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Ifa Divination Tray “Opon Ifa”

Yoruba people, Benin, c. 1900

Carved wood

8” h x 12” w (20.32 x 30.42 cm)

SOLD

 
 

Collected in England. The incurvate quadrilateral shape of this example is rather unusual. Cf. Thompson (1976: 55–7, figs. 16, 22, 30–1).

REFERENCES

Thompson, Robert Farris. Black Gods and Kings: Yoruba Art at UCLA. Bloomington:

Indiana UP, 1976.

Tribal Art, Friday 6 May 1994, Sotheby’s (New York, 1994), lot 115.

 
 
 
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SOLD