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Divination bowl (Agere Ifa)
Divination bowl (Agere Ifa)

Divination bowl (Agere Ifa)

Date19th century
Object number81.17.617
Exhibition HistoryLos Angeles, California, Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, African Art in Motion: Icon and Act, Jan. 20 - Mar. 17, 1974 (Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, May 5 - Sept. 22, 1974). Text by Robert Farris Thompson. No cat. no., pp. 25, 27, reproduced pl. 32 (as "ifa" bowl). Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, African Panoplies: Art for Rulers, Traders, Hunters, and Priests, Apr. 21 - Aug. 14, 1988.
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions10 3/4 in. (27.3 cm) Diam.: 10 1/4 in.
MediumWood and pigment
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Object number: 2013.20.1
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Object number: 81.17.1500
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2003
Object number: 2005.158
Photo: iocolor, Seattle
2001
Object number: 2005.149
Photo: Susan Cole
ca. 2001
Object number: 2005.150
Photo by Paul Macapia
2001
Object number: 2005.151
Photo by Paul Macapia
1997
Object number: 2005.153
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Object number: 81.17.1338