YORUBA DIVINATION BOWLS ARCHIVES, NIGERIA

The Yoruba bowls below have been sold and are left here for reference and education purposes.

For unsold Divination Bowls, GO TO YORUBA DIVINATION BOWLS

Yoruba Lidded Bowl 23 29" high x 20.5" wide x 23" deep SOLD

Yoruba Bowl 18 21" diameter SOLD

Yoruba Bowl 4 17" diameter SOLD

Yoruba Bowl 7 19" diameter SOLD

Yoruba Bowl 4 17" diameter SOLD

Yoruba Bowl 22 16.5" long SOLD

Yoruba Bowl 19 16" diameter SOLD

Yoruba Bowl 13 21" diameter SOLD

Yoruba Bowl 14 17" diameter SOLD

Yoruba Bowl 20 15.5" diameter SOLD

Yoruba Bowl 10 15.5" diameter SOLD

Yoruba Bowl 21 20" long SOLD

Photographs © Hamill Gallery

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.