Palm nut

Museum number:

5-15415k

Permalink:

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Accession number:

Acc.4471

Donor:

Berta Bascom

Collection place:

Igana, Oyo State, Nigeria

Verbatim coll. place:

Nigeria, Igana, Yoruba, Ifa; Carver: Baba Alawode

Culture or time period:

Yoruba

Collector:

Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom

Collection date:

March 1938

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Botanical samples

Function:

5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies

Department:

Africa (except Ancient Egypt)