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Ifa priest's beaded bag "apo ileke Ifa" - Nigeria,

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Ifa priest's beaded bag "apo ileke Ifa" - Nigeria,

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animal skin, cardboard, fabric, miniature glass beads, base

This bag is lavishly decorated with hundreds of tiny glass beads in beautifully coordinated warm colours. The central motif is a mask face, representing the priest himself or "eshu", next to it are floral motifs, the edges are trimmed with diamond borders.Such elaborate bags were the property of the "babalawo" ("father of secrets") and served to store the utensils needed for divination: sixteen sacred palm nuts "ikin" or divination chain "opele ifa", a small ivory head "olori ikin" (symbolic of "eshu elegba"), oracle tappers "iroke ifa" and an assortment of shells, bones and stones.

H: 21,5 cm x 20,5 cm, H: 8,5 inch x 8,1 inch

Provenance:B.C. Holland (1922-1994) Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Douglas Dawson Gallery, Chicago
Arte Primitivo, New York, 29 July 2020, Lot 407
Private Collection, Chicago

AHDRC: 0187102

Lit.: Drewal, Henry John & John Mason, Beads, Body and Soul, Los Angeles 1998, p. 229

Continent: Africa

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Ifa priest's beaded bag "apo ileke Ifa" - Nigeria,

Name: Ifa priest's beaded bag \"apo ileke Ifa\" - Nigeria,
SKU: 114740681
Price: 3200 EUR
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