Cup

Museum number:
5-2597
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
B-1925 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.1683
Description:
Yoruba divining cup with 5 human figures, painted blue, magenta and white; 7" high, 6 7/8" base dia.
Donor:
William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; So. Nigeria; Yoruba (tr.)
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1938
Materials:
Paint (coating)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cups (drinking vessels)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
1962
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
diameter 17.463 centimeters and height 17.78 centimeters
Comment:
NOTE: Pencil notation on Bascom card: “men ___ women”. PAHMA Storage Loc: W-13-1
Loans:
S1971-1972 #131: Department of Art (UC Davis) (May 10, 1972–June 13, 1972)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Cup, accession number 5-2597, described as Yoruba divining cup with 5 human figures, painted blue, magenta and white; 7" high, 6 7/8" base dia.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cup, accession number 5-2597, described as Yoruba divining cup with 5 human figures, painted blue, magenta and white; 7" high, 6 7/8" base dia.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cup, accession number 5-2597, described as Yoruba divining cup with 5 human figures, painted blue, magenta and white; 7" high, 6 7/8" base dia.

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