Divination bowl carved with leopard and female figures
- maker:
- Yoruba people
Light wooden polychrome divination bowl with hinged lid surmounted by leopard with serpents head in jaws, bowl supported by 6 caryatid figures and equestrian figure forms central support, Yoruba, West African, 1851-1920
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Divination bowlDetails
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A301226
- Materials:
- wood, lightweight
- type:
- divination bowls
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)
