Divination tapper
date: label: Date
content: 19th century
name: label: Maker
content: Yoruba artist
notes: label: Description
content: Tapering ivory tusk, carved with a human head atop two stacked bata drum (hourglass) shapes, with another on the head, topped by a smooth pointed end. Overall warm honey colored patina
label: Provenance
content: Alain Schoffel, Paris, -- to 1972
label: Provenance
content: Harold Gray, 1972 to 2015
label: Exhibition History
content: Visionary: Viewpoints on Africa's Arts, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., November 4, 2017-ongoing
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place: label: Geography
content: Nigeria
title: label: Object Name
content: <I>iroke Ifa</I>
topic: label: Topic
content: Divination
label: Topic
content: Human
label: Topic
content: Male use
label: Topic
content: male
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content: National Museum of African Art Collection
label: Exhibition
content: Visionary: Viewpoints on Africa's Arts
label: On View
content: NMAfA, Second Level Gallery (2193)
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Harold Gray
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2015-9-24
objectType: label: Type
content: Sculpture
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Ivory
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 27.5 × 3.5 × 4.5 cm (10 13/16 × 1 3/8 × 1 3/4 in.)