YORUBA OFFERING BOWLS, Nigeria

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Offering
Bowl 16
18"
$2000

Offering
Bowl 17
6.75"
$1000

 

 Offering
Bowl 19
10"
$400

 Offering
Bowl 20
20"
$400


The figures below have been sold and are left here for educational and research purposes.

Offering
Bowl 13
12"
SOLD

Offering
Bowl 14
14.5"
SOLD

Offering
Bowl 15
18.5"
SOLD

Offering
Bowl 18
17.5"
SOLD

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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