YORUBA DIVINATION BOWLS ARCHIVES, NIGERIA

The Yoruba bowls below have been sold and are left here for reference and education purposes.

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Yoruba
Lidded Bowl 23
29" high x 20.5" wide x 23" deep
SOLD

 

Yoruba
Bowl 18
21" diameter
SOLD

Yoruba
Bowl 4
17" diameter
SOLD

Yoruba
Bowl 7
19" diameter
SOLD

Yoruba
Bowl 4
17" diameter
SOLD

 

Yoruba
Bowl 22
16.5" long
SOLD

Yoruba
Bowl 19
16" diameter
SOLD


Yoruba
Bowl 13
21" diameter
SOLD

Yoruba
Bowl 14
17" diameter
SOLD


Yoruba
Bowl 20
15.5" diameter
SOLD

Yoruba
Bowl 21
20" long
SOLD


Photographs © Hamill Gallery

YORUBA, DIVINATION BOWLS, Nigeria

Divination (Ifa) is practiced to explain misfortunes and help to prevent them. The diviner, in consulting a diety, manipulates sixteen palm nuts, reads the patterns they form and marks the results on a divination board sprinkled with wood dust. The marks indicate verses that should be chanted as prayers. The bowls, agere Ifa, are receptacles for the sixteen sacred palm nuts used in divination.

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