object

Opon Ifá

Objects · Rituals · Traditions

The carved wooden tray of Yoruba Ifá divination. Not the Ifá tradition itself, and not a generic board-game.

Also known as Ifá tray

Yoruba Ifá

  • Opon Ifá is used in Yoruba Ifá.

    Bascom describes the opon Ifá as the carved tray on which Ifá lots are cast. Instrument of that ethnography’s Ifá, not cowrie-as-lot and not a tarot table.

    from William Bascom · Ifa Divination, 1969

    used in · sourced · culturally specific

sources

  • Ifa Divination · William Bascom

    William Bascom, Ifa Divination: Communication between Gods and Men in West Africa.