Workshop of Duga of Meko, Yorùbá, and others
Ifa Divination Bowl (Agere Ifa)
Yoruba, Ketu region, 1933
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- Artist: Workshop of Duga of Meko
- Culture: Yorùbá
- Culture group: Ketu
Ifa Divination Bowl (Agere Ifa)
Yoruba, Ketu region, 1933
Physical Qualities
Wood, paint, pigment, 7 3/8 x 7 1/2 x 6 11/16 in. (18.8 x 19 x 17 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Russell L. Wade, Washington, D.C.
Object Number
1999.748
Bowl supported by a seated male figure smoking a pipe with the proper left hand and holding a fly whisk in the proper right hand; female figure holding breasts on either side of central figure; two black male figures prostrate in front of central figure, with faces turned towards front.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1999; purchased from Jeffrey Hamer, New York
"New on View,", June 19, 2002-Oct 6, 2002, BMA.
African Reinstallation, "Public Art," April 2015, Wurtzburger Galleries, BMA, Kathryn Gunsch.
African Reinstallation, "Public Art," April 2015, Wurtzburger Galleries, BMA, Kathryn Gunsch.
Frederick John Lamp, "See the Music Hear the Dance: Rethinking African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art." New York: Prestel, 2003, p.106, ill.
BMAToday, Fall 2008 - p. 11
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