Diviner’s Bag (Àpò Ifá) | Yale University Art Gallery

late 19th–early 20th century

Medium: Cloth and glass beads
Dimensions: 9 1/2 × 10 × 1 5/8 in. (24.1 × 25.4 × 4.1 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Carol B. and Jerome P. Kenney
Accession Number: 2022.18.2
Geography: Nigeria
Culture: Yorùbá
Classification: Apparel/Costume
Disclaimer: Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance

Possibly Alfred Scheinberg (died 1992), New York [see note 1]; with Tambaran Gallery (Maureen Zarember, dealer), New York, early 1980s; sold to Carol Brock Kenney (born 1947) and Jerome Paul Kenney (1941–2019) New York, May 1991 (inv. no. 1111); given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2022

Note 1: Maureen Zarember states that the bag was most likely the property of Alfred Scheinberg, an African art dealer. In the early 1980s, Alfred Scheinberg and Maureen Zarember were actively buying works from several African traders who specialized in African beadwork (Maureen Zarember, email, June 3, 2021, curatorial object file).

Bibliography

James Green et al., Bámigbóyè: A Master Sculptor of the Yorùbá Tradition, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2022), 46, fig. 17

"Selected Acquisitions," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2022–23), 110–11, 112, 222, ill

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Object/Work type

bags (containers)

Subject

figures (representations)

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