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The figures below have been sold and are left here for educational and research
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Photographs © Tim Hamill
YORUBA, OFFERING BOWLS, Nigeria
These bowls are used to hold kola nuts as offerings of hospitality or as receptacles for the sixteen sacred palm nuts used in divination. This form, with the bowl on top, is known as an Agere Ifa
Another form, with a kneeling female figure with lidded bowl, is known as an Opon Igede Ifa can be seen on Offering Bowls Page 2.
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