Diviner's Tapper, Iroke Ifa

CultureYoruba peoples, Owo group
Titles
  • Diviner's Tapper, Iroke Ifa
Date18th century
PlaceNigeria, Africa
MediumIvory with dark wood inlay
Dimensions12 3/8 × 1 1/4 × 3 in. (31.4 × 3.2 × 7.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Frank Carroll in memory of Clytie Allen
Object number2016.106
Not on view

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Department
African Art
ProvenanceBryce Holcombe, New York, until d. 1983; Estate of Bryce Holcombe, 1984; purchased by [Pace Primitive, New York]; purchased by private collection; purchased by [Merton Simpson Gallery, New York]; puchased by Victor Teicher, Westport, CT, 2000–2007; purchased by [Pace Primitive, New York, 2007]; purchased by [Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham, MI, and New York, 2007–2008]; purchased by Frank Carroll, Houston, January 14, 2008–2016; given to MFAH, 2016.

Exhibition History- Yoruba: Sculpture of West Africa, Pace Primitive Gallery, New York, February 20–March 20, 1982.
- African Ivories, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 26–November 30, 1984.
- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 28, 2007–present.

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