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
- type:
- divination bowls
- credit:
- Sothebys
