Divining cup w/ lid

Museum number:
5-16434a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210516434a@2cb
Alternate number:
B-1946a,b (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.4739
Description:
Yoruba divining cup and lid. Smiling woman with rooster & attendants. (Efon Alaye; 1937-38; 250, from carver’s mother). Fine, old, cracked. H = 14.5” ; W = 16.5” kneeling woman supporting a large container offering a cock as sacrifice, surrounded by 4 attendants; a) cup, b) lid Condition - large crack from back thru cup front
Donor:
Berta Bascom
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
June 23, 2004
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
lid— width 11.5 centimeters, cup— height 36 centimeters, lid— height 41 centimeters, cup— width 18 centimeters, and cup— length 17 centimeters
Comment:
Illustrated: Primitive Art, University Gallery, Univeristy of Minnesota, 1940, fig. 3. Robbins; African Art in American Collections, 1966:162 Biebuyck, Tradition and Creativity in Tribal Art, 1969: pl. 71. Bascom; Ifa Divination, 1969, Pl. 8 Bascom 1973: 50 and cover. Bascom, African Arts, 7:3 1974:65. Armstrong, The Affecting Presence, 1971. “Anthropology and Archaelogy, New and Recent Titles”; University of Illinois Press, 1975, cover The Courier Journal, Louisville, 31 March 1940, Rotogravure Section, pg. 7 The Oregon Sunday Journal, Portland, 21 April 1940. Photos in Roto Section, pg. 5 Sunday World-Herald, Omaha, NB, 31 March 1940, Rotogravure Section, pg. 2 The Sunday Star, Washington , D.C., 14 April 1940. Gravure Section, Part 2, pg. 1 Buffalo Courier-Express Pictorial, pg. 5 Oakland Tribune, 4 November 1962, El Dorado Section, 11/4/62 cover Whitney Halsted’s slides; # 101B/W photos (2) stored with Bascom Index Card File.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 6 titled Divining cup w/ lid, accession number 5-16434a,b, described as Yoruba divining cup and lid. Smiling woman with rooster & attendants. (Efon Alaye; 1937-38; 250, from carver’s mother). Fine, old, cracked. H = 14.5” ; W = 16.5” kneeling woman supporting a large container offering a cock as sacrifice, surrounded by 4 attendants; a) cup, b) lid Condition - large crack from back thru cup frontHearst Museum object 2 of 6 titled Divining cup w/ lid, accession number 5-16434a,b, described as Yoruba divining cup and lid. Smiling woman with rooster & attendants. (Efon Alaye; 1937-38; 250, from carver’s mother). Fine, old, cracked. H = 14.5” ; W = 16.5” kneeling woman supporting a large container offering a cock as sacrifice, surrounded by 4 attendants; a) cup, b) lid Condition - large crack from back thru cup frontHearst Museum object 3 of 6 titled Divining cup w/ lid, accession number 5-16434a,b, described as Yoruba divining cup and lid. Smiling woman with rooster & attendants. (Efon Alaye; 1937-38; 250, from carver’s mother). Fine, old, cracked. H = 14.5” ; W = 16.5” kneeling woman supporting a large container offering a cock as sacrifice, surrounded by 4 attendants; a) cup, b) lid Condition - large crack from back thru cup frontHearst Museum object 4 of 6 titled Divining cup w/ lid, accession number 5-16434a,b, described as Yoruba divining cup and lid. Smiling woman with rooster & attendants. (Efon Alaye; 1937-38; 250, from carver’s mother). Fine, old, cracked. H = 14.5” ; W = 16.5” kneeling woman supporting a large container offering a cock as sacrifice, surrounded by 4 attendants; a) cup, b) lid Condition - large crack from back thru cup frontHearst Museum object 5 of 6 titled Divining cup w/ lid, accession number 5-16434a,b, described as Yoruba divining cup and lid. Smiling woman with rooster & attendants. (Efon Alaye; 1937-38; 250, from carver’s mother). Fine, old, cracked. H = 14.5” ; W = 16.5” kneeling woman supporting a large container offering a cock as sacrifice, surrounded by 4 attendants; a) cup, b) lid Condition - large crack from back thru cup frontHearst Museum object 6 of 6 titled Divining cup w/ lid, accession number 5-16434a,b, described as Yoruba divining cup and lid. Smiling woman with rooster & attendants. (Efon Alaye; 1937-38; 250, from carver’s mother). Fine, old, cracked. H = 14.5” ; W = 16.5” kneeling woman supporting a large container offering a cock as sacrifice, surrounded by 4 attendants; a) cup, b) lid Condition - large crack from back thru cup front

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