wooden divination bowl
- maker:
- Yoruba people
Carved wooden divination bowl, known as "Adjelle ifa" or "Adjelepa," meaning palm kernal, used as oracle, roughly hemispherical bowl and lid supported on stem by of human figures with cow in the centre, circular base, stained red and blue, Yoruba tribe (?) Dahomey, West Africa, 1880-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A192140
- Materials:
- wood
- Measurements:
-
height 305 mm
bowl: height 50 mm
bowl, with lid: height 155 mm
base: diameter 226 mm
bowl: diameter 185 mm
bowl, internal: diameter 165 mm
- type:
- divination bowls
- credit:
- Sothebys
