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Ifa Divination Tapper (Iroke Ifa)

Owo Kingdom, Yoruba, 1933-1966

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Yorùbá

Ifa Divination Tapper (Iroke Ifa)

Yorùbá

Ifa Divination Tapper (Iroke Ifa)

Owo Kingdom, Yoruba, 1933-1966

Physical Qualities Wood, 9 13/16 in. (25 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Nance Asher, Denton, Maryland
Object Number 1988.52
with kneeling female figure
Thompson, Robert F., "Black gods and kings: Yoruba art at UCLA," Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976, c1971, ch. 3.

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Yorùbá

2000–2000

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