id:			159023
accession number:	1995.23
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.23
updated:		2025-03-08 13:06:03.421000

Ifá diviner's necklace (òdìgbà Ifá), 1900s. Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, Yorùbá-style maker. Cloth, glass beads, cardboard, cotton, probably wool, and wood; overall: 49.5 cm (19 1/2 in.); bag: 21.5 x 19.6 cm (8 7/16 x 7 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1995.23

title:				Ifá diviner's necklace (òdìgbà Ifá)
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creation date:			1900s
creation date earliest:		1900
creation date latest:		1930
current location:		108C Akan & Yoruba
creditline:			Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture:	Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, Yorùbá-style maker
technique:	Cloth, glass beads, cardboard, cotton, probably wool, and wood
department:	African Art
collection:	African Art
type:		Implements
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measurements: Overall: 49.5 cm (19 1/2 in.); Bag: 21.5 x 19.6 cm (8 7/16 x 7 11/16 in.)
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PROVENANCE

	(Pace Primitive, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1995
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1995–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Young-Sanchez, Margaret. "The Cleveland Museum of Art." African Arts 30, no.1 (1997): 66-71, p. 70
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	Petridis, Constantijn. <em>South of the Sahara: selected works of African art. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. 23, p. 76 - 77
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