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

upplementing the images of works featured in the "Art and Oracle" exhibition is a selection of divination objects currently in South African collections:

   
 
 

Decorated Medicine Vessels of Tsonga and Shona Diviners
by Rayda Becker


   
 
 

Shona Headrest (Mutsago)
by Anitra Nettleton

   
 


Venda Divining Bowl (Ndilo)
by Anitra Nettleton

 
   

Shona and Venda Divining Dice
(Makakata
and Dzithangu)

by Anitra Nettleton

   
     

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