Opele
This divining chain is made of eight split seed pods on a length of ten-stranded fibre string. Three half-cowrie shells are knotted to each end. Transferred from Weston-super-Mare Museum in 1974.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 136/1993/38
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Religion and magic
- Collection Area Region
- W
- Material
- cottoncowriesseed pods
- Common Name
- opele
- Simple Name
- chain
- Production County
- SW Nigeria
- Production Country
- Nigeria
