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Yorùbá

Ifa Divination Tapper (Iroke Ifa)

Yoruba, 1900

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Yorùbá

Ifa Divination Tapper (Iroke Ifa)

Yoruba, 1900

Physical Qualities Ivory, 12 in. (30.5 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number 1954.145.39
"The Wurtzburger Collection of African Sculpture," Jan 12, 1954-Feb 14, 1954, BMA, cat. 39, ill. p. 21.

"Wurtzburger Collection," June 21, 1954-Aug 31, 1954, School of Advanced Studies, Johns Hopkins University.

"African Sculpture," Oct 8, 1954-Nov 7, 1954, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester.

"Social Rite and Personal Delight: African Art from Baltimore Collections," June 17, 1975-Aug 3, 1975, BMA, cat 35.

"The Best of Fifty," Mar 22, 1977-May 8, 1977, The Taft Museum, Cincinnati.

African Reinstallation, "Public Art," April 2015, Wurtzburger Galleries, BMA, Kathryn Gunsch.
K. R. Greenfield, 'The Museum: Its First Half Century,' 'Annual I,' BMA, 1966, ill. p. 78. Frederick Lamp, 'African Art at The Baltimore Museum of Art,' 'African Arts,' vol. XVII, no. 1, Nov. 1983.
Frederick Lamp, 'Baltimore's African Art Collection,' 'Topic' (USIF), no. 155, pp. 30-36, ill. p. 35.
Frederick John Lamp, "See the Music Hear the Dance: Rethinking African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art." New York: Prestel, 2003, p.109, ill.

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