 Bowl 2 17.5" diameter $3000 |
 Bowl 4 17" diameter $3000 |
 Bowl 7 19" diameter $800 |
Bowl 9 14" diameter $1000 |
Bowl 13 21" diameter $3000 |
Bowl 14 17" diameter $2500 |
Bowl 2 17.5" diameter $3000 |
Bowl 4 17" diameter $3000 |
Bowl 7 19" diameter $800 |
Bowl 9 14" diameter $1000 |
Bowl 13 21" diameter $3000 |
Bowl 14 17" diameter $2500 |
Bowl Lid16 16" diameter $800 |
Bowl 17 16" diameter $1000 |
Bowl 18 21" diameter $800 |
Bowl 19 16" diameter $800 |
Bowl 21 20" long $800 |
The Yoruba bowls below have been sold and are left here for reference and education purposes.
Bowl 20 15.5" diameter SOLD |
Photographs © Tim Hamill
These Yoruba divination bowls have been vetted as authentic and old.
Divination (Ifa) is practiced to explain misfortunes and help to prevent them. The diviner, in consulting a diety, manipulates sixteen palm nuts, reads the patterns they form and marks the results on a divination board sprinkled with wood dust. The marks indicate verses that should be chanted as prayers. The bowls, agere Ifa, are receptacles for the sixteen sacred palm nuts used in divination.
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