Pouch w/ nuts

Museum number:
5-10843a-q
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
B-2019a-q (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.4192
Description:
Cloth bag containing 16 divining seeds - mostly palm nuts. [ikin ifa] Bag is of cotton cloth with string latch; 20.8 cm x 18 cm. Used in Ifa divination. Collected pre-1969. Oyo, 181. a = bag, b - q = seeds
Donor:
Berta Bascom
Collection place:
Oyo, Oyo State, Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Nigeria; Oyo; Yoruba
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
before 1969
Materials:
Cotton (textile), Nut, and Palm
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Pouches
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Context of use:
16 palm nuts = set used in divination; cf. IFA DIVINATION Pl. 12 for this set of nuts and text p. 26-28.
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
a— width 18 centimeters, a— length 20.8 centimeters, and b-q max.— length 3 centimeters
Comment:
Illustrated, Bascom Ifa Divination, 1969, Pl. 12. PAHMA Storage Loc: W-15-5
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Pouch w/ nuts, accession number 5-10843a-q, described as Cloth bag containing 16 divining seeds - mostly palm nuts. [ikin ifa] Bag is of cotton cloth with string latch; 20.8 cm x 18 cm. Used in Ifa divination. Collected pre-1969. Oyo, 181. a = bag, b - q = seeds
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pouch w/ nuts, accession number 5-10843a-q, described as Cloth bag containing 16 divining seeds - mostly palm nuts. [ikin ifa] Bag is of cotton cloth with string latch; 20.8 cm x 18 cm. Used in Ifa divination. Collected pre-1969. Oyo, 181. a = bag, b - q = seeds

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