Tapper
- Museum number:
- 5-7239
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050007239
- Alternate number:
- 9 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2438
- Description:
- wooden tapper; Ifa tapper, carved kneeling female figure, painted blue. 37.5 cms h
- Donor:
- LeRoy M. Law
- Collection place:
- Nigeria
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Africa; Nigeria; Yoruba
- Culture or time period:
- Yoruba
- Collector:
- LeRoy M. Law
- Collection date:
- before 1968
- Materials:
- Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Carvings (visual works)
- Function:
- 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
- Accession date:
- 1968
- Context of use:
- before manipulating the palm nuts, the diviner taps a wooden tray to call the attention of the God of Divination.
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- height 37.5 centimeters
- Comment:
- (Murdock 31:31); part of African art teaching set; to be used as traveling exhibit for Bay area schools; File Code: 5.7 [crossed out on card]; 5. [handwritten on card: 1]
- Loans:
- S1968-1969 #32: Mission High School/Minerva Barranco (November 6, 1968–November 27, 1968), S1971-1972 #131: Department of Art (UC Davis) (May 10, 1972–June 13, 1972), and S1971-1972 #45: Redway Elementary School/Barbara Arnold (November 3, 1971–December 3, 1971)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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