Culture Fix: African Divination Objects

The Fowler’s new curator of African arts, Gemma Rodrigues, examines a selection of African divination objects in Intersections. A close study of works— including a 19th century Opon Ifa, or Yoruba divination tray, a pair of Madebele Senufo divination figurines, and a 19th century Kashekesheke divining instrument from the Congo—reveals the diversity of African cosmological systems and differing concepts of fate, destiny, and causality.

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Culture Fix: African Divination Objects

Speaker: Gemma Rodrigues

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

12:00 pm (noon)

Intersections: World Arts, Local Lives exhibition gallery

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