Bowl with cover, carved wood; a) bowl with 4 compartments surrounding central compartment; outside dyed blue; diameter: 32 cm; (b) cover: fully carved bird devouring snake are on the top of the cover; two diamonds and two endless knots in low relief on sides; some red pigment; diameter: 32 cm.
Donor:
Mrs. Melvin S. Silverman
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Nigeria; Yoruba
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Pigment and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowls (vessels) and 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:
December 1976
Context of use:
used in Ifa divination. "Benin: Yoruba" on list incorrect, fide WRB.