M0012645: Carved Adjella Ifa ritual bowl, Nigeria

Date:
August 1952
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/113/6
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M0012645: Carved Adjella Ifa ritual bowl, Nigeria. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced August 2022: Ritual bowl; Nigeria

Description

Photograph of an adjella ifa ritual bowl made c.1880-1920 in Nigeria, and used by Yoruba diviners to hold palm nuts. The bowl has been carved into a female form carrying a child on her back, kneeling, and offering the bowl in respect to Ifa, the god of divination, and the lid in the form of a hen; the diviner would use the bowl to seek answers to questions about an illness. This item was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum but is now held by the Science Museum (A123603).

Publication/Creation

August 1952

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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