Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

λ Three Yoruba divination heads

Nigeria

bone, the largest inscribed Rev E T Packenham...Yoruba,

8.5cm high,

a bone figure amulet, two ivory bracelets with inlaid pewter dots, a snake vertebrae, a coconut slice strand and a quantity of coconut shell beads, with a handwritten note Beads made from coconut shell. Worn around waist by girls & women. Sometimes nothing else

 

Provenance

Reverend Edward Thomas Packenham, Church Missionary Society superintendent. Stationed in Owo, Oshogbo and Lagos 1909 - 1921.