Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Divination Object (gbaule)
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Divination Object (gbaule)
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Image View:
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Overall view from front
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Creator:
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unknown (Dan (Mande style))
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Location:
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repository: Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac (Paris, Île-de-France, France) 70.2008.68.1
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Location Note:
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From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso, Past and Present (2018 exhibition)
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Date:
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20th century; before 1962 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Dan (Mande style); Ivorian
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Style Period:
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Dan (Mande style)
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Work Type 1:
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assemblage (sculpture)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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cloth; brass; cowrie shells; leather; animal hair; wood; horn; teeth
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Measurements:
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43 cm (height) x 28 cm (width) x 12 cm (depth)
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Subjects:
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ritual object; African
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Description:
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From Côte d'Ivoire. Gbaule are divination objects used primarily by the Wee (Kru-speaking people of the Guinea coast) to determine the causes of illness and to identify evil forces. A diviner holds the gbaule while in a trance. He is asked questions, and the movement of the gbaule indicates a response. This example comes from the Dan (Yacouba), an ethnic group classified as peripheral Mandé, sharing the cultural patterns but not the language of the Krou (Kru). Dan live in the extreme west of Côte d'Ivoire and into Liberia. (Source: Le Fur, Yves, ed.; Through the Eyes of Picasso: Face to Face with African and Oceanic Art, Paris: Editions Flammarion, 2017 (978-2-08-020319-9))
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A3-AFRICAN-FAFFM-C-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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