Art and Oracle


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Contents
Description
Objects
Eight categories
Exhibition by culture
Divination in S. Africa
Related works
Map
Essays
Glossary
Bibliography
Printing Instructions

ifty highlights of the "Art and Oracle" exhibition— from twenty-eight African cultures—are grouped here in eight categories.

Read a discussion of the categories as a whole, as well as descriptions of each category, adapted from the exhibition catalogue introduction by Alisa LaGamma.

Oracular Sculpture:
Figurative Divination Instruments

Visual Metaphors:
Ifa Divination Instruments

Dynamic Devices:
Kinetic Oracles

Visual Commentaries:
Sets of Divination Signs

Invoking the Spirits:
Musical Devices

Emblems of Enlightenment and Power:
Diviners' Insignias

Empowering the Individual:
Diviners' Prescriptions

NOTE: Objects on this page are not shown to scale.

The Iconography of Divination:
Monuments of Divine Insight

Oracular Sculpture: Figurative Divination Instruments

CATEGORY DESCRIPTION

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Visual Metaphors: Ifa Divination Instruments

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Dynamic Devices: Kinetic Oracles

CATEGORY DESCRIPTION

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Visual Commentaries: Sets of Divination Signs

CATEGORY DESCRIPTION

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Invoking the Spirits: Musical Devices

CATEGORY DESCRIPTION

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Emblems of Enlightenment and Power: Diviners' Insignias

CATEGORY DESCRIPTION

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Empowering the Individual: Diviners' Prescriptions

CATEGORY DESCRIPTION

36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43

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The Iconography of Divination: Monuments of Divine Insight

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