Diviner's necklace with two pouches "apon ifa"
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Lot: 207
90.I Tribal Art and 90.II Contemporary Native American ArtDiviner's necklace with two pouches "apon ifa"
Nigeria, Yoruba
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L: 27.6 inch (necklace); H: 6.3 inch (pouches) |
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cloth, glass beads, thread, wood,
Such long necklaces with two beaded pouches suspended from sixteen sections of beaded strands are restricted to the "ifa" priest, called "babalawo" ("father of the secrets"). In the bags he carries his divining chain "opele ifa" and other objects used in the rites of divination.
Fagg, William, Yoruba beadwork, New York 1980, p. p. 39
