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Description: | Carved 'Adjella Ifa' (Ifa ritual bowl), in the form of a woman - carrying a child on her back - kneeling, and offering the bowl in respect to Ifa, the god of divination. The (detachable) lid of the bowl is in the form of a hen. Palm nuts used by Yoruba diviners are stored in the bowl. Yoruba people, Nigeria, 1880-1920 | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | divination bowl | Temporal: | 1880-1920 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Yoruba people | Identifier: | http://collectionsonline.nmsi.ac.uk/grab... | Go to resource |
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ifa bowl
Old label: "IFA Bowl". Shallow…
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