Divination Bowl

Yoruba people, Nigeria, d. early 20th c.

Carved wood

Ex–Cincinnati collection

9” x 15” d (23 x 33 cm)

SOLD

Cf. Sotheby’s (1997: lot 220) and Thompson (1971: fig. 3).

REFERENCES

Important Tribal Art, Monday 5 May 1997, Sotheby’s (New York, 1997), lot 220.

Thompson, Robert Farris. Black Gods and Kings: Yoruba Art at UCLA. Los Angeles: University of

California, Museum and Laboratories of Ethnic Arts and Technology, 1971.